Ryan Conrad
Adjunct Research Professor and Contract Instructor
- PhD in Cultural Studies (Concordia University), MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Arts (Maine College of Art), B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (Bates College)
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Ryan Conrad is an activist, artist, and cultural studies scholar whose research, teaching, and cultural production interests in the study of sexuality include queer studies, queer of colour critique, affect theory, archival practices, film and media, HIV/AIDS, sex work, migration, and social movement history. Conrad’s current SSHRC funded research project titled Sex Worker Self-Authoring in the Canadian Women’s Movement Archive explores the holdings of the CWMA housed in the Archives and Special Collections at the University of Ottawa. The project will locate and animate written and visual materials produced by sex workers and the sex workers’ rights movement in Canada from 1977-1992.
Recent Publications:
- , PUBLIC Books, Toronto, ON, March 2024.
- “,” Queer Data Studies, University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, January 2024.
- “,” co-authored with Gary Lee Pelletier, QED Journal, Vol 9 No. 2, Fall 2022, 69–92.
- “,” co-authored with Emma McKenna, in Facilitating Community Research for Social Change: Case Studies in Qualitative, Arts-Based and Visual Research, Routledge, Oxfordshire, UK, April 2022.
- “,” co-authored with John Greyson, Little Joe, No. 6, November 2021.
- “,” Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, No. 60, March 2021.
- “,” Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis, Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, BC, October 2021.
- “,” Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Detention, Deportation, and Illegalization, University of Illinois Press, Fall 2020.