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Adan Jerreat-Poole PhD

Ethel Louise Armstrong Post-Doctoral Fellow (2020-2022)
Areas of ExpertiseFeminist digital media; Mad and disability studies; Queer theory; Digital humanities; Video games ; Social media; Life writing/automedia

Twitter @AdanJerreat

I am a Mad/disabled nonbinary white settler living on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee nations. I’m interested in reimagining our relationships with each other, our bodies, and technology through an ethics of intimacy, access, and care. How can we use technology and media to transform our society and generate accessible futures? How can ethical feminist networks challenge the violence of settler capitalism? My work explores the way disabled queer and trans feminists use digital media as tools of collective care, community-building, and activism. I also look to science fiction and pop culture as sites to do this critical dreaming. 

Research

Research Interests:

  • Hybrid digital and analog forms
  • Critical game design
  • Crip futurity
  • Science fiction
  • Popular culture
  • Chronic pain

Research Projects:

  • Universe Design: The Crip-Girl Cyborg in Speculative Futures

  • Jerreat-Poole, A. (Forthcoming May 2021). The Boi of Feather and Steel. Metamorphosis duology. Toronto: Dundurn Press. Novel
  • Jerreat-Poole, A. (September 2020). The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass. Metamorphosis duology. Toronto: Dundurn Press. Novel.
  • Jerreat-Poole, A. (2019). Nonbinary: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure. First Person Scholar. 2019. Videogame. http://www.firstpersonscholar.com/nonbinary-twine-game/
  • Jerreat-Poole, A. (2019). In the Garden. The New Quarterly. 149. Short fiction.
  • Jerreat-Poole, A. (2015). Easter Traditions. Qwerty Magazine. 34: 165-168. Short fiction.
  • Jerreat-Poole, A. (2015). The Prime Meridian. Soliloquies Anthology. 19.2: 53-58. Short fiction.
  • Jerreat-Poole, A. (2014). Zoning. The New Quarterly. 130: 133-134. Short fiction.

Select Chapters:

  •  Jerreat-Poole, A. (in press). Are scars citations?: Ethical non-reading, self-harm, and popular culture. In O. L. Netzert (Ed.), Autobiography, ethics, relations. Waterloo: WLU Press.
  • Abu Rass, R., & Jerreat-Poole, A. (in press). Contaminating national identity through intercultural sex: (Im)purity and the pandemic. In R. Varghese (Ed.), Sex and the pandemic. Regina: University of Regina Press.
  • Jerreat-Poole, A. (2021). Chronic fem(me)bots: Keywords for crip feminists. In S. MacDonald, B. I. Wiens, M. MacArthur, & M. Radzikowska (Eds.), Networked feminisms: Activist assemblies and digital practices (ch. 3). Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Jerreat-Poole, A. (2019). Gamified suburban violence and the feminist pleasure of destructive play: rezoning warzones. In J. Saklofske, A. Arbuckle, & J. Bath (Eds.), Feminist war games?: Mechanisms of war, feminist values, and interventional games (ch. 5). Abingdon: Routledge.

Select Journal Articles:

  • Jerreat-Poole, A. (in press). Crip encounters in the corporate hashtag: Complicating #BellLetsTalk. Disability Studies Quarterly.
  • Jerreat-Poole, A. (in press). Designing an accessible virtual classroom: Cripping the syllabus. a/b: AutoBiography Studies.
  • Jerreat-Poole, A. (2022). Virtual reality, disability, and futurity: Cripping technologies in Half-Life: Alyx. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 16(1), 59-75.
  • Jerreat-Poole, A., & Brophy, S. (2020). Encounters with Kusama: Disability, feminism, and the mediated Mad art of #InfiniteKusama. Feminist Media Studies, 21(6), 905-922.
  • Jerreat-Poole, A. (2020). Sick, slow, cyborg: crip futurity in Mass Effect. Game Studies, 20(1).  (external link) http://gamestudies.org/2001/articles/jerreatpoole (external link) 

  • Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, McMaster University, 2019-2020
  • SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, McMaster University, 2017- 2019