My sabbatical official ends August 31, 2011. Until then, I continue to reside in California where I am writing a proposal for my book project on the 1964 Kitty Genovese Murder, writing an article about films related to the Genovese case and attending the NEH Summer Institute in Digital Humanities and American Studies at USC in Los Angeles, July 18-August 11.
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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