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Lindsay Balfour

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Assistant Professor of Digital Media, Coventry University

My current research draws on the relationship between FemTech and the forms of knowledge and experience produced by and about women’s bodies to forward both a critique and a recognition of existing alternative models for feminine technologies. In doing so, the project offers wider benefits concerning the global health of women, such as those outlined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals regarding Women and Girls, and in particular targets focusing on sexual and reproductive health. Generally, I work with critical theories of (post)feminism, technology, the philosophy of hospitality, and the role of the digital and artificial intelligence in everyday life. My upcoming project will assess the extent to which biometric tracking devices marketed to women as wearable, implantable, and ingestible digital products reproduce gendered, raced, and classed discourses that regulate women’s heath, whilst simultaneously eliding inequitable relations of labour and consumption.

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Assistant Professor, Coventry University
  • 2017–2020
    Assistant Professor, Concordia University

Education

  • 2015 
    University of British Columbia, Doctor of Philosophy

Publications

  • 2022
    #TimesUp for Siri and Alexa: Sexual Violence and Virtual Domestic Assistants (chapter), Palgrave
  • 2021
    An Intersectional Analysis of our Robotic Future, Cultural Studies
  • 2020
    Ground Zero Revisited: Museums and Materiality in an Age of Global Pandemic, Museum and Society
  • 2018
    The Disintegration Loops and the Archeology of Sound, Sonic Studies
  • 2017
    Hospitality in a Time of Terror, Bucknell University Press
  • 2016
    Risky Cosmopolitanism: Intimacy and Autoimmunity in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
  • 2015
    Unlikely Cryptfellows: Hospitality, Difference, and Spectrality at the 9/11 Museum, Journal of Aesthetics and Culture
  • 2014
    Framing Redress after 9/11: Protest, Reconciliation and Canada’s War on Terror Against Indigenous Peoples, Canadian Journal of Native Studies
  • 2013
    Organic Shrapnel and the Possibility of Violence, Affinities
  • 2012
    Sympathy for the Devil: (Re)Reading The Satanic Verses After 9/11 and Learning to Love the Monster (Within), Postcolonial Text

Grants and Contracts

  • 2015
    Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship
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  • 2011
    Doctoral Scholarship
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    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • 2010
    Masters Scholarship
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    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada