<div dir="ltr">Hello #dl14<div><br></div><div>My name is T.L. Cowan and I teach at the New School, both at Eugene Lang College (in Culture & Media, Integrated Arts and Gender Studies) and in the School of Media Studies, where I am the FemTechNet Chair of Experimental Pedagogies. I'm excited to see you all here in a couple of months. </div><div><br></div><div>I'll be presenting as part of the "<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Research and Practice on Feminist / Feminized Digital Labor" Long Table discussion with several colleagues from The New School. </span></div><div><br></div><div>My main research focus these days is on the trans- feminist and queer cultural and intellectual economies and social lives, and I have published several recent articles on this topic: “The Labour of Being Studied in a Free Love Economy.” (with Jasmine Rault) in <em>ephemera </em>(2014) <a href="http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/labour-being-studied-free-love-economy">http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/labour-being-studied-free-love-economy</a> and “Speculative Praxis Towards a Queer Feminist Anti-Archive: A
Collaborative Research-Creation Project.” (with Jasmine Rault & Dayna
McLeod) in <em>Ada: a Journal of Gender, New Media & Technology </em>(2014). <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7264/N3PZ573Z">doi:10.7264/N3PZ573Z</a>. These two articles reflect what I'm thinking about digital labour these days... </div><div><br></div><div>By training, I'm an interdisciplinary scholar (practicing what I call critical interdisciplinarity in my research, writing and teaching) across literary, performance and cultural studies and I work mostly with cabaret performance and cultural economies, right now finishing up a book that is a revised version of my dissertation called <i>Poetry's Bastard: The Illegitimate Geneaologies, Cultures, and Politics of Text-Based Performance in Canada</i> while also developing a new book project, provisionally entitled "Sliding Scale: <em>The Cultural Economies of Trans- Feminist and Queer Cabaret - Montreal, Mexico City & New York City." </em>I am also working with Jasmine Rault and Dayna McLeod on a <span>collaborative research-creation project called <a href="http://www.cwrc.ca/projects/the-caberet-commons/" target="_blank">the Cabaret Commons</a>:
a user-generated digital archive and gossip rag for grass-roots queer
and feminist artists, audiences and researchers. We are preempting the
creation of this archive through a project/process we're calling
"Feeling Speculative in Digital Space." Over the course of the next year
or so, we'll be doing some utopic imagining for a digital space that
is informed by trans- feminist and queer ways of knowing, being, and
making.</span></div><div><br></div><div>And I work with FemTechNet (the Feminist Technology Network) developing cyberfeminist approaches to online education and connecting with other digital pedagogical publics. </div><div><br></div><div>Oh, and I'm a performance artist and writer and I co-edit the Helix Critical Project (<a href="http://helixqpn.tumblr.com/criticism">http://helixqpn.tumblr.com/criticism</a>), which is a blog dedicated to cultivating better critical dialogue about contemporary queer performance. </div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to meeting you all and finding out what you're up to. </div><div><br></div><div>See you in November, </div><div>tl </div><div><br></div><div>(<a href="http://tlcowan.net">tlcowan.net</a>)</div><div><br></div><div><p><br></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Dr. T.L. Cowan</div><div>FemTechNet Chair of Experimental Pedagogies,<br>School of Media Studies</div><div>Lecturer, Eugene Lang College<br>The New School<br>Office: 64 West 11 St. Room 121<br>Mailing: 65 West 11th Street New York, NY 10011<br>Email - <a href="mailto:cowant@newschool.edu" target="_blank">cowant@newschool.edu</a><br></div>Web - <a href="http://tlcowan.net" target="_blank">tlcowan.net</a><br></div>
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