Dr. Alexa Dodge is an Alumni of the Law & Legal Studies Doctoral program. She defended her Dissertation, titled Punishing Revenge Porn: Legal Interpretations of and Responses to Non-Consensual Intimate Image Distribution in Canada, on July 25th, 2019.
Dissertation Committee: Lara Karaian (Criminology), Ummni Khan (Legal Studies), & Rena Bivens (Communication and Media Studies)
EDUCATION
PhD, Law & Legal Studies, Carleton University
MA, Law & Legal Studies, Carleton University
BA, Contemporary Studies & Political Science (Honours), University of King’s College
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
2019 Dodge, A. ‘Nudes Are Forever: Legal Interpretations of Digital Technology’s Impact on “Revenge Porn.”’ Canadian Journal of Law & Society, 34(1): 121-143.
2019 Dodge, A., D. Spencer, R. Ricciardelli, and D. Ballucci. ‘“This Isn’t Your Father’s Police Force”: Digital Evidence in Sexual Assault Investigations.’ Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology.
2018 Dodge, A. ‘The Digital Witness: The Role of Digital Evidence in Criminal Justice Responses to Sexual Violence.’ Feminist Theory, 19(3): 303-321.
2018 Dodge, A. and D. Spencer. ‘Online Sexual Violence, Child Pornography or Something Else Entirely?: Police Responses to Non-Consensual Intimate Image Sharing Among Youth.’ Social & Legal Studies, 27(5): 636-657.
2018 Spencer, D., A. Dodge, R. Ricciardelli, and D. Ballucci ‘“I Think It’s Re-Victimizing Victims Almost Every Time”: Police Perceptions of Criminal Justice Responses to Sexual Violence.’ Critical Criminology, 26(2): 189-209.
2016 Dodge, A. ‘Digitizing Rape Culture: Online Sexual Violence and the Power of the Digital Photograph.’ Crime, Media, Culture, 12(1): 65-82.
2015 Dodge, A. Book Review: ‘David Gurnham’s Crime, Desire and Law’s Unconscious: Law, Literature & Culture.’ Social & Legal Studies, 24(2): 324-328.
SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
2016-2019 SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship ($105,000)
2016 Ontario Graduate Scholarship ($15,000) (Declined)
2015 Ontario Graduate Scholarship ($15,000)
2014 Ontario Graduate Scholarship ($10,000)
2013 Oxford University Press Award – Best Feminist Theory Paper ($200)
KEYNOTE & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2019 Keynote Speaker, ‘Punishing Revenge Porn: Framings of Violence in Legal Responses to Non-Consensual Intimate Image Sharing’, Screening Violence: Affect, Responsibility, Accountability, Lancaster (UK).
2019 ‘Disgraced Women and Vengeful Men: Socio-Legal Understandings of Victims and Offenders of “Revenge Porn”’, Canadian Law & Society Association, University of British Columbia.
2019 ‘What’s New about “Revenge Porn”?: Judicial Understandings of Digital Harm in Cases of Non-Consensual Intimate Image Distribution’, Digitizing Justice, University of Winnipeg.
2019 ‘From Child Pornography to Sexual Assault: The Implications of Socio-Legal Framings of Non-Consensual Intimate Image Distribution’, Law, Culture, & Humanities, Ottawa.
2019 ‘Moving beyond the Zero Sum of Academic Freedom and Anti-oppression’, Law, Culture, & Humanities, Ottawa.
2018 ‘Academic Freedom and Equity’, Always a Zero-sum Game?: Exploring the Perceived Tensions Between Academic Freedom and Anti-oppression, Carleton University.
2018 ‘“Try Not to be Embarrassed”: Legal Conceptions of the Harm Caused by Revenge Porn’, Critical Perspectives: Criminology & Social Justice, Saint Mary’s University.
2018 ‘Techno Panics and Digital Ghosts: The Role of Digital Technology in Cases of Non-Consensual Intimate Image Sharing’, Law & Society Association, Toronto.
2018 Discussant, ‘Contesting Consent and Sexual Agency in Law and Society’, Law & Society Association, Toronto.
2017 ‘The Promise of Digital Evidence in Sexual Assault Trials: Representations of Certainty and Mutability’, Critical Perspectives: Criminology & Social Justice, University of Ottawa.
2017 “‘I Think It’s Re-Victimizing Victims Almost Every Time”: Police Perceptions of Criminal Justice Responses to Sexual Violence’ (with Dale Spencer), Approaching Justice Through Legal Studies: A Socio-Legal Symposium, Carleton University.
2016 ‘The Digital Witness: The Role of Digital Evidence in Criminal Justice Responses to Sexual Violence’, Terms of Privacy: Intimacies, Exposures, and Exceptions, McGill University’s Institute for Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies.
2016 ‘Online Sexual Violence, Child Pornography, or Something Else Entirely?: Police Responses to Non-Consensual Intimate Image Sharing Among Youth’ (with Dale Spencer), Rethinking Cybercrime, University of Central Lancashire (Preston, UK).
2015 ‘“The Always-on Stalker”: Applying Criminological Perspectives to Online Sexual Violence’, Canadian Law & Society Association, University of Ottawa.
2014 ‘Techno-Activism and the Voices of Women and Girls’, Women and Technology Conference, Carleton University.
2014 ‘Sexual Assault in the Age of Social Media: Digital Photography, Sharing, and Gender-Based Hate’, Graduate Legal Studies Conference, Carleton University.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
2019 ‘Talking to Youth about Nude Image Sharing and the Law’, Planned Parenthood Ottawa’s Sex Educator Training.
2019 ‘Academic Freedom and Anti-oppression’ (with Ummni Khan and Deborah Conners), Chairs Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association.
2015 ‘Online Sexual Violence and the Law’, The Sexual Assault Network’s Professional Development Day.
2015 ‘Digital Dating Violence and Non-Consensual Intimate Image Sharing’, Family Services Ottawa’s ‘In Love and In Danger: Digital Dating Violence Youth Conference’.