Karen Ruddy is currently teaching POL501: Women, Power, and Politics in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson. She holds a M.A. in Social and Political Thought from York University and a B.A. in Political Studies from Queen’s University. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University. Karen’s intellectual foundation and research agenda are interdisciplinary in orientation, and are situated at the intersection of feminist, critical race, postcolonial, adult education, and global political economy scholarship. Her dissertation research brings these areas together in a study of the how the issue of women’s literacy has been taken up within colonial and neo-imperial imaginaries of domination and anti-colonial and postcolonial imaginaries of decolonization. Her research interests also include postcolonial melancholia and the problem of colonial amnesia in white settler states, racialized sexualities and the erotics of colonial power, global cities, and the transnational politics of feminist knowledge production and cultural practice. Karen is also an instructor in the Department of Women’s Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she teaches a course on Gender, Race, and Transnationalism, and is a Writing Instructor at the University of Toronto. She has also worked at the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation as a policy analyst and advocate and in the AIDS Division of Health Canada as a researcher. Publications:
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