Selected Publications

Selected Publications (1995 to Present)

Books

(In Progress) Queer Psychoanalytics: Jacques Lacan and the 'Other' Jouissance.

Edited Books:

(2013) Co-edited with Angela Failler and Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst.  Skin, Culture and Psychoanalysis. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Chapters in Books:

(2013). “Touching Gender: Abjection and the Hygienic Imagination” In The Transgender Studies Reader 2 (Eds.) Susan Stryker and Aren Z. Aizura.  New York: Routledge. 

Papers in Refereed Journals:

(In Progress) "Queer Jouissance: Lacan's analytic of Sexuation"

(2008) "Sex in the Lesbian Teacher's Closet: The Hybrid Proliferation of Queers in School." Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 29(3): 387-399.

Co-authored with Heather Sykes. (2006). "Transsexual Bodies at the Olympics: The International Olympic Policy on Transsexual Athletes at the Athens Summer Games." Body and Society 12(3): 75-102. Reprinted in Queerly Canadian: An Introductory Reader in Sexuality Studies, edited by Maureen Fitzgerald and Scott Rayter. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2012.

(2006). "Spinsters, Schoolmarms, and Queers: The Unmarried Teacher in
Medicine and Psychoanalytic Theory." Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
27(4): 421-440.

(2005) "Sexing the Teacher: Voyeuristic Pleasure in the Amy Gehring Case," Social Text 82, 23 (1): 111-134. Reprinted in Queerly Canadian: An Introductory Reader in Sexuality Studies, edited by Maureen Fitzgerald and Scott Rayter. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2012.

(2005) "Female Teacher Gender and Sexuality in 20th Century Ontario, Canada." History of
Education Quarterly 45(2): 247-273.

(2004) "Upsetting Desires in the Classroom: School Sex Scandals and the Pedagogy of the Femme
Fatale." Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society (9):315-332.

(2003) "Teacher Transsexuality: The Illusion of Sexual Difference and the Idea of Adolescent Trauma. Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society 6 (3-4): 365-388.

(2003) "The Gender of Professionalism and Occupational Closure: The Management of Tenure Related Disputes by the 'Federation of Women Teacher's Associations of Ontario', 1918-1949." Gender and Education 15(1): 39-57.

(2001) "From a Belief in Biology as Destiny to an Environmental Perspective of Mental Health: The Impact of the Canadian National Committee for Mental Hygiene on Education in Ontario, Canada, 1920-50." Change: Transformation in Education: A Journal of Theory, Research, Policy and Practice, 4(1): 48-62.

(2001) "The Pedagogy of the Pastor: Social Studies Education in Early Twentieth Century Canada." Canadian Journal of Education. 26(4): 405-421.

(1998) "The Heterosexualization of the Ontario Woman Teacher in the Post-war Period." Canadian Women's Studies/les cahiers de la femme 18(1): 55-69. Reprinted in Nuzhat Amin et al. (1999) (eds.), Canadian Woman Studies: An Introductory Reader, Toronto, Inanna publications and Education Inc., pp. 387-395.

Papers in Non-Refereed Journals

(2011) "You are where you urinate" Gay and Lesbian Review. 18(4): 18-20.

Book Reviews:

[Forthcoming September 2014 (vol. 22, no. 3)] Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65 by Cameron Duder. Journal of the History of Sexuality.

(2012) Author replies to critics in review of Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination in Gender, Place and Culture, Vol. 19, No. 4.

(2008) Romance in the Ivory Tower by Paul R. Abramson. Teacher's College Press.

(1998) Dangerous Territories: Struggles for Difference and Equality in Education by Leslie G. Roman and Linda Eyre. Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme 17(4): 149.

(1995) Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex by Judith Butler. Critical Sociology 21(3): 144-147.

Review Essays:

(2002) "The Pedagogy of Texts on Transgendered Subjects." International Journal of Cultural Studies 5(4): 499-506.

Non-Refereed Media Publications:

(April 5-11, 2007) "No textbook crime: Teacher-teen affairs are unprofessional but not always criminal." Now, Issue 1315, Vol. 26, No. 31.

(March 29, 2007) "Student/teacher relationships: Professional misconduct or sex crime?" XTRA, No.585, p. 12.

(1996) "The Prom You Never Had, The Prom You Always Wanted: For Lesbian and Gay Youth." Siren 1, 3: 3-4.

Public Art and Theater Projects:

[Forthcoming in June 2014] Queer Bathroom Monologues.  Professional production at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, 2013-2014, official season. 

[Forthcoming in March 2013] Queer Bathroom Monologues.  Performance ethnography read at Indiana University-Purdue University.

(2013) Queer Bathroom Monologues.  Performance ethnography read at the Emergence Queer Arts Festival, Pride Western, London, February 1, sponsored by the University of Western Ontario.

(2012) Queer Bathroom Monologues.  Performance ethnography read at the Center for the Arts, Mainstage Theatre, Towson University, Baltimore, Maryland, November 12, sponsored by TU Center for Student Diversity; the LGBTQA Pride Leadership camp in Nashville, July 17, sponsored by the Iron Crow Theatre Company in Baltimore Maryland.

(2012) Queer Bathroom Monologues. Performance ethnography (play) staged at George Brown College, Toronto, March 22 (Invited); the ‘Walking the Talk: Human Rights in Higher Education’ conference sponsored by the Canadian Association for the Prevention of Discrimination and Harassment in Higher Education, Toronto, May 4 (Invited); the Canadian Sociological Association annual meeting, SSHRC Congress, as a special event following the President’s reception, Wilfrid Laurier University, May 31st.