Dr. Ken Moffatt is professor emeritus at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), former Jack Layton Chair at the Faculty of Arts/Faculty of Community Services, TMU, and adjunct faculty, graduate program, Department of Social Work at McMaster University. His research focus includes affect theory. cultural studies, therapeutic interventions, pedagogy, and masculinities.
He has been the lead on several projects focused on symbol creation and meaning-making for social good in the context of neo-liberalism and technological determinism. Most recently, he was the lead of the SSHRC-funded project By Practice/ By Design, Community Arts, Pedagogy, Research.
In addition to 33 refereed articles, he is the author of A Poetics of Social Work. University of Toronto Press, Postmodern Social Work, Columbia University Press as well as editor of Troubled Masculinities, University of Toronto Press.
- Moffatt, K. (2027). Jagged Edge of the Wild, Afterward. In R. M. Vaughan, The final dazzling scarf: New and selected poems of R.M. Vaughan. Goose Lane Editions.
- Moffatt, K. (2027). Breathing underwater: Queer trauma as a response to social harm. In B. Pease, B. Wilkinson, & B. Bennett (Eds.), Rethinking trauma: Beyond trauma-informed practice in social work and human services (Abstract accepted, manuscript under review).
- Moffatt, K., & Tandon, R. (2025). Life imitates art: Collage as innovative pedagogy. In M. Panitch, S. Wehbi, & J. Machado (Eds.), Interrupting innovation, centring the social (pp. 105–125). Fernwood.
- Moffatt, K. (2024). Foreword: Finding the “correct” emotional register for queers in neoliberal times. In C. Greensmith & A. Davies (Eds.), Queering professionalism: Problems, potentials, and possibilities in neoliberal times (pp. xi–xvii). University of Toronto Press.
- Moffatt, K., Todd, S., Barnoff, L., Pyne, J., Panitch, M., Parada, H., McLeod, S., & Hunter-Young, N. (2018). Worry about professional education: Emotions and affect in the context of neoliberal change in postsecondary education (external link) . Emotions, Space and Society, 26, 9–15.
Crafting Community: an intersection of arts-based practice and academia
Year: 2022-2024
Role: Principal Investigator
Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Connections Grant "By Practice/By Design: Community Arts, Pedagogy, Research"
Indigenous Masculinity and HIV Wellness: Towards Planning a Research Agenda
Year: 2018-2021
Role: Co-investigator
Funded by: Canadian Institute of Health Research, Planning and Dissemination Grant
Unsettling the Classroom: Social Work Education in the Context of New Managerialism
Year: 2011
Role: Principal Investigator
Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Standard Research Grant
Designated Meritorious Application by Review Committee