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Elspeth H. Brown is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto Mississauga, with cross-appointments to the Institute for Women and Gender Studies, Cinema Studies, and the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. Her research spans the cultural history of capitalism, history and theory of photography, and queer/trans history and theory in North America.
- Education: PhD from Yale University
Her methodological approaches include oral history, visual evidence analysis, and public engagement. She co-founded the Toronto Photography Seminar (2004) and established the Toronto Writing Workshop (2016) for creative non-fiction in academia. Her current research focuses on:
- LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory (SSHRC-funded, 2014-2019)
- The Family Camera Network (SSHRC PDG, 2016-2019)
- Intersections of queer affect and photographic theory
Key publications include Sexual Capital (Duke UP, 2019) and The Corporate Eye (Johns Hopkins, 2005), which won the Association of American Publishing's Business History Award. Her editorial work includes Feeling Photography (Duke UP, 2014) and Cultures of Commerce (Palgrave, 2006).
As director of the LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory, she works with The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives to preserve 36 oral histories from Toronto's Pussy Palace bathhouse events. She also volunteers weekly at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, processing the Rupert Raj collection.
