Part-Time Faculty

Lauren Auger

Lauren Auger

Assistant Professor

Email: lauger3@uwo.ca

Office: Lawson Hall

Dr. Lauren Beth Auger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. She is an oral historian and had the privilege of interviewing eighteen war bride veterans for her doctoral work.

Research Interest/Specialization

Lauren's research interests are women, gender, sexuality, love, and war. She is particularly interested in the ways in which social understandings of gender and sexuality impact women’s involvement in war and public perceptions of women’s roles in wartime. She is also interested in how discourses regarding gender and sexuality influence how women remember their war service and how women see themselves as veterans.

Teaching

GSWS 2160A, 2162B, 2275F, 2220E, 2283G

Dr. Lauren Beth Auger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. She is an oral historian and had the privilege of interviewing eighteen war bride veterans for her doctoral work.

Megan Blair

Megan Blair

Assistant Professor

Email: mblair56@uwo.ca

Office: Lawson Hall

Megan recently completed her PhD in History at the University of Waterloo. Her dissertation examined the involvement of teenage girls in feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s. More broadly, Megan is interested in the intersection of age and gender in social and political movements in Canada.

Research Interest/Specialization

Canadian women's & gender history; the history of childhood and youth; girlhood studies; the history of feminism & social movements

Teaching

GSWS 2270A

Megan recently completed her PhD in History at the University of Waterloo. Her dissertation examined the involvement of teenage girls in feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s. More broadly, Megan is interested in the intersection of age and gender in social and political movements in Canada.

Andrea Burke

Andrea Burke

Instructor

Email: aburke46@uwo.ca

Office: Lawson Hall

Andrea (she/her) is a PhD Candidate at the GSWS department studying the experiences of racialized and immigrant women engaged in essential work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Research Interest/Specialization

Gender inequality, labour studies, social reproductive labour, public policy, feminist political economy, gender-based violence, girlhood studies, transnational feminism, international development, non-profit work and organizations, health care work, health crises and crisis response, housing policy, racial disparities, and Canadian immigration.

Teaching

GSWS 1022G, 2225F

Andrea (she/her) is a PhD Candidate at the GSWS department studying the experiences of racialized and immigrant women engaged in essential work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Anmol Dutta

Anmol Dutta

Instructor

Email: adutta24@uwo.ca

Office: Lawson Hall

Anmol Dutta is a Lecturer in both GSWS and Film Studies. She is currently completing her PhD dissertation in English Studies on cultural identity at the intersection of caste, gender, and religion in Indian originals on Netflix.

Research Interest/Specialization

Anmol specializes in Media and Cultural Studies, Queer/Feminist cinemas, Postcolonial theory, South Asian popular culture, and Stand-up comedy and activism. She has published articles, book chapters and contributed to various public fora via invited interviews and guest talks on religion and representation in media, mainstream Hindi cinema, Netflix and censorial media regimes, as well as stand-up comedy.

Teaching

GSWS 2168B, 3330G

Anmol Dutta is a Lecturer in both GSWS and Film Studies. She is currently completing her PhD dissertation in English Studies on cultural identity at the intersection of caste, gender, and religion in Indian originals on Netflix.

Nikki Edwards

Nikki Edwards

Instructor

Email: nedwar7@uwo.ca

Office: Lawson Hall

Teaching

GSWS 2161B Women and Popular Culture, GSWS 2163A Sex Education

Jacob Evoy

Jacob Evoy

Instructor

Email: jevoy2@uwo.ca

Office: Lawson Hall

Jacob (they/them/their) is a Ph.D. candidate completing a collaborative degree in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies as well as Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction.

Research Interest/Specialization

Queer theory, queer history, Holocaust and genocide studies, intergenerational trauma, history of the AIDS epidemic, pop culture.

Teaching

GSWS 1023G, 2164A, 3163G

Jacob (they/them/their) is a Ph.D. candidate completing a collaborative degree in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies as well as Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction.

Amy Keating

Amy Keating

Instructor

Email: akeatin@uwo.ca

Office: Lawson Hall

Amy is a PhD Candidate in GSWS. Their research explores how queer art and aesthetics can foster communities of queer joy and belonging.

Research Interest/Specialization

Queer theory, queer temporality, community, queer art and aesthetics, affect theory, phenomenology, performance

Teaching

GSWS 2167B Queer Pop Culture

Amy is a PhD Candidate in GSWS. Their research explores how queer art and aesthetics can foster communities of queer joy and belonging.

Elk Paauw

Elk Paauw

Lecturer

Email: epaauw@uwo.ca

Office: Lawson Hall

Elk (he/him) is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, and teaches in both GSWS and Film Studies.

Research Interest/Specialization

Trans and crip/queer theory, temporality, & media studies (comics & animation)

Teaching

GSWS 2274G Intro to Trans Studies

Elk (he/him) is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, and teaches in both GSWS and Film Studies.