Academic Work
Kate holds a PhD from the Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto. Kate’s doctoral dissertation At the Mouth of the River: Shame, Secrecy and Intergenerational Trauma engages theories of intergenerational trauma to explore the psychic dynamics of loss and memory in Newfoundland. This inquiry works to unearth the complex historic and social conditions that contextualize ongoing legacies of social injury in Newfoundland through an aesthetic archive of film, visual art and folklore. Kate is interested in autoethnographic methodologies that engage with creative methods.
Kate is currently a post doctoral fellow at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.
kate.lahey [at] mail.utoronto.ca
Academic History
PhD Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto (2023).
MA War Studies, King’s College London (2015).
MA English Literature, Memorial University of Newfoundland (2016).
BA English and Social Theory, York University (2014).
Teaching
Course Instructor GNDR1005: Critical Reading and Writing: Identities and Difference, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Fall 2022).
Course Instructor SOCI2100: Social Inequality, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Fall 2022).
Teaching Assistant WGS370: Utopian Visions, Activist Realities, University of Toronto (Fall 2022).
Course Instructor GNDR1000: Introduction to Gender Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Summer 2022).
Course Instructor GNDR6403: Feminism and Social Change, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Winter 2022).
Course Instructor GNDR3003: Women’s Life Stories, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Winter 2022).
Course Instructor GNDR3008: Feminist Practices and Global Change, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Fall 2021).
Course Instructor GNDR2006: Gender and Sexualities, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Fall 2021).
Teaching Assistant WGS374: Gender and Sexualities, University of Toronto (Fall 2021).
Course Instructor WGS397: The Politics of Girlhood, University of Toronto (Summer 2021).
Course Instructor GNDR3005: Feminist Texts, Theories and Histories, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Winter 2021).
Teaching Assistant WGS369: Studies in Postcolonialism, University of Toronto (Fall 2020).
Teaching Assistant WGS271: Pop Culture, University of Toronto (Fall/Winter 2020-2021).
Teaching Assistant WGS160: Introduction to Gender Studies, University of Toronto (2017-2018).
Guest Lectures
Guest Lecture, Folklore 6703: Folklore and Gender. Memorial University of Newfoundland. 10 November 2021.
Guest Lecture, WGS271: Gender in Popular Culture. Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto. August 2021.
Guest Lecture, GNDR 3008. Memorial University of Newfoundland. 24 September 2020.
Awards
University of Toronto Graduate Fellowship Tuition Award (2017-present)
University of Toronto Graduate Fellowship Stipend Award (2017-present)
University of Toronto Admission Award (2017)
WGSRF Graduate Essay Award Nominee (2016)
Publications
“The Impossibility of a Future in the Absence of a Past: Drifting in the In-Between” co-authored with Dr. Sonja Boon, Atlantis Journal Vol 4 No 1 (2019).
Conference Presentations
“How we look after: Precarious futures and feminist pedagogies for collective becoming.” Panel presentation with Daze Jefferies and Krysta Fitzpatrick. Teaching and Learning Conference. Virtual. May 4-5, 2022.
Invited guest with Ivan Emke, Catherine MacLellan, and Owe Ronstrom: “Island Songs: Making Music in the Middle of Somewhere.” International Small Islands Studies Association Conference. Virtual. June 14-18, 2021.
“Held Hands: Intergenerational Memory, Queer Performance, and Trigger Mitts.” Annual conference of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Virtual. June 2-7, 2021.
“Intergenerational Trauma and Material Culture in Outport Newfoundland.” Department of Gender Studies. Memorial University of Newfoundland. 27 March 2020. Postponed due to COVID-19.
“Making Secrets: Intergenerational Trauma, Shame and Material Culture in Outport Newfoundland.” Folklore Studies Association of Canada Conference. Memorial University of Newfoundland. 2019.
“The Impossibility of a Future in the Absence of a Past: Drifting in the In-Between.” Philosophia Conference. Memorial University of Newfoundland. 2019.
“In-Between-ness: Intimacy, Encounters and Affect.” Women and Gender Studies et Recherches Feministes. University of Alberta. 2016.
“Trauma, Affect and Haunting: Negotiating Ordinary Life After Catastrophe.” Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Conference. Memorial University of Newfoundland. 2016.