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Biography

Sheryl N. Hamilton is Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication and the Department of Law and Legal Studies. She holds a J.D. in Law from the University of Saskatchewan (1988), an M.A. in Communication from 杏吧原创 University (1995), and a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from Concordia University (2000). She was the Canada Research Chair in Communication, Law and Governance (2003-2013) and is a Fellow of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada (2014).

Current Research

My current program of research explores the senses, bodies, media and regulation in the context of ubiquitous disease threat. From public health handwashing poster campaigns, to changing norms around social touch, to popular culture and media representations of disease risk, to viral photography, I am in interested in exploring how it feels to live in pandemic culture.

I have also recently returned to the epistemological construct of the 鈥榮ocial science fiction鈥� to explore contemporary issues in genetic science, non-human personhood, and the virus.

Selected Publications

Books

Law鈥檚 Expression: Communication, Law and Media (2019), (with Sandra Robinson), LexisNexis.

Becoming Biosubjects: Bodies. Systems. Technologies. (2013/2011), (with Neil Gerlach, Rebecca Sullivan, and Priscilla Walton), University of Toronto Press. Winner of the G.J. Robinson Book Prize, 2012.

Impersonations: Troubling the Person in Law and Culture (2009), University of Toronto Press. Winner of the Canadian Law and Society Association Best Book Prize, 2010.

Edited Collections and Special Issues Edited

Mediating Disease Cultures (2019), special issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication 44(2).

Sensing Law (2017), (with D. Majury, D. Moore, N. Sargent and C. Wilke), Routledge.

Social Science Fictions (2003), special issue of Science Fiction Studies (with Neil Gerlach), 30(2).

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

In press

鈥淗ands in Cont(r)act: The Resiliency of Business Handshakes in Pandemic Culture鈥� in Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Special Issue Explorations in Sensori-Legal Studies (D. Howes, ed.).

2019

鈥淢ediating Disease Cultures: Introduction鈥� in Canadian Journal of Communication, 44.2: 151-156.

鈥淓nvisioning a Habitus of Hygiene: Hands as Disease Media in Public Health Handwashing Campaigns鈥� in Canadian Journal of Communication, 44.2: 263-288.

2017

鈥�The Charismatic Cultural Life of Cybernetics: Reading Norbert Wiener as Visible Scientist鈥� in special issue of Canadian Journal of Communication on the Margins of Cybernetics, 42(3): 407-429.

鈥淩ituals of Intimate Legal Touch: Regulating the End-of-Game Handshake in Pandemic Culture鈥� in The Senses and Society, 12(1): 53-68.

鈥淪ensing Law: Introduction鈥� (with D. Majury, D. Moore, and N. Sargent) in Sensing Law (S. Hamilton, D. Majury, D. Moore, N. Sargent and C. Wilke, eds.) London: Routledge, pp. 1-29.

鈥淓pilogue鈥� in Sensing Law (S. Hamilton, D. Majury, D. Moore, N. Sargent and C. Wilke, eds.) London: Routledge, pp. 280-283.

2016

鈥�Playing at Apocalypse: Reading Plague Inc. in and as Pandemic Culture鈥� (Equal co-authorship with Scott Mitchell) in Convergence: The Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies (2016): 1-20.

鈥溾�楬uman no like smart ape鈥�: Figuring the Ape as Legal Person in Rise of the Planet of the Apes鈥� in Law and Humanities, 10(2): 1-22. See

2014

鈥淭rafficking in Zombie: The CDC Zombie Apocalypse Campaign, Diseaseability and Pandemic Culture鈥� (equal co-authorship with Neil Gerlach) in a special issue Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media on the circulation of horror imagery at

2013

鈥淐onsidering Critical Communication Studies in Canada鈥� in Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication (Leslie Regan Shade, ed.), Scarborough, ON: Nelson 鈥� significantly revised version, pp. 4-24.

鈥淐ritical? No Question! Why critical communication study is still relevant, and even necessary in our contemporary mediascape鈥� in Communication in Question (Joshua Greenberg and Charlene Elliott, eds.), Scarborough, ON: Nelson, pp. 57-65.

2010

鈥淪upernatural Bureaucracy: Legal Rationality in Dark Fantasy Literature鈥� (equal co-authorship with Neil Gerlach) in Journal of Law, Culture and Humanities 6: 394-419.

2009

鈥淚dentity Theft and the Construction of Creditable Subjects鈥� in Surveillance:聽 Power, Problems and Politics (Sean P. Hier and Joshua Greenberg, eds.), Vancouver: UBC Press, pp. 116-139.

2007

鈥淣ot-so-Intellectual: Have Intellectual Property Rights Run Amok鈥� in Communication in Question (Charlene Elliott and Joshua Greenberg, eds.), Nelson, pp. 250-8.

鈥淣ow It鈥檚 Getting Personal: Copyright Issues in Canada鈥� in How Canadians Communicate, vol. II (David Taras, ed.), Calgary: University of Calgary Press, pp. 244-320.

2005

鈥淔rom Mad Scientist to Bad Scientist: Richard Seed as Biogovernmental Event鈥� (equal co-authorship with Neil Gerlach) in special issue on Communication, Biotechnology and the Body, Communication Theory, 15(2005): 78-99.

鈥淢ade in Canada:聽 A Unique Solution to Internet Service Provider Liability and Copyright Issues鈥� in In the Public Interest:聽 Canadian Copyright Reform (Michael Geist, ed.), Irwin Law, pp. 285-308.

2004

鈥淧reserving Self in the City of the Imagination:聽 Georg Simmel and Dark City鈥� (equal co-authorship with Neil Gerlach) in Canadian Review of American Studies, 34.2: 115-34.

2003

鈥淚ntroduction: A History of Social Science Fiction鈥� (equal co-authorship with Neil Gerlach) Science Fiction Studies 30(2), July 2003: 161-173.

鈥淭races of the Future: Biotechnology, Science Fiction and the Media鈥� in Science Fiction Studies, 30(2), July 2003: 267-282.

Teaching

• Communication and the senses
• Sensory legal studies
• Disease, communication and media
• Intellectual property
• Science and media
• Bodies and regulation
• Freedom of expression
• Qualitative methods and methodology
• Communication theory
• Regulation and governance

Graduate Students

I have supervised 46 Master鈥檚 students, 8 Ph.D. students, 2 postdoctoral fellows and 15 honours research essay students to completion on a wide range of topics, including:

• philosophy and communication
• celebrity culture
• cultural regulation and cultural policy
• moral regulation
• privacy
• gender and media
• popular culture
• cultural studies of food
• gender and sexuality
• discourse theory
• surveillance
• animal rights
• personhood
• science and media
• law and emotions
• and many other topics!