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Craig Jennex

Craig Jennex

Media & Culture
DepartmentEnglish (Toronto Metropolitan University)
Areas of ExpertiseCultural Studies; Feminist Theory; Music Studies; Popular Culture; Queer Theory; Resistance and Protest; Sexuality Studies; Women’s and Gender Studies
https://www.torontomu.ca/english/about-us/faculty-and-staff/faculty/jennex-craig/

Craig Jennex is a scholar of queer and feminist theory, LGBTQ2+ history and culture, and popular music. His current research project, entitled Liberation on the Dance Floor, analyzes histories of collective dance and popular music within lesbian and gay liberation movements in Canada and the United States in the late 20th century.

I am committed to interdisciplinary learning, queer and feminist methodologies, and collaborative knowledge production. My experience as a queer person, my background in accessible and social justice-oriented course development and design, and record of facilitating community-engaged knowledge creation deeply inform my research, teaching, and service endeavours at TMU. My research is animated by a personal investment in the political potential that exists at the intersection of activism, archival work, and scholarship.

Recent publications

Jennex, Craig. Liberation on the Dance Floor: Popular Music and the Promise of Plurality. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024.

Jennex, Craig. “Affective Interruptions: Political Collectivity in Halftime.” Journal of the Society for American Music, vol. 17, no. 3, 2023, pp. 261-272.

Jennex, Craig. “Queer Collectivity in the Echoes of the Dance Floor.” SDUK14: Lingering, vol. 14, no. 1, 2023, 
 pp. 6-8.

Jennex, Craig in conversation with QueerSoftOrange. “(Re)Materializing Ephemera from Toronto’s Queer Nightlife,” Cornelia: A Visual Arts Review for Western New York and Southern Ontario. (2023).

Jennex, Craig and Charity Marsh, editors. MUSICultures, vol. 28, no. 1-2, 2021.

Jennex, Craig. “Introduction: Queer Musicking.” MUSICultures vol 48, no. 1-2, 2021. pp. 1-8.

Jennex, Craig and Nisha Eswaran. Out North: An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada. Figure 1, 2020.

Jennex, Craig. “Liberation on the Dance Floor: Collective Dance and Queer Politics in Canada.” Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 52, no. 2, 2020, pp. 415-433.

Sample of Supervised ComCult Projects

2023 - Madison Generoux; MA Thesis (Supervisor)

2020 - Danielle Collado; MA Thesis (Second Reader)