- Associate Professor, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University
Natalie Kouri-Towe is an Associate Professor of feminism and sexuality at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University. Her research has been published in both academic and non-academic venues on topics related to affect theory, solidarity, kinship, queer activism, trigger warnings, gender and sexuality pedagogies, masculinity, and responses to war in the Middle East. Her edited collection, Reading the Room: Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom, is forthcoming (Fall 2024) with Concordia University Press. Along with Myloe Martel-Perry, she has also published an open access teaching guidebook, Better Practice in the Classroom: A Teaching Guidebook for Sustainable, Inclusive, and Equitable Learning from a Gender and Sexuality Studies Framework, available through Concordia Pressbooks. She is currently working on a book manuscript on feminist and queer solidarity under neoliberalism titled Solidarity at Risk.
Experience
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–presentAssociate Professor of Feminism and Sexuality at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Concordia University
Education
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2015University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, PhD Social Justice Education
Publications
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2024Reading the Room: Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom, Concordia University Press
Grants and Contracts
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2024Transformative Encounters: Gender and Sexuality Pedagogies in Canada
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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2021Éducation « difficile » : avertissements de contenu dans les études supérieures au Québec et au Canada
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Société et culture
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2021Teaching in the 21st Century: Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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2020Triggering Education: Relational Readings of Trigger Warnings in the Canadian Post-Secondary Classroom
- Role:
- Co-investigator
- Funding Source:
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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2019Family and Kinship in the Refugee-Sponsor Relationship in Canada
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Professional Memberships
- Sexuality Studies Association
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- Location: Montreal, Canada
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