Faculty - Meagher

Dr. Michelle MeagherMichelle Meagher

Assistant Professor
Associate Chair - Undergraduate Programs

Office: 1-02C Assiniboia Hall, Phone: 492-7518
Email: michelle.meagher@ualberta.ca 

Degrees

BA, Women's Studies (University of Alberta)
MA, Interdisciplinary Humanities: The Body and Representation (University of Reading, UK)
PhD, Cultural Studies (George Mason University, USA)

Research

My research is broadly concerned with making connections between feminist cultural production and feminist cultural theory. I’m particularly interested in feminist and feminine self-representation in contemporary art practices. I’m currently working on a project titled The Look of Feminist Self-Portraiture: Visual Self-Representation by Women Artists, which addresses self-imaging practices within feminist cultural production in North America and since the beginning of the second wave.

Teaching

Fall 2011
WST 101 Representations of Girls and Women

Winter 2012
WST320 Popular Culture/Feminist Culture
WST 498 Feminism and Art: Theory, Practice, Politics

Selected Publications

2011. “Telling Stories about Feminist Art” Feminist Theory 12.3 (read it here)

2011. “On the Loss of Feminism (review of Angela McRobbie’s Aftermath of Feminism)” Reviews in Cultural Theory.

2011. Review of Cherise Smith’s Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deveare Smith. Liminalities. (read it here)

2009. “Final Girls: Appropriation, Identification, and Fluidity in  Cindy Sherman’s Office Killer.” In Corinn Columpar and Sophie Mayer (eds.) There She Goes: Feminist Filmmaking and Beyond. Detroit: Wayne State University Press  (find it here)

2008. “Review of Regis Durand's Cindy Sherman and Johanna Burton's Cindy Sherman)” Woman’s Art Journal (read it here)

2008. “Improvisation Within a Scene of Constraint: Cindy Sherman’s Serial Self-Portraiture.” Body and Society 13:4 (read it here) 

2003. “Jenny Saville and a Feminist Aesthetics of Disgust.” Hypatia: Special Issue, Women, Art, and Aesthetics 18:4 (read it here)

2002. “Would the Real Cindy Sherman Please Stand Up? Encounters Between Cindy Sherman and Feminist Art Theory.” Women: A Cultural Review 13:1