Carla Rice

I am a professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Guelph specializing in embodiment studies and in creative and storytelling methodologies. Ten years ago, I moved from Trent University to Guelph, founding Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice as an arts-informed research centre with a mandate to foster inclusive communities, social well-being, equity, and justice. I've had a busy and fulfilling career, and have been gratified to receive awards for research, mentorship and advocacy. Since becoming a professor, I've written on embodied difference, mental difference, weight stigma, intersectionality, non-normative cultures, and accessibility and inclusion. I currently am the Principal Investigator of Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology and Access to Life (which I co-direct with the brilliant Dr. Eliza Chandler), a 7-year multi-partnership project that seeks to cultivate disability, fat and aging activist arts and study its impacts on audiences with an aim to advance social justice in Canada and beyond.

For more information on Rice go to http://www.carlarice.ca/.
For more information on the Re•Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice, go to: https://projectrevision.ca/. More information about Bodies in Translation can be found at: https://bodiesintranslation.ca/.