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Doctoral Candidate and Contract Instructor, Legal Studies, Carleton University

Meg D. Lonergan is a doctoral candidate in Legal Studies with a collaborative specialization in Political Economy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Their dissertation research focuses on obscenity law in Canada from a ghost criminological perspective utilizing a Derridean hauntological framework.

Meg has taught a variety of upper-year undergraduate courses in Criminology, Legal Studies, and Sociology at Carleton and Concordia. They developed two popular fourth-year seminars (Cultural Criminology and True Crime Media) and look forward to teaching them again this year. They have also recently accepted a contract teaching Law and Feminism in Canada at the University of Alberta.

Lonergan's research interests include: obscenity; moral regulation; sex and technology; violence; porn studies; cultural and critical criminology; law, culture, and the humanities; true crime; horror and Gothic studies; qualitative methods and research ethics.

Experience

  • –present
    Doctoral Candidate and Contract Instructor , Carleton University
  • 2021–2021
    Contract Instructor, Concordia University

Education

  • 2016 
    Queen's University, M.A. Gender Studies
  • 2014 
    University of Ottawa, HonBSoc. Criminology and Women's Studies

Publications

  • 2023
    Consuming Ghost Stories: The Spectre of Snuff Films is Haunting Canadian Obscenity, Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research
  • 2022
    “Real Scary/Scary Real”: Consuming Simulated and Authentic Horrors in the Digital Era, Horror Studies
  • 2020
    Hard-on of darkness: Gore and shock websites as the dark tourism of digital space, Porn Studies
  • 2019
    It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s security as pacification! Security as Pacification in Superman Red Son, Panic at the Discourse
  • 2018
    The surrealism of men’s rights discourses on sexual assault allegations: A feminist reading of Kafka’s The Trial, Atlantis: Journal of Women’s Studies & Culture
  • 2017
    Witches, bitches, and white feminism: A critical analysis of American Horror Story: Coven, Render: The Carleton Graduate Journal of Art and Culture

Professional Memberships

  • Canadian Law and Society
  • Law, Culture and the Humanities
  • Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes