Emily Carrothers
BSW (King’s University College)
MSW (King’s University College)
Areas of Interest
Discourse; conceptualizations of precarity in helping professions; LGB and T affirmative praxis; gender, sexuality and queer theory; Foucauldian notions of power/knowledge and governmentality; biopower and the taxonomy and governance of life at the site of the body
Awards
Society of Graduate Students, Graduate Student Teaching Award of Excellence, 2018
Publications
Carrothers, E. (2016). “Sexuality, Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period: Narratives and
Explorations”, Motherhood and Sexuality. Demeter Press: York University.
Carrothers, E. (2016). “Working with Marginalized Families in Community”, A Casebook of
Community Practice. Published by Dr. D. Tam: London.
Presentations
2019 “Conceptualizing Notions of Poverty in Graduate Social Work Education: Contextualizing the Formation of the ‘Social Worker’ Subjectivity” European Social Work Curriculum Symposium, Universite Paris Diderot
2018 “The Queer, Pregnant Mother-Subject: Intersections of Heteronormativity and Homonormativity” Queer Modernisms II, The University of Oxford
2018 Co-founder/Co-organizer of Building A Trans-Affirming Practice Conference at Schulich School of Medicine, Western University. Funded in collaboration with Schulich; Western Equity and Human Rights Services & The Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research
2018 “Socio-legal Notions of Trans Parenthood” Critically Queer, Harvard University
2017 “Queer Futurity and Motherhood”, Feeling Queer/Queer Feeling, University of Toronto
2016 “Birth Trauma and Marginalized Female Subjectivities” Grounding Trauma 2016, University of Toronto
TA Assignments
WS 2260 - Women, Law & Social Change (2018/2019)
WS1020E - Introduction to Women's Studies (2017/2018)
