My sabbatical ended on August 31st and I am back in residence at McGill University. On September 1st I took up a new position at McGill as Director of the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies. In addition to learning how to be an administrator and hosting fantastic speakers like Heather Love and Judy Norsigian (of Our Bodies Ourselves), we’re in the process of planning events for next year, including a symposium on Girls Studies. I continue to research the 1964 Kitty Genovese case. This fall I’m studying the court transcripts and giving three related talks. I am teaching the graduate course COMS 633: Feminist Media Studies.
William Dawson Scholar of Feminist Media Studies, McGill University
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I teach Communication Studies and Women's Studies at McGill University. I do research in feminist media studies, political theory, and cultural studies of journalism, crime and violence.
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Upcoming and Recent Talks
- 22 March 2012, “Gender Violence, the Problem of Bystanding and the Covert Seeing Eye of Intervention” Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Boston, MA.
- 20 January 2012, “What Makes a Case? Cultural Legacies of the 1964 Kitty Genovese Murder and the Construction of the Bystander Problem,” Department of Communication Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON.
- 6 December 2011, IGSF Esquisses Lecture Series, 12:30pm, Montreal, QC, “What Makes a Case? A Feminist Intervention into the Kitty Genovese Murder and the Construction of the Bystander Problem.”
- 29 November 2011, IPLAI Great Trials Public Talk, Atwater Public Library, 5:30 pm, Montreal, QC, “The Trial of Winston Moseley.”
- 4-6 November 2011, Canadian Cultural Studies Association Conference, Montreal, QC, “A Historical Case of Media Witnessing: The 1964 Kitty Genovese Murder.”
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