 | Trish Salah email: trish.salah@utoronto.ca Department: Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education | |
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Academic History Ph.D. English Literature, York University 2009 M.A. English & Creative Writing, Concordia University 1994 B.A. English & Creative Writing, Concordia University 1992 Research Overview Trish’s research focuses on representations of race, nation, sexuality, and gender in popular culture (genre fiction, film and television, digital media), the pedagogy of contemporary queer and transgender cultural production, and neo-orientalist and imperialist rhetorics within transnational activism around gender and sexuality. Teaching Overview Trish is currently a Lecturer in HSSSJE at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and an adjunct professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. Her courses at OISE include Globalization and Transnationality: Feminist Perspectives; Marginality and the Politics of Resistance; Social Theories of the Body and Gender, Ethics and Education: Philosophical Issues. She has previously taught courses in Departments of English, Sociology, and Women’s and Gender Studies. Representative courses include 20th Century Writing by Women; Feminism and Psychoanalysis; Gender, Globalization, Decolonization; Feminist Theory and Popular Culture; Media and Society; Queer and Transgender Literatures; Transsexual and Transgender Cultural Production. Professional Activities 2012-2013 Scholarship and Awards Committee, Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Social Justice Education, OISE, University of Toronto 2011-2012 Provost’s Advisory Committee on Gender and Sexual Diversity, Working Group on the Neil Richards Collection of Gender and Sexual Diversity, Working Group on Queer and Sexuality Studies Stream, Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Program (in development), University of Saskatchewan 2010 Coordinating Committee, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University 2005-2010 Forum Committee, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University Representative Publications Books: Wanting In Arabic: Poems. Toronto: Tsar Publications, 2002. Edited Volumes: Canadian Review of American Studies. “Special Issue on Anne-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees.” Co-edited with Sara Matthews and Dina Georgis. 35.2 (2005). Scholarly Articles, Refereed: “From Fans to Activists: Popular Feminism enlists in ‘The War on Terror’.” Contested Imaginaries: Reading Muslim Women and Muslim Women Reading Back. Lisa Taylor and Jasmin Zine, eds. Palgrave: in press. (21 pages) “Working for Change: Sex Workers in the Union Struggle.” with J. Clamen and K. Gillies. Selling Sex. Emily van der Meulen, Elya M. Durisin, and Victoria Love eds. Vancouver: UBC Press, in press. (25 pages) “An-Identity Poetics and Feminist Artist-Run Centers.” Féminismes électriques. Leila Pourtavaf, ed. Montreal: Gallérie La Centrale, 2012: 81-106. “Backlash to the Future: Re/Inscribing Transsexuality as Fundamentalism.” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 25 (Spring 2011): 212-222. Prose and Poetry: “Schrebergarden” excerpts. The Journal of Medical Humanities. (Summer 2012): in press. (6 pages) “After Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘Beyond Identification’,” “Psychic Fair,” “Tenebrae as a Girl.” Feminist Studies. 37.2 (Fall 2011): 329-334. Readings & Talks: “Troubling the Sexual Politics of Transnational Feminist Activism.” Canadian Association for Women’s Studies. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Montreal, May 29, 2012. Ancestors: A Queer/Trans Writers of Color Reading. Lambda Literary Foundation and The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 1, 2012. Research Grants and Contracts2012-2015 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant for “Towards a Transgender Minor Literature” Principal Investigator 2004 Canada Council Writing and Publishing Grant 2004 Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grant Honours and Awards 2012 Avenue Community Centre, Saskatoon, SK. Affinity Credit Union LGBTT Community Service Award |
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