Dr. Corrie Scott
Joint Chair in Women鈥檚 Studies (JCWS)
Dr. Corrie Scott is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies (IFGS) at the University of Ottawa, where, since 2011, she has been a very active community member. She holds a PhD in Lettres fran莽aises with a specialization in Women鈥檚 Studies from the University of Toronto (2011). While at the University of Toronto, she met fellow doctoral students, (now an Associate Professor of French at McMaster) and (now an Associate Professor of Fashion at TMU), who have become her life-long bosom buddies. She struggled to complete her thesis while caring for her son who was born around the same time as she wrote chapter four, but she got there in the end thanks to support from her family. Dr. Scott鈥檚 PhD thesis was transformed, with great difficulty, into a book entitled, , published in 2014 with 脡ditions XYZ, the year her daughter was born. It was a busy, exhausting, and fruitful time in her life.
Before becoming a professor at the University of Ottawa, she was a course instructor in Women and Gender Studies at 杏吧原创 University (now FIST), where she met some of her most cherished forever friends, like Dr. Rena Bivens (now an Associate Professor in Communication and Media Studies at 杏吧原创) and Dr. Aubrey Anable (now an Associate Professor in Film Studies). At uOttawa, Dr. Scott teaches undergraduate classes and graduate seminars in both French and English. She particularly loves teaching FEM1100 Women, Gender, Feminism: An Introduction, which she has taught every year for 15 years. She also enjoys teaching FEM5300/5700 Feminist Theories/Th茅ories f茅ministes and FEM8501/8501 Professional PhD seminar. Like many other professors at the Institute, Professor Scott has greatly benefited from the generous mentorship of Dr. throughout her years at uOttawa. She also supervises both MA and PhD students, including her first PhD student, Dr. , who鈥檚 thesis became an book entitled (UBC Press). Professor Scott has also been a regular contributor to public debates, publishing op eds in Le Devoir (, ), The Conversation () and the Ottawa Citizen (), among others. Alongside many of her IFGS colleagues, she has been involved in campus activism promoting , and .
She is an invited columnist at the scholarly journal Voix et Images where she writes about queer studies in Quebec. For example, her chronique, 鈥溾, is set to appear in the most recent volume of the journal. She is also a member of the advisory board for the series , published by the Edinburgh University Press. And she was a long-time Associate Member of the . Another career highlight was being invited to participate in an educational gathering at Kahnaw谩:ke, Mohawk Territory/QB, in which a dozen scholars from across Canada listened to Mohawk Elders, Knowledge Keepers, scholars, and artists share their teachings as part of a SSHRC funded project (鈥溾, Lauren Beck and David Garneau). Although there never seems to be enough time to do everything that she wants to do, Dr. Scott is grateful to have been included in these different forums.
Over the years, Professor Scott has written about the works of authors like An Antane Kapesh, Nelly Arcan, Dany Laferri猫re, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Sergio Kokis, Tomson Highway, Marie-Claire Blais, Virginia P茅s茅map茅o Bordeleau, Pierre Valli猫res, Ying Chen, F茅lix-Antoine Savard, Mich猫le Lalonde, Michel Jean, Lionel Groulx, Georges Sioui, Jean D茅sy, Louis Hamelin, V茅ronik Picard Yokwas Y盲nenda鈥檡eh and Anya Nousri. Although she mostly publishes in French, she has occasionally written articles in English, like, 鈥溾, which appeared in Ethnic and Racial Studies, and more recently, 鈥溾, which appeared in Studies in Canadian Literature. In French, Dr. Scott has written about the role that certain forms of Qu茅b茅cois masculinity play in the construction of 鈥渕茅tis鈥 discourse (鈥溾, La revue d鈥櫭﹖udes autochtones, 2024). And she is particularly proud of her contribution to a 2022 special issue of Voix plurielles, 鈥溾, in which she examines works by several Indigenous writers who explicitly see and name whiteness with curiosity, compassion, and anger.
If there is a common thread running through Dr. Scott鈥檚 work, it is her commitment to developing anticolonial reading and writing practices, both in and out of the classroom. The methodological 鈥渨ays of being鈥 (Liboiron 2021) that have guided her research and pedagogy will continue to shape her work as she takes on this Joint Chair project. For example, she will further wrestle with what it means to be invested in anticolonial practices while recognizing that she cannot always remove herself from the colonial context that shapes her responsibilities and relationships. And she remains committed to centring BIPOC scholars, experts, and theorists whose research, critical apparatuses, questions, and ideas guide her own quest for knowledge. This approach will inform her proposed work as Joint Chair. As we build feminist AI literacy on campus, Joint Chair activities will centre the research and leadership of disabled, trans and BIPOC scholars, activists and artists.