Dayna MCLEOD
Videographic criticism; performance art; research-creation; Queer Theory; Transfeminist Studies
Dayna McLeod is a current Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec 鈥� Soci茅t茅 et culture research-creation postdoctoral fellow at 91社区. She earned a PhD from the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University. She is part-time faculty at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at 91社区, and at Concordia University at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute. Her work appears in The Journal of Autoethnography, Theatre Research in Canada, Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, Journal of Aging Studies, Canadian Theatre Review, and Ciel Variable.
My research engages with representations of aging queer, trans, and nonbinary subjects through the lens of practice-based artistic research. This research-creation work looks at how aging queer and nonbinary artists grapple with in/visibility and mediate their bodies within their artmaking practices, and the central role publics and audiences have in how they contribute to and participate in representations of knowing that can be productive, kind, and empathetic as well as destructive, ignorant, and fatal. My research also examines the potential of the video essay form as a platform for film criticism in relationship to queer subjectivity and representation.听
2022听听听 鈥淲hat a Feeling: Intimate Karaoke, Live at Uterine Concert Hall.鈥� Guest editors: Jocelyne Bartram Scott,听The Journal of Autoethnography, Vol. 3, no. 2, 2022
2021听听听 鈥淪potting the Cougar: Performing Queer Middle-Aging in Cougar for A Year.鈥� Special Issue on Age and Performance, Guest editors: Benjamin Gillespie, Julia Henderson, N煤ria Casado-Gual,听Theatre Research in Canada, Vol. 42, no. 2, Fall
2021听听听 Co-authored with Alanna Thain. 鈥淐inema鈥檚 Missing Bodies (With Laurent Lafontant of Massimadi Afro LGBTQ+ Film and Arts Festival, Bradford Nordeen of Dirty Looks, So Mayer of Club des Femmes, and Gary Varro of Queer City Cinema).鈥澨�Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, 62.2, Fall 2021
2021听听听 鈥�.鈥� Special Issue on aging edited by Rebecca L. Jones, Andrew King, and Dr Nadine Changfoot, 鈥淩evisioning aging futures: Feminist, queer, crip and decolonial visions of a good old age,鈥澨�Journal of Aging Studies.
2020 听听 鈥�.鈥� Guest editors: Moynan King and Megan Johnson, Special Issue on Sound and Performance,听Canadian Theatre Review, Vol. 184. Fall 2020.
2019听听听听鈥淜ent Monkman and Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Disrupting Colonial Comforts and Settler Sensibilities,鈥�听Ciel Variable, Vol. 113, Fall 2019