Sessional Lecturer | SDS375H1 | Special Topics in Sexual Diversity Studies

Date Posted: 03/05/2024
Req ID: 36288
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science
Department: Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

Description:

Course number and title: SDS375H1 | Special Topics in Sexual Diversity Studies

Section: LEC0101       

Course description: This seminar is intended to expose students in the Sexual Diversity Studies program to topics that may not be covered by permanent university courses.  Topics vary from year to year. The description for this year is below:

This course centers the Global South to think about alternative histories, theories, and formations of sexuality. It focuses on global south queer studies, postcolonial sexuality studies, and Third World feminisms, to think about what queerness means across different geopolitical sites at the intersections of race, ethnicity, caste, class, and religion. Through an interdisciplinary approach, we explore legal, cultural, economic, and political dimensions of sexuality as identification, lived experience, and a form of power. What might the history of indentureship tell us about the history of sexuality, diaspora, and empire? What are the sexual politics of postcolonial nationalism and citizenship? What role has the sacred played in the understanding of sexuality? The course seeks to 1) to challenge and unsettle Euro-American paradigms of sex, gender and sexuality, 2) to think through how sexuality is constructed and regulated at the intersections of postcolonial capital, new forms of empire, and transnational capital, and global flows of migration, and (3) to consider how hegemonic notions of gender, sex, and sexuality are resisted and transformed in the Global South.

Estimated course enrolment: 30
Estimated TA support:  None

Class schedule: Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:00 - 12:00  

This course is scheduled to be delivered synchronously online.  

Sessional dates of appointment: May 1, 2024 – June 30, 2024 

Salary (0.5 FCE):  

*includes vacation pay   

Sessional Lecturer I: $9,457.90
Sessional Lecturer I Long Term: $9,930.79
Sessional Lecturer II: $10,121.77
Sessional Lecturer II Long Term: $10,326.62
Sessional Lecturer III: $10,362.76
Sessional Lecturer III Long Term: $10,570.02

Please note that should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.

Qualifications:  

• Minimum Ph.D. candidate / Ph.D. in a relevant field
• Experience in teaching undergraduate courses in sexuality studies and related fields is preferred

 Description of duties: 

• Coordination of an undergraduate course
• Preparation and delivery of lectures in this course
• Preparation, supervision and grading of tests and examinations in accordance with University regulations; submission of final grades
• Providing office hours for academic support of students

Application instructions: Interested individuals must submit an updated CV, cover letter and CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Application Form (available at  https://uoft.me/CUPE-3902-Unit-3-Application-Form ) by email to Giuseppe Bellissimo, Prog Admin Coordinator at [email protected] .

Closing Date: 03/27/2024, 11:59PM EDT
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This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement. 

 It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolment. Should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.  

Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II or Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with Article 14:12 of the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 collective agreement.

Please note: Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 collective agreement rather than the Unit 3 collective agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 collective agreement.