Allison Norris

Biography

Allison (A.b.) Norris is a PhD student in Communication who holds degrees in Creative Writing, Film, and Cultural Studies and has taught university courses in Women’s and Gender Studies, new media activism, and popular culture. Informed by her creative practice as a writer, director, and producer, Allison’s academic work has focused on cultural and material conditions of production. Her research at Carleton considers the distribution of media via various platforms and uses Queer theory and research methods along with intersectional frameworks to explore how queer content and content producers resist marginalization within these contexts. 

Allison’s work is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship.