Stéfy McKnight
Associate Professor, Media Production and Design (cross-appointed with Communication and Media Studies) / Program Director, Media Production and Design (acting)
| Building: | Richcraft Hall, Room 4105 |
| Department: | School of Journalism and Communication |
Biography
Biography
Dr. Stéfy McKnight (they/them/iel) is a white settler (French, Scottish, and English descent), non-binary and queer artist-scholar in the Media Production and Design program. They are Director of PROTOHYVE: Centre for Innovative Research-Creation, and surveillART: care-laboratory for research-creation and disruptive exhibitionism, at Carleton University on the unceded and unsurrendered territories of the Algonquin nation.
Stéfy’s research examines research-creation as a methodology for knowledge production and fact-based storytelling in so called Canada. Their current research looks at care-laboration and care-centric research-creation; surveillance and pleasure, and settler colonial logics of rural land management, territory and property.
Their scholarly work takes the form of performance, multi-media interventions, 3D printing, installation, video art, and various digital and physical curatorial projects. Their research-creation has been exhibited at the Stratford Gallery (Stratford); Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre (Kingston); Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts (Kingston); White Water Gallery (North Bay) and others. Stéfy is a member of the performance duo Cam Hunters with Dr. Julia Chan from the University of Calgary.
Cross Listed for Graduate Supervision
- Communication and Media Studies
- Public History
- Cultural Mediations
- Digital Humanities
Current Projects
watching territory: Creative Interventions into Examining Surveillance in Rural Northern Ontario: https://www.surveillart.ca/watching-territory
Surveillant Pleasures: Using Research-Creation to Explore the Generative Potential of Surveillance (with Dr. Julian Chan, University of Calgary): https://www.camhunters.org/surveillantpleasures
“Phantom Intimacies: Creative Interventions into Visualizing Disability and Queer Relationality.” Artwork. City of Kingston Arts Fund funded: https://www.stefymcknight.com/phantom-intimacies
Select Past Projects
“Aqtion Arqhive: Tracing 2SLGBTQIA+ Labour Activism in Katarokwi-Kingston.” SSHRC PEG funded (Principal Investigator) (co-Applicant Dr. Morgan Oddie): https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4f0fc725cd5e4088bbe8740a2cfff183
“PROTOHYVE: Centre for Innovative Research-Creation in so called Canada.”: https://www.protohyve.com
Multimedia Storytelling with Indigenous Youth and Post-Secondary Students: Youth Co-creation of a Vision for Sustainable Development as a Strategy toward Reconciliation. (Principal Investigator Rick Colbourne): https://www.indigenousyouthstories.com
Select Publications
Chan, Julia and Stéfy McKnight. (2024). “Pleasures of Surveillance.” Editorial. Surveillance & Society: https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/17261
Chan, Julia and Stéfy McKnight. (2023). “Disruptive Exhibitionism: A performance methodology for surveillance art.” Media Practice and Education. Taylor & Francis Online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/25741136.2023.2209685
Bahng, Sojung, S. McKnight, and J. McCormack. (2022). “A comparative study of practice-based research and research-creation in media art: Comparing two doctoral studies in Australia and Canada.” ISEA Proceedings: https://sojungb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ISEA_PBRvsRc_Bahng_McKnight.pdf
McKnight, Stéfy. (2020). “Creative Research Methodologies for Surveillance Studies”, Surveillance & Society: https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/13530
Select Research Funding Awarded
2024: SSHRC Insight Grant (Principal Investigator)
2022: Ontario Research Fund: Research Infrastructure (Principal Investigator)
2022: Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund (Principal Investigator)
2022: New Frontiers in Research Fund (Principal Nominated Investigator with Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Julia Chan, University of Calgary)
2022: Individual Project Fund, City of Kingston Arts Fund (Artist)
2021: Partnership Engage Grant, Social Sciences Humanities Research Council (Principal Investigator with Co-Applicant Dr. Morgan Oddie, Public Service Alliance of Canada)
2021: Insight Development Grant, Social Sciences Humanities Research Council (Principal Investigator)
2021: Multidisciplinary Research Catalyst Fund (MRCF), Carleton University (Co-Applicant with Principal Investigator Rick Colbourne)
2018-2021 (deferred 2021): (PI) Joseph-Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences Humanities Research Council (Principal Investigator)
Select Honours
2024: Research Achievement Award, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
2022: Research Excellence Award, Faculty of Public Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
2019: Union Activist of the Year, Kingston District Labour Council, Kingston, ON
2017: Honorable mention, Inaugural bi-annual Surveillance Studies Network Art Fund Prize
Academic Training
2020: PhD, Cultural Studies Program, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON.
2016: Master of Art, Cultural Studies Program, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON.
2014: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) and minor in Gender Equality and Social Justice, Nipissing University, North Bay, ON.
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