Q.E. Drummond

Biography

Q.E. Drummond (she/her) is PhD student specializing in communicatory narrative as it makes and conveys meaning at both individual and collective levels; a topic she approaches through a framework of ‘experiential narrative.’ She completed dual Bachelors of Science at Southern Oregon University in Communication and in Emerging Media & Digital Art – during which time she wrote and produced the podcast Internarrative – before emigrating to Montréal, Canada to complete an MA in Media Studies at Concordia University. Her thesis, Conscious Beholding: Strategies, Methods, & Approaches Of Transgender & Gender-Nonconforming Filmmakers, utilized experiential narrative to demonstrate how stories can be intentionally deployed by a given group within a given medium to impart subjective perspectives to a given audience and, thereby, effect real-world change. On completing the coursework portion of her PhD, she will be pursuing research into how narrative structures can arguably be used to effect the most virulently persuasive forms of disinformation.

Research Interests: narrative; experiential narrative; subjectivity; disinformation; representation; media; culture; positionality; marginalization; beliefs, trans studies