Corinne Mason, PhD
Professor
Office:
Phone: 403.440.6054 (Admin Office)
Email: cmason@mtroyal.ca
Website: corinnelmason.com
Education
PhD - University of Ottawa ( Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies)
MA - University of Toronto ( Women’s and Gender Studies Institute)
BA Honours - Queen’s University
Research
I am the Co-Founder and Co-Lead of QriTical: queer + trans research hub.
My current research program is inspired by two central curiosities:
i) the institutionalization of feminist and queer logics in higher education, including critical studies of EDI, sexualized violence responses, as well as the rise of “anti-gender ideology” on university campuses
ii) queer kinship, including kinship navigation during the COVID-19 pandemic, queer parenting in the time of "parental rights," and queer reproductive approaches to fertility and population 'crisis.'
Selected Projects
“Tracing the impacts of the anti-2SLGBTQIA+ legislation in Alberta on queer families,” SSHRC IDG (with Leah Hamilton, 2025)
“Queer Parenting in the Time of Parental Rights, SSHRC Explore (with Leah Hamilton, 2024)
“Unmasking Academia: Institutional Inequities Laid Bare During COVID-19” (co-edited with Irene Shankar, University of Alberta Press, November 2025)
“Reproduction in Crisis” (manuscript in progress)
Teaching
WGST 1172: Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
WGST 2205: Transnational Feminism
WGST 2207: Contemporary Issues in Women’s and Gender Studies: Reproductive Justice; Who's Afraid of Gender?
WGST 2239: Gender, Sexuality and Popular Culture
WGST 3345: Sex, Gender and the Body
WGST 3301: Feminist Thought
WGST 3310: Decolonizing Feminisms
WGST 3311: Gender, Race and Power
Service
Co-President, Executive Committee, Women’s, Gender and Social Justice Association (WGSJ)
Editorial Board, Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice