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PhD supervisor: Bob Mills听
Working title for PhD: 鈥楩orsaken Femininities: The Long History of Femininity from Medieval to Modern and from Monstrous to Divine鈥�

My dissertation puts contemporary drag artists in conversation with medieval performances of gender. It aims to demonstrate the disservice done to the plurality of both the medieval period and modern queer communities when 鈥榝emale鈥� is treated as a prerequisite of femininity by art historical frameworks. Binary frameworks cannot fully account for the medieval feminine as it manifests in effeminate sodomites and feminine sluts, maternal Christ figures and male Sponsa Christi, the oft-erased femmes in courtly romances or Saint Margaret who cuts herself free from a dragon鈥檚 stomach while protecting her virginity. Contemporary drag offers us a language with which these medieval performances of gender can be better understood. The medieval itself鈥攊n its ambiguous state of 鈥榩remodernity鈥欌�攈olds unique potential as a period from which many contemporary ideologies stem and simultaneously as a period with constructions of gender that do not justify contemporary binary categorizations with historical precedent.

Conference Papers and Presentations听

• April 2021: Paper: 鈥淧leasure and the Difference it Makes: Remediatory Queer Digital Archiving for Sensual Sodomites and Contemporary Imagineers,鈥� University of Victoria, AHA! (Art Historians and Alumni) Seminar
• July 2020: Paper: 鈥淩emediating Pleasure(s) in the Queer Digital Archive: Visual Knowledge Production and 鈥業ntra-Action鈥� in Medieval Material and Contemporary Digital Culture,鈥� York University, Humanities Graduate Student Association, 鈥淒esigning the Self鈥� HUGSA Conference
• March 2020: Paper: 鈥淒esigning Desire: The Power of Queering and Telling Premodern Lesbian Herstories,鈥� University of Victoria, German, Slavic, and Holocaust Studies, 鈥淚dentity, Gender, Ideology,鈥� Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
• January 2020: Paper: 鈥淟esbian Possibilities: Queer Desire in Premodern France,鈥� University of Victoria, Art History and Visual Studies 鈥淰isual Impetus鈥� Graduate Conference

Media Appearances and Outreach Work听

I am currently the curator of the digital archive , which was founded by Casey Hoke in 2017. I am also very excited to be volunteering with the Lesbian Herstory Archive as an interviewer for their upcoming Lesbian Elders Oral Herstory Project.听

Awards

• 2020 - University of Victoria, M.A. & D.E. Breckenridge Graduate Award
• 2019 - Robert S. & Muriel A. Raguin Graduate Scholarship
• 2019 - The Flora Hamilton Burns Graduate Fellowship 听
• 2019 - University of Victoria Fellowship
• 2019 - University of Victoria Graduate Award
• 2017 - University of Victoria Nominee for the Rhodes Scholarship
• 2017 - Nellie Holroyd Scholarship in Art History
• 2017 - Patricia Burns Keir Prize in Canadian Art
• 2016-2017 - Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award
• 2016-2017 - Presidential Scholarship
• 2016-2017 - Lindisfarne Scholarship
• 2014-2015 - University of Victoria Entrance Scholarship
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