Museum Queeries Edited Volume
Critics have made clear that museums often uphold national identities and histories. Less acknowledged are the ways they also tacitly encode hetero- and cis-normative representations of the polity and public culture. Museum Queeries: Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, and LGBTTQ* Interventions into Museums and Curation moves beyond representations of gender and sexuality to challenge white privilege, racism, and settler colonialism as they intertwine with transphobia and homophobia in museum and curatorial spaces.
team members
Angela Failler
Angela Failler, PhD is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Canada Research Chair in Culture and Public Memory at U. Winnipeg, where she is also Director of the Centre for Research in Cultural Studies. Her research is focused on how practices of culture and public memory are used to grapple with the ongoing effects of historical violence and injustice. She leads a long-term study on public memory of the 1985 Air India Bombings, and co-leads the Museum Queeries cluster.
Role: Co-Investigator + Coordinating Committee
Cluster: Museum Queeries
Michelle McGeough
Michelle McGeough, PhD (Métis/Cree) is originally from Amiskwaciwâskahikan, in the treaty six region of what is currently referred to as Canada. Prior to accepting her current position as an Assistant Professor at Concordia University, she taught at the University of British Columbia. Dr. McGeough received her PhD in Indigenous Art Histories from the University of New Mexico. Her research interests have focused on the Indigenous two-spirit/Indigiqueer identity.
Role: Co-Investigator
Cluster: Museum Queeries
Heather Milne
Heather Milne, PhD is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Winnipeg and one of the co-leads of the Museum Queeries research cluster. Her teaching and research interests focus on queer theory, feminist theory, cultural studies, as well as poetry and poetics. She is the author of Poetry Matters: Neoliberalism, Affect and the Posthuman in Twenty First Century North American Feminist Poetics. She is very interested in how museums navigate their relationship to neoliberalism and homonationalism.
Role: Co-Investigator
Cluster: Museum Queeries
Sabrina Mark
Sabrina Mark works as the Research Coordinator for the Centre for Research in Cultural Studies (CRiCS) at the University of Winnipeg. She obtained her PhD from the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba. Her dissertation focused on mobility and the imagined roles of girls and women in nation-building in popular early twentieth-century girls’ novels. Her other research interests include children’s literature, critical race theory, textual depictions of dress, and the fiction of L.M. Montgomery.
Role: Research Assistant
Cluster: Museum Queeries