Part-Time Faculty

Lauren Auger

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: 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
Biography: Dr. Lauren Beth Auger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. Her PhD project ‘That’s My Story.’ Unpacking Canadian War Bride Veterans’ Life Histories (2017) completed at the University of Brighton in Brighton, United Kingdom focused on women who served in the British women’s military auxiliaries during the Second World War who came to Canada as war brides. Lauren is an oral historian and had the privilege of interviewing eighteen war bride veterans for her doctoral work. She teaches courses focused on the following topics: gender, sexuality, desire, intimate relations, embodiment, body image, feminist ways of knowing, and feminist research approaches.

Megan Blair

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Canadian women's & gender history; the history of childhood and youth; girlhood studies; the history of feminism & social movements
Teaching: GSWS 2270A
Biography: 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

Instructor

Research Interests / Specializations: 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
Biography: 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. She is also engaged in scholarship on decent work, sex work, violence prevention, international development, gender theory, public policy, and social equity. She also has experience in crisis intervention and gender-based violence prevention.

Anmol Dutta

Instructor

Research Interests / Specializations: 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 sand-up comedy.
Teaching: GSWS 2168B and GSWS 3330G
Biography: Anmol Dutta is a Lecturer in Film Studies and Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies at Western University, Canada. 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. She teaches courses in race and popular culture, feminist stand-up comedy, and Bollywood Cinema.

Nikki Edwards

Instructor

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

Jacob Evoy

Instructor

Research Interests / Specializations: Queer theory, queer history, Holocaust and genocide studies, intergenerational trauma, history of the AIDS epidemic, pop culture.
Teaching: GSWS 1023G, 2164A, 3163G
Biography: 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.. Jacob's dissertation is an examination of non-normative sexualities and intergenerational trauma. Their dissertation is entitled: "Queer(ing) Post-Holocaust Experiences: An Oral History of LGBTQ+ Children of Holocaust Survivors."

Amy Keating

Instructor

Research Interests / Specializations: Queer theory, queer temporality, community, queer art and aesthetics, affect theory, phenomenology, performance
Teaching: GSWS 2167B Queer Pop Culture
Biography: Amy is a PhD Candidate in the GSWS department. Their research explores how queer art and aesthetics can foster communities of queer joy and belonging

Elk Paauw

Lecturer

Research Interests / Specializations: Trans and crip/queer theory, temporality, & media studies (comics & animation)
Teaching: GSWS 2274G Intro to Trans Studies
Biography: Elk (he/him) is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism here at Western, and also teaches in the Film Department. His dissertation is an autotheory comic on trans psychoanalysis. You can check out his comics and scholarship at [www.elkpapa.com]elkpapa.com.