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Biography

Biography

Dr. St茅fy McKnight聽(they/them/iel) is a white settler (French, Scottish, and English descent), non-binary and queer artist-scholar in the Media Production and Design program. They are Director of聽, and聽, at 杏吧原创 University on the unceded and unsurrendered territories of the Algonquin nation.

St茅fy鈥檚 research examines research-creation as a methodology for knowledge production and fact-based storytelling in so called Canada. 聽Their current research looks at care-laboration and care-centric research-creation; surveillance and pleasure, and settler colonial logics of rural land management, territory and property.

Their scholarly work takes the form of performance, multi-media interventions, 3D printing, installation, video art, and various digital and physical curatorial projects. Their research-creation has been exhibited at the Stratford Gallery (Stratford); Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre (Kingston); Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts (Kingston); White Water Gallery (North Bay) and others. St茅fy is a member of the performance duo聽with Dr. Julia Chan from the University of Calgary.

Cross Listed for Graduate Supervision

• Communication and Media Studies
• Public History
• Cultural Mediations
• Digital Humanities

Current Projects

watching territory: Creative Interventions into Examining Surveillance in Rural Northern Ontario:

Surveillant Pleasures: Using Research-Creation to Explore the Generative Potential of Surveillance (with Dr. Julian Chan, University of Calgary):

鈥淧hantom Intimacies: Creative Interventions into Visualizing Disability and Queer Relationality.鈥澛� Artwork. City of Kingston Arts Fund funded:聽

Select Past Projects聽

鈥淎qtion Arqhive: Tracing 2SLGBTQIA+ Labour Activism in Katarokwi-Kingston.鈥澛燬SHRC PEG funded (Principal Investigator) (co-Applicant Dr. Morgan Oddie):聽

鈥淧ROTOHYVE: Centre for Innovative Research-Creation in so called Canada.鈥�:聽

Multimedia Storytelling with Indigenous Youth and Post-Secondary Students: Youth Co-creation of a Vision for Sustainable Development as a Strategy toward Reconciliation. (Principal Investigator Rick Colbourne):聽

Select Publications

Chan, Julia and St茅fy McKnight. (2024). 鈥淧leasures of Surveillance.鈥� Editorial.聽Surveillance & Society:聽

Chan, Julia and St茅fy McKnight. (2023). 鈥淒isruptive Exhibitionism: A performance methodology for surveillance art.鈥澛燤edia Practice and Education. Taylor & Francis Online:聽

Bahng, Sojung, S. McKnight, and J. McCormack. (2022). 鈥淎 comparative study of practice-based research and research-creation in media art: Comparing two doctoral studies in Australia and Canada.鈥澛營SEA Proceedings:聽

McKnight, St茅fy. (2020). 鈥淐reative Research Methodologies for Surveillance Studies鈥�,聽Surveillance & Society:聽

Select Research Funding Awarded

2024: SSHRC Insight Grant (Principal Investigator)

2022: Ontario Research Fund: Research Infrastructure (Principal Investigator)

2022: Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund (Principal Investigator)

2022: New Frontiers in Research Fund (Principal Nominated Investigator with Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Julia Chan, University of Calgary)

2022: Individual Project Fund, City of Kingston Arts Fund (Artist)

2021: Partnership Engage Grant, Social Sciences Humanities Research Council (Principal Investigator with Co-Applicant Dr. Morgan Oddie, Public Service Alliance of Canada)

2021: Insight Development Grant, Social Sciences Humanities Research Council (Principal Investigator)

2021: Multidisciplinary Research Catalyst Fund (MRCF), 杏吧原创 University (Co-Applicant with Principal Investigator Rick Colbourne)

2018-2021 (deferred 2021): (PI) Joseph-Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences Humanities Research Council (Principal Investigator)

Select Honours聽聽

2024: Research Achievement Award, 杏吧原创 University, Ottawa, ON

2022: Research Excellence Award, Faculty of Public Affairs, 杏吧原创 University, Ottawa, ON

2019: Union Activist of the Year, Kingston District Labour Council, Kingston, ON

2017: Honorable mention, Inaugural bi-annual Surveillance Studies Network Art Fund Prize

Academic Training

2020: PhD, Cultural Studies Program, Queen鈥檚 University, Kingston, ON.

2016: Master of Art, Cultural Studies Program, Queen鈥檚 University, Kingston, ON.

2014: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) and minor in Gender Equality and Social Justice, Nipissing University, North Bay, ON.

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