Announcing the Appointment of Dr. Corrie Scott as Joint Chair in Women’s Studies
The Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa and the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation at Carleton University are pleased to announce that Dr. Corrie Scott has been named to the Joint Chair in Women’s Studies at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. She will start her 2-year mandate on July 1, 2026.
Working in both French and English, Dr. Corrie Scott is a professor at the University of Ottawa, where she teaches undergraduate courses and graduate seminars and has served as both Graduate and Undergraduate Director. We congratulate Dr. Corrie Scott and are very excited to be working with her over the next two years.
During her mandate as Joint Chair in Women’s Studies, Dr. Scott will plan activities that revolve around the theme of “Feminist AI Literacy for Everybody”. She will pursue three main objectives which are both practical and political in nature.
First, Dr. Scott aims to alleviate some of the burden that AI-driven challenges present for instructors in both Institutes by inviting scholars, activists and artists to lead workshops with the aim of providing practical teaching support as well as space for students to explore the impact that AI is having on their lives. How do we adjust assignments and evaluations to ensure meaningful learning and assessment in a way that “moves us closer to justice, not just inclusion or diversity” (Mingus 2011)? How can we better communicate the importance of creativity and critical thinking skills to students? How do we extend intersectional feminist texts that we already teach to unpack AI’s epistemological, ethical and political implications?
Her second objective is to improve student feminist AI literacy by developing new graduate and undergraduate courses that Dr. Scott will teach at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University. Feminist AI programming will equip students with a structural analysis of power that empty AI branding is designed to obscure. Topics might include algorithmic justice, data gaps, Afrofuturism, digital colonialism, ghost work, structural gender and racial “bias”, Indigenous data governance frameworks, relational epistemologies, edtech, anti-black and anti-Palestinian surveillance culture, climate justice, labour rights, sociotechnical ableism, crip technoscience and linguistic injustice. Dr. Scott will be teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses including WGST 5902D Feminist AI Literacy for Everybody at Carleton and FEM6500C Féminisme et IA at uOttawa.
Third, she will invite scholars doing work on AI to speak at larger events intended for the wider campus community. She seeks to amplify scholars, artists and activists whose work questions AI’s corporate tendency to prioritize efficiency over meaning, extraction over care, output over creativity and private profits over the collective good. Her third objective is thus to think big and contribute to building the collective political power required to set AI on a better path across both campuses. Dr. Scott’s Joint Chair activities will engage with alternative ways to imagine what AI could be – an “engine of abundance” (Lewis et al., 2024) rather than a mechanism of extraction; a tool built for all peoples, not just the privileged; crip technoscience (Hamraie and Fritsch 2019) rather than “retrofitted” accessibility (Dolmage 2025). Dreaming big is a necessary antidote to empty AI hype and doom-laden tech pessimism (Bender and Hanna, 2025).