T.L. Cowan & Jasmine Rault
Jasmine Rault (settler, they/she) is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Arts, Culture, Media (UTSC) and the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Rault’s research focuses on mediations of gender, race, and sexuality in architecture and design, digital cultures and economies, arts, and social movements. This includes publications in American Quarterly; Feminist Media Studies; Scholar & Feminist Online; Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture; Archives of American Art. Rault’s first book is Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In (Ashgate/Routledge, 2011).
T.L. Cowan (settler, she/they) is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media (UTSC) and the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Cowan’s research focuses on cultural and intellectual economies and networks of trans- feminist and queer (TFQ) and other minoritized digital media and performance practices. This work includes a monograph, entitled Transmedial Drag and Other Cross-Platform Cabaret Methods, nearing completion. Cowan’s recent publications can be found in the Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities & Art History, Theatre Research in Canada, American Quarterly, First Monday, and Liminalities. Cowan is also a cabaret and video artist.
Together, Jasmine Rault and T. L. Cowan write about minoritized research methods, ethics and economies, Trans- Feminist & Queer (TFQ) research cultures, and digital archives. They are co-directors of the Cabaret Commons and Digital Ethics Research Collaboratory (DREC). Rault and Cowan are currently co-authoring a book, Heavy Processing for Digital Materials (forthcoming with Punctum Books).