Ruthann Lee, Constance Crompton, and Diana Carter (left to right)
Meet Ruthann Lee, Constance Crompton, and Diana Carter
Ruthann Lee
Prior to her new position in Cultural Studies at UBC’s Okanagan campus, Dr. Lee (PhD, York University) taught at five different universities in Toronto and Halifax. Her research in the areas of Media and Social Activism, Anti-Colonial Feminisms, and Queer/Transgender Theory draw on her experience as a community educator and video artist.
This year, Ruthann will teach CULT 100: Themes in Culture and Identity and CULT 401F: Topics in Media Studies: Feminism, Media, and Resistance.
Diana Carter
Dr. Carter is a Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in The Netherlands and an Instructor at UBC’s Okanagan campus where is teaching Spanish language and linguistics courses.
Diana received her PhD in Spanish Linguistics in 2008 from the University of Ottawa. She has held two post-doctoral fellowships, one at the ESRC Centre for Research in Bilingualism in Wales and the second at the University of Calgary where she pursued her research interests in bilingualism, triggered codeswitching, and language acquisition.
Constance Crompton
Dr. Crompton is digital humanist with research interests in scholarly editing, queer history, and Victorian popular visual culture. She is co-director of Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada, a CRWC infrastructure pilot project.
Constance joins FCCS from the Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory at the University of Victoria and looks forward to teaching Digital Humanities in Critical Literary Studies and Studies in Children’s Literature in the second winter term of 2012-13.