Postes occupés

2007-2008

Chercheur-se postdoctoral-e

Biographie

Research Project:

Much of my graduate work in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University, Montréal, revolved around that complex terrain we call «community’» exploring how we go about creating connections and building relationships through the practices we enact, initiate or defy. Positing community as an ever-evolving and refreshingly ephemeral terrain, my doctoral dissertation – «Evoking Affect, Becoming Movement: From Writing that Skates to the Swaggering Midlife Female Trick ‘Skater’» looked at how recreational ice skaters create a rhythmic dialogue with others and their immediate environment as they move their bodies ‘in concert’ through the time and space of the urban public skating rink, though without any fixed goal, agenda, or choreography. A key challenge of this research was to develop an experimental ethnographic practice that allowed me to gather the traces of these ‘disorganized’ sporting bodies and their verbal and physical conversations as they circulated out there on the ice, and then transform these fragments into a poetic style of academic prose that quite literally skated. A driving impetus was to show how midlife women could engage in established sporting activities ‘differently,’ and in so doing, complicate gendered and ageist attitudes and assumptions.

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Publications

«Haptic Tales: Researching and Writing Movement through the Female Skating Body,» in Lammer, Christina and Catherin Pilcher and Kim Sawchuk (Eds.) Verkoerperungen/Embodiment, Vienna: Loecker Verlag, 2007, 249-265.

«In-between Spaces in Sport: Corporeal Re-creation and the Trick Skater,» in Sheridan, Heather et al (Eds.) Sporting Reflections: Some Philosophical Perspectives, Aachen: Meyer & Meyer, 2007, 178-188.

Review of The Sound of One Voice: Eugene Forsey and His Letters to the Press (J.E. Hodgetts, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000), Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 26, no.3, 2001.