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T.L. Cowan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) and holds a cross-appointment in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Their scholarly work bridges media studies, performance, and critical theory, with a focus on minoritized digital and performance cultures.
Research Interests: Cowan's research explores queer, feminist, transgender, and decolonizing networked cultural practices across digital media and historical performance forms. They investigate how grassroots collectives, experimental media, and shared-stage formats like cabaret function as technologies of collaboration, knowledge transfer, and political resistance. Their work spans transnational contexts—from early 20th-century European cabaret to Carpa Theater in Mexico, Harlem Renaissance performance, Montreal transsexual cabaret, and contemporary 'mass cabaret' protests.
Cowan theorizes cabaret as a mode of inquiry, pedagogy, and economic model that sustains counter-cultural aesthetics and politics. This includes engagement with projects like FemTechNet, which they interpret as a DIY techno-cabaret. Their research practice dynamically moves across the page, stage, and screen.
Supervision: Cowan is actively supervising graduate students, including Nelanthi Hewa.
Previous Positions:
- Presidential Visiting Professor, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Yale University
- Chair of Experimental Pedagogies, School of Media Studies, The New School
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