Instructors


Adjunct Professor and  Assistant Lecturer (she/her)

Nicolette Little is an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the 51ÁÔÆæ’s Media and Technology Studies, Master of Communications Technology, and Women’s and Gender Studies programs. Her research interests include feminist media interventions in gender-based violence (GBV), tech-facilitated violence, and mediated cultural memory. She advises the Canadian federal government, media, law enforcement, and non-profits regarding media and GBV. Her book, Memory Stones, Corpse Art and Digital Media Activism: Multimedia Projects to Address Gender-Based Violence in Canada will be out May 2026, published by University of British Columbia Press. Her current SSHRC-IDG supported work examines women’s crowdsourced interventions in dating violence, in the context of increasing online dating site use. In addition to research and teaching, Nicolette is a board member for the Canadian Communication Association, has a background in writing and publishing, and is a bestselling children’s author in Canada.

 Recent publications include:

Books and Journal Articles

  • Memory Stones, Corpse Art and Digital Media Activism: Multimedia Projects to Address Gender-Based Violence in Canada. Forthcoming with the University of British Columbia Press. Forthcoming, May 2026.
  • “Memorial-Tweeting Ontario’s Femicides: The Use Of Twitter (X) in Gender-Based Violence-Related Activism and Commemoration.” Canadian Journal of Communication, 49(2). 2024.
  • “Social Media ‘Ghosts’: How Facebook (Meta) Memories Complicates Healing for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence.” Feminist Media Studies, 23(8). 2023.

Co-Authored Journal Articles

  • “The Unsolicited Algorithm: Revealing Gendered Harms and (Non)Consent in Apple iOS Features.” Journal of Gender Studies. With Tom Divon.
  • “The Harm of Airdrop Misuse: Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence in the Everyday Lives of Young Women.” Information, Communication and Society. With Tom Divon.

Public-Facing Scholarship

  • “Features Like iPhone’s and Facebook’s ‘Memories’ Can Retraumatize Survivors of Abuse.” The Conversation (Canada). 2025, February 4.
  • “Not Everyone Loves Valentine’s Day.” Calgary Herald. 2023, February 14. with Leslie Hill.
  • “From Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Collaborative and Replicable Activism can Help Causes Gain Momentum. The Conversation (Canada). 2022, May 4.
nklittle@ualberta.ca


Assistant Lecturer
Director of Sexualities Certificate

Randi Nixon is a queer-feminist scholar whose work lies at the intersections of affect, queer theory, and equity. She teaches at the 51ÁÔÆæ and NorQuest College. She likes cooking, swimming, reading, and spending quality time with her kin. In her spare time she also moonlights as Beatrix, a ruthless justice-seeking half-demon.

rlnixon@ualberta.ca
3-69 Assiniboia Hall


Adjunct Associate Lecturer (she/her)
After working in various sectors throughout her adult life, Dr. Dorothy Woodman began graduate work in academics, first to complete research in postcolonial topics and then, following treatments for Stage 3 Breast Cancer, to focus on how the breast has material and symbolic significances and how cancer is explored in memoirs and fiction. She convocated in 2012 and began full-time work as a sessional lecturer. While her teaching occurs primarily in English departments, the interdisciplinary nature of her work brought opportunities to focus on feminist topics in gender within the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. Dr. Woodman is currently a member of an international committee exploring research collaboration and gender. She sees classrooms as communities of inquiry by incorporating participants’ knowledges and experiences and by engaging intersectional analyses while actively indigenizing/decolonizing academic work. 

Recent publications include:

  • The Cancer Plot: Terminal Immortality in Marvel’s Moral Universe. With Reginald Wiebe. Forthcoming with the 51ÁÔÆæ Press.
  • “Getting Hammered by Cancer: ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Re-examines the Hero’s Journey” The Conversation (Canada). 21 July 2022. With Reginald Wiebe.
  • “When the Phallus is a ‘Dick’: The Cultural/Material Turn to Breasts.” The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and Culture. 2022. With Reisa Klein.
  • Reimaging Breasts. Special Edition for Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, vol. 11, no. 1 (2020). Co-editor with Reisa Klein and Gabrielle Siegers.
  • “Erotic. Maternal. Cultural. Symbolic. Medical. What are Breasts? How are They Imagined? And Who Gets to Decide?” Introduction to Special Edition for Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, vol. 11, no. 1 (2020). With Reisa Klein and Gabrielle Siegers.
  • Photograph-Essay on Breast Prosthetics. For Imaginations: Journal of Cross- Cultural Image Studies, vol. 11, no. 1 (2020). With Aloys Fleishmann.

dwoodman@ualberta.ca