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Framing autoethnography in and through the arts 20260520

Summary:

Taking up situated feminist ontology, we examined the emergence of autoethnography framed by the post qualitative, immanence, and worlding, in and through the arts. 

Bio

Fiona Blaikie, PhD, Professor, FRSC

Interdisciplinary Visual Arts, Culture, and Pedagogy 

Professor, former Dean, Chair of AERI, Associate Director, Posthumanism Research Institute, and Chief Examiner of IBO Visual Arts, Fiona’s scholarship investigates aesthetic and pedagogical values in criteria for high-school studio art assessment, alongside epistemological gaps between high-school and tertiary studio art. In a shift to examine social theory on the body and clothing, her 2021 edited collection Visual and cultural identity constructs of youth and young adults: Being, becoming and belonging was published by Routledge. Recent work draws on post-qualitative methods, new materialities, worlding, posthumanism, transhumanism, popular culture and science fiction as themes for art pedagogies. Awards for scholarship include CSEA, the USSEA/InSEA International Ziegfeld Award, and appointment in November 2025 as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Arts and Humanities division. 

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Fiona Blaikie
Matthew Dunleavy wearing a pink and purple polka-dot shirt under a grey blazer with red-framed glasses and a long reddish-brown beard smiling into the camera
Matthew Dunleavy

Senior Educational Developer, Faculty Excellence and Development

mdunleavy@yorkvilleu.ca 

Matthew Dunleavy (he/him) is an educational developer and scholarly teacher with over 9+ years’ experience. He immediately joins our CTEI from York University where he was an Educational Developer with the Teaching Commons; before entering that role, he served as the Program Director of the Online Learning and Technology Consultants (OLTC) Program at the Maple League of Universities (Acadia University; Bishop’s University; Mount Allison University; and St. Francis Xavier University). In 2022, he was awarded the D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) for this work.