New Faculty Members

Laura PARISI - B.A. (Vermont), M.A. (Arizona), Ph.D. (Arizona)
Assistant Professor

lparisi@uvic.ca
(250) 472-4277

Research interests:
  • - Feminist International Relations
  • - Gender and Human Rights, International Law, and Organizations
  • - Transnational feminism
  • - Gender and International (and Comparative) Political Economy with an emphasis on globalization studies
  • - Gender, Development and Environment
  • - Feminist and Critical Political Theory
Jean Bobby NOBLE - B.A.(Alberta), M.A. (Alberta), Ph.D. (York)
Assistant Professor

jbnoble@uvic.ca
(250) 721-7293
B123 Clearihue

Research interests:
  • - Gender and Sexuality
  • - Queer Theory
  • - Lesbian Studies
  • - Critical Studies in (Anti-Racist)Whiteness
  • - Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
  • - Transsexuality, esp. Transgendered and FTM Transsexual Masculinity
  • - Media and Popular Culture
  • - Constructions of Masculinity

Dr. Jean Bobby Noble (PhD, York University) accepted a faculty position with us in July 2004, hailing most recently from McMaster Universityâs Critical Theory and Cultural Studies program. He has also taught gender studies at Queen's University. Jean will offer courses in the areas of sexuality studies, queer theory, transsexuality and transgender theory, masculinity studies and popular culture. He is the author of 2 books to date: the recently published Masculinities Without Men? (University of British Columbia Press, Winter 2004), selected as a Choice Outstanding Title, 2004; and co-editor of The Drag King Anthology, a 2004 Lambda Literary Finalist (Haworth Press 2003). Jean has a new book forthcoming Sons of the Movement: FTM's Risking In-coherence in a Post-Queer Cultural Landscape (Toronto: Women's Press, 2006) and is currently working on a new Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funded book-length study called Boy Kings: Canada's Drag Kings and Masculinities in Performance. He is also media-spokesperson, secretary and Past-President of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association.

Book Reviews Editor, Torquere: Journal of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Assoc. http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~torquere/
Secretary and Past-President, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Assoc. http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~clgsa/