Jacqui Gingras
On sabbatical from January to December 2025. Not available to accept new students during this period.
My research engages creative qualitative methods to explore social health movements, fat studies, radical democratic pedagogies, and decolonization of health professions within the entanglements of colonial neoliberal economics and intersectional feminisms. I am the founding editor of the Journal of Critical Dietetics, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal.
Recent publications
Brady, J., & Gingras, J. (Eds.). (submitted for review). Teaching social justice in the health care professions. Regina, SK: University of Regina Press.
Gingras, J., & Stranz, J. J. (2023). The magical thinking that permits anti-fat experts to fight fat stigma while also fighting fat. In A. Taylor, K. Ioannoni, R. Bahra, C. Evans, A. Scriver, & M. Friedman. (Eds.). Fat Studies in Canada: (Re)mapping the field. (pp. 101-123). Toronto, ON: Inanna Press.
Gingras, J., & Aphramor, L. (2022). Still dreaming after all these years that dietetics be (made) relevant. In P. Joy & M. Aston (Eds.). Queering nutrition and dietetics: LGBTQ+ reflections on food through art. (pp. 210-216). New York: Routledge.
Friedman, M., & Gingras, J. (2022). “(How) can we speak of this?” Opening into the dark spaces of maternal regret, choice, and the unknowable. In A. O’Reilly (Ed.). Maternal regret (pp. 239-254). Demeter Press.
Friedman, M., Kostka-Lichtfuss, K., Martignetti, L., & Gingras, J. (2021). “It feels a bit like drowning”: Expectations and experiences of motherhood during COVID-19. Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, 42(1), 1-11. Retrieved May 5, 2021 from https://journals.msvu.ca/index.php/atlantis/article/view/5546/4737.
Brady, J., Potvin, L, Bombak, A., Kirkham, A., Fraser, K-L., & Gingras, J. (2021). Fat food justice: Where fat studies meets food studies. Fat Studies. DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1968667
Sample of supervised ComCult projects
October 2022 – present (Provisional Supervisor) Carlea Blight, MA: Improving teen girls’ relationship with their bodies through media literacy and creative media practices.
July 2022 – present (Committee Member) Melody McMullan, MA: Real fat fans: The experiences of fat cosplayers and community ideas of authenticity
June 2022 – present (Supervisor) Alanna Quinn, MA: Lifelines through death and dying
September 2019 – September 2020 (Committee Member) Jordan Kroschinsky, MA: Online framing of communities by Canadian international non-governmental organizations
May 2016 – May 2020 (Committee Member) Sam Abel, PhD: Let’s talk about your weight”: How fat phobia manifests in therapy
ComCult Teaching Activities
- CC 8836 Selected Topics in Media and Culture: Theorizing the Fat Body within the Disciplinary Practice of Fat Studies