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S. Trimble

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Women and Gender Studies Institute, Faculty of Arts & Science

Professor S. Trimble is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream and the current Associate Undergraduate Director at the Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI). Author of Undead Ends: Stories of Apocalypse (Rutgers, 2019), her research is situated at the intersection of feminist studies and cultural studies, with a focus on the politics of pop-cultural storytelling in the US, Canada and the UK from the 1950s to the present. Winner of the Faculty of Arts & Science Superior Teaching Instructor Award (2020), Professor Trimble is an outstanding teacher, committed mentor and visionary academic leader. They created the Feminist Sports Club, an exciting wellness and graduate student teacher training initiative that draws on a network of university partners to offer sports programming linked to a new and popular undergraduate course that Professor Trimble has introduced at WGSI. Feminist Sports Club connects undergraduate and graduate students through a series of activities that includes everything from line dancing to weightlifting, representing a unique opportunity to combine embodied experiential learning, community-building and graduate professional development. Professor Trimble is also the successful recipient of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant to create a digital oral history project offering crucial pedagogical material on the field of feminist cultural studies; and is currently co-applicant on an imaginative project across Canadian universities to understand how Canadian teachers, students, administrators and community organizers use feminist pedagogy to engage in transformative outcomes and responses to violence through education. She also writes for non-specialist audiences, including, most recently, a personal essay on The Exorcist that appears in the ground-breaking anthology, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (2022).