Jasmine Rault

Jasmine Rault is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough and the Faculty of Information at University of Toronto. Professor Rault also teaches graduate courses towards the Collaborative Specialization in Sexual Diversity Studies. Before coming to U of T, Professor Rault was an Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at Eugene Lang College at The New School and has a PhD from Art History & Communication Studies at McGill University.

Professor Rault’s research focuses on media, technology and culture with an eye to the mediations of gender, race and sexuality in architecture and design, digital cultures and economies, arts and social movements. This includes publications on the confluence between coloniality, digitality and architectural modernity (American Studies Quarterly), “White Noise/White Affects” in queer popular culture (Feminist Media Studies), “Relajo and the Affects of Queer Activism in Mexico” (Scholar & Feminist Online), risk and intimate networks in queer digital archives (Women & Performance) and more in journals such as Ephemera, Ada, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture; Archives of American Art. Rault’s first book is Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In (Ashgate/Routledge).