Trish Salah Trish Salah joined the department in 2006. She is currently working on her Ph.D. at York University in Toronto. Trish’s current research is in transgender studies. Her work has been supported by many granting agencies including the Canada Council, Ontario Art’s Council and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Along with her work at Bishop’s Trish also teaches at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University in Montreal. PUBLICATIONS: Book: Wanting In Arabic: Poems. Toronto: Tsar Publications, 2002 Articles: "What’s all the Yap? Reading Mirha-Soleil Ross’ Performance of Activist Pedagogy" Special Issue on Spoken Word Performance, Canadian Theatre Review. T.L.Cowan, guest editor. forthcoming Winter 2007 "Trans-fixed in Lesbian Paradise: Reflections on the Toronto Women’s Bathhouse" Special Issue on Sexy Feminisms: Trans Formations in Feminist Studies, Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal. Susanne Luhman and Rachel Warburton, guest editors. forthcoming Winter 2007 "Introductory Notes—Memory Foretelling the Story" with Sara Matthews and Dina Georgis. Special Issue on Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall On Your Knees, Canadian Review of American Studies. Dina Georgis, Sara Matthews, Trish Salah, editors. Volume 35, No.2, 2005. "What Memory Wants: broken tongue, stranger fugue in Fall On Your Knees" Special Issue on Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall On Your Knees, Canadian Review of American Studies. Dina Georgis, Sara Matthews, Trish Salah, editors. Volume 35, No.2, 2005. "intersexuality," "transgender," "transsexuality—gender dysphoria" entries. Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories. Lorraine Code, editor. London: Routledge, 2000 Reports and Educational materials: "Supplementary Considerations (on the situation of Trans, of Colour and Sex Working Youth)" for No Place Like Home: Final Research Report on the Pridehouse Project. Suzanne de Castell, Principal Researcher. Vancouver: Human Resources Development Canada & The PrideCare Society, 2002. Conference Papers/Panels/Presentations: "Slips down the Throat: Invaginating Voice" Her Poetics Forum. The Scream Literary Festival. Toronto, July 5, 2006. "Affective Inscriptions of ‘the Political’ in Transsexual and Transgender Discourses" Roundtable on Gender. CSAA / SCSA 2006 Meetings. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, June 2 2006. "Making Representations: Practices and Limits of Trans Solidarity in Canadian Labour." Trans-Equity: Pasts, Presents, Futures. The Centre for Feminist Research, York University, April 28, 2006. "Queer Politics after Gay Marriage," Roundtable for Queer Identities Week, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, October 24, 2005. "Trans Poetics of An-Identity?" Roundtable on An-Identity. Les Mois de la Performance, Gallery La Centrale, Montreal, Quebec, October 17, 2004. "Raising Consciousness with the Unconscious: the Uncanny Pedagogy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer" at Slayage: The BTVS Conference. Middle Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, May 28-30, 2004. "Organizing against the law? Reflections on coalitional politics, trans inclusion and ‘impossible’ sexes," Symposium on Transgender/Transsexual Theory, Organizing, Cultural Production, Graduate Programme in Women's Studies, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Nov. 29, 2002 "Defining Designed Women: Trans-Inclusion in Women’s Spaces," chair/discussant, The Canadian Women’s Studies Association Conference, New College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, May 26, 2002 "Transsexual on Campus: Occasions for Activism," and "A Desire for Becoming: Itineraries of Trans Identification," The Out @ York—Expanding Positive Spaces Symposium, York University, Toronto, Ontario, February 27, 2002. "Between Psychic Stakes and Violent Schoolgirls: the queer passions of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society: Psychoanalysis and Social Change. Rutgers University, New Jersey, Nov. 9-11, 2001 "Trans People At Work: Session 1, Workplace Issues for Transsexual/Transgender Workers; Session 2, Strategizing Change/Building Bridges (Community Consult); Session 3, Sex/Work Struggles," track organizer and moderator, Sexin’ Change Trans Conference, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Oct. 12-14, 2001. "Gender and Race in Writing: Shani Mootoo, Jean Noble and Trish Salah," panel discussant, Sexual Diversity Studies Programme, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Nov. 17, 2000. "Femme-To-Femme: Queer Affects, Queer Identities" at the Canadian Gay and Lesbian Scholars’ Association Conference, University of Alberta, Ed., Alta, May 22-25, 2000. "What Memory Wants: Queer music, stranger tongue in Fall On Your Knees" at Performing Unnatural Acts: Critically Queering Racial Cultural Studies, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, November 5-6, 1999. "Transsexual Cultural Production" panel coordinator and moderator for Counting Past 2, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, October 13-16, 1999. "Transsexuality in its Cultural Contexts" panel coordinator and moderator for Counting Past 2, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, October 13-16, 1999. "Narrating Community: examining Transsexual and Trans-genre texts" Explorations Lecture Series, The Toronto Centre for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Toronto, Ontario. April 14, 1999. "Transgenders and Trans-genres: a queer k/not to cut for sex to change" for the Sex On The Edge conference, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, October 9-11, 1998. Arts writing/Interviews/Reviews: (Sooner, Margaret Christakos) review for This Magazine. March, 2006 (Kill the Robot, Maggie MacDonald and Code White, Debra Anderson) "Worlds Apart" review for Montreal Hour, February 9-16, 2006 Entries for ‘Fashion’ and ‘Performing Arts’ sections. Moon Metro: Montreal Guide, 2nd Edition. Erin Raber, ed. Emeryville, CA.: Avalon Travel Publishing, 2005. "Spectacular Work: Interview with Viviane Namaste" Montreal Hour (Volume13:11) April 14-20, 2005 "International People’s Day? Interview with Kate Bornstein" Montreal Hour (Volume: 13:08) March 3-9, 2005 "Swingers Club on Trial" Montreal Hour (Volume: 13:06) February 10-16, 2005 "Fear of a Trans Planet" in Trade: Queer Things. Vol.1, No.3, Fall. (2000) (Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communities, Dawn Atkins, editor) Transgender Tapestry Fall (2000) (Counting Past 2: Performance, Film-Video, Spoken Word with Transsexual Nerve) TNT: Transsexual News Telegraph 9 Autumn/Winter (1999-2000) (Gen(re)cide, Adeena Karasick) Word: Toronto’s Literary Calendar February (1997) "Speaking Queerly: Trish Salah in conversation with Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick." index: Montreal’s Literary Calendar December/January (1995-96) (Word Up!: the spoken word cd anthology, various artists) index: Montreal’s Literary Calendar October (1995) (Queeries: an anthology of gay male prose, Denis Denisoff, editor) index: Montreal’s Literary Calendar April (1995) "Windows on the Virtual: Thomas Jelanak and Trish Salah in conversation with Arthur and Marilouise Kroker" index: Montreal’s Literary Calendar October (1995) "Tessera, Face a Face a Face: Trish Salah in conversation with Lianne Moyes and Erin Mouré." index: Montreal’s Literary Calendar June (1995) (Madonnarama: Essays on Sex and Popular Culture, Lisa Frank and Paul Smith, editors) The MLA Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter Spring (1994) (Challenging Times: The Women’s Movement in Canada and the United States, Constance Backhouse and David Flaherty, editors.) The Montreal Review of Books Summer (1992) Prose and Poetry in Journals and Anthologies: "Re: Negotiations", "Object Use." New Writing from Arab-America. Natalya Handal, ed., New York: St. Martin’s Press, in press. "3 poems." Special Issue on Queer Poetics. EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts #3 (Winter 2007) "Surgical Diary" Sexing the Maple: A Canadian Sourcebook. Richard Cavell & Peter Dickinson, eds. New York: The Broadview Press, 2006. "red bra [] heroics [Boolean]," "rape [] erotics [Boolean]," "3 am on Maitland," "H_hesitates" Drunken Boat #8 (Summer 2006) "Diagnostic Detour." Transgender Tapestry. 108 (Summer 2005) "Ardour and Duration." gam: a biannual survey of Great Lakes writing. 2 (Spring 2004) "Gink, Origin of." Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws. Zoe Whittall, ed., Toronto: McGilligan, 2003. "What Daphne Wrote Georgia," "Fata Morgana [Ferial Mirage]." Torquere: Journal of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association. 4/5 (2002-2003) "Re: Negotiations." Critical Times 1 (Fall 2003) "Seven Years [Outtakes]." Matrix 62 (Fall 2002) "Red Like a Femme", "Medusa." Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity. Chloe Brushwood Rose and Anna Camilleri, ed., Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002 "Ghazals from The Book of Suicides", "Teenage Trans Vamp." Bent On Writing: The Clit Lit Anthology. Elizabeth Ruth, ed., Toronto: Canadian Scholar’s Press/The Women’s Press, 2002 "draughts of Purim." Fireweed No. 75 (Summer 2002) "June 15th: a fragment." The Peak, Vol. 34, No. 1 (September 2001) "Phoenicia ≠ Lebanon." Ribsauce: a cd/anthology of words by women. Taien Ng-Chan, ed., Montreal: Vehicule Press, 2001 "Ghazals for Dana International: Sharon Cohen." in Fireweed No. 69, (Summer 2000) "Ghazals in Fugue", "Phoenicia ≠ Lebanon." The Diasporic Imagination: Asian American Representations, Somdatta Mandal, ed., New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2000 "Ballard’s Angel", "In this Reel July is Humid." Queen Street Quarterly Vol. 3, 3, (Fall 1999) "Wanting in Arabic", "Hysteria of Origins." Descant 106, (Fall 1999) "Trans-Fixed in (Lesbian) Paradise." Willyboy 7, (May 1999) "Fawn Gets Orchid." Tessera 24, Fall (1998) "Phoenicia ≠ Lebanon." Borderlines 46, Spring (1998) "when there are three." Tessera 19, Winter (1995) "Liszt Disappears." Blood+Aphorisms 19, Spring (1995) Contact tsalah@ubishops.ca