Lindsay Rodgers

Researcher and Instructional Designer with 10 + years experience in, research, teaching, and learning. Practised at constructing and working within spaces that align with principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion and consensus-based decision making. Committed to conducting rigorous research, sound analysis, and translating findings into various media and for multiple audiences. Adept at working independently and collaboratively on projects.

• The Agnes Gets Hysterical. Film Series., The Hysterics Collective (Lindsay Rodgers Carina Magazzeni, Rachel Williamson, Robin MacDonald.), Definition of Knowledge, Courtney Gilmour, Digital, 2021

• Pop & Politics: State of the Field/ State of the World, Concordia University, Feminism is Fun(ny): Assuming Positions of Power on the Stand-up Stage, 2020

• Feminist and Controversial Humour Working Group, Concordia University, Stand-Up Comedy as Feminist Activism, 2020

• Hopes and Dreams (Live Comedy Event), The Hysterics Collective Collective (Lindsay Rodgers, Carina Magazzeni, Rachel Williamson, Robin MacDonald.), Carol Zoccoli, Coko & Daphney, Courtney Gilmour, 2019

• Laugh it Up (Live Comedy Event), The Hysterics Collective (Lindsay Rodgers, Carina Magazzeni, Rachel Williamson, Robin MacDonald.), Tranna Wintour, Nour Hadidi, Amy Bugg, Isabel Zaw-Tun, Stephanie Pangowish, 2019

• Just a Joke (Live Comedy Event), They Hysterics Collective Collective (Lindsay Rodgers, Carina Magazzeni, Rachel Williamson, Robin MacDonald.), Ashley Moffatt, Aba Amuquandoh, Ana-Marija Stojic, Definition of Knowledge, 2018

• Mixed Bill, University of Salford, Stand-Up Comedy as Feminist Practise, 2017

• B. Bailey. Interview with Lindsay Rodgers, Femme4FM, CFRC 101.9 FM, Kingston, ON, 2017

• Humorous> Disruptions Conference, University of Montreal, Making a Spectacle: The Female Grotesque in Sketch Comedy, 2016

Department of Communication Studies

7141 Sherbrooke St. West 
Montreal, Quebec
H4B 1R6

Dear Dr. Miller

I am writing today to request to affiliate with the Department of Communication Studies as an adjunct or affiliated professor.[TG1]  My current role as the Knowledge Mobilization Advisor at Concordia Applied AI Institute affords me opportunities to conduct interdisciplinary research and design interactive knowledge translation activities that align well with the goals of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute.

This research builds on my doctoral dissertation in the Cultural Studies program Not a Joke: Women’s work and feminist laughter in stand-up comedy where I conducted an interdisciplinary analysis of the discursive structures and affective politics of feminist stand-up comedy. I continue to work as a feminist comedy producer through the Hysterics Collective. Here is our most recent output, featuring comic Courtney Gilmour, resulting from a collaboration with the Agnes Etherington Arts Centre called Agnes Gets Hysterical. Stay tuned for the next one featuring local Montreal comic Tranna Wintour!

Over the summer I conceptualized and was awarded a 200k grant where I lead a team of ten research assistants and community partners (including Women on Web, Women in AI, Queer Tech, and Digital Moment) in designing and developing practical tools and resources that Artificial Intelligence researchers, educators, employers, and practitioners could use to improve gender equity within STEM fields broadly and in AI sectors more specifically. To this end, we created a set of trading cards that depict women and gender non-conforming folks who have made contributions to the fields of computing and AI and situated them on a timeline. We developed a set of normative principles that address gender inequity in AI in two central ways: First, these principles call for fostering a welcoming and inclusive AI work environment that adheres to the values of equality, respect, reflexivity, and accountability. Second, the principles highlight the need to critically re-evaluate ML/AI research practices and their social impacts to ensure more inclusive and socially responsible AI systems.

We are currently building on this project in the form of a NFRF-T application. I am playing a central role in this application, working closely with Dr. Tanja Tajmel, the Nominated Primary Investigator, and will supervise graduate students in the realization of the application and (hopefully!) awarded project. I’d love to work more closely with students from the Simone de Beauvoir Institute on this.

Interdisciplinarity is a central guiding principle of the Applied AI Institute, and I think my research would be enriched through an affiliation with Department of Communication Studies. Please let me know if you are open to this possibility and what the process for making a formal request is. I have attached my C.V for your review.

Warmly,

Lindsay.