My teaching philosophy is influenced by bell hooks’ conceptualization of an engaged pedagogy. I believe that there should be pleasure in the classroom, and that higher learning is fundamentally a subversive and liberatory endeavour. I am committed to radical social justice, and approach the classroom as an intellectual community where collaborative learning about the intersectional functioning of misogyny, white supremacy, cissexism, ableism, classism, colonization, and imperialism takes place.

I aim to expose students to social movements working to dismantle these oppressive systems as not only activist spaces, but places where knowledge is created and exchanged. My courses engage with theory produced within academia, but also that which is produced outside its walls.

In 2020, I was awarded the Senate Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Currently, I teach:

• WGST 1172 Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies

• WGST 2207 Contemporary Issues in WGST

  • Topics: Reproductive Justice; Who’s Afraid of Gender?

• WGST 2211 Gender, Sexuality and Health

• WGST 2239 Gender, Sexuality and Popular Culture

• WGST 3345 Sex, Gender and the Body

• WGST 3301 Feminist Thought

• WGST 3310 Decolonizing Feminisms

• WGST 3311 Gender, Race and Power

• WGST 4401 Advanced Studies in Feminist Theories

  • Topics: Emergent Strategies