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M. C. Jonet

Associate Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Contact Info
mjonet@nmsu.edu
Breland Hall, Rm. 254A

About

  • Co-Founder, Co-Director, Feminist Border Arts
  • Personal Website
  • Pronouns: she, they, and my name

Education

Ph.D., English - Critical Theory and Cultural Studies with a Graduate Concentration in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, 2007 (Purdue University); M.A., English with a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, 2001 (Indiana State University); M.A., The Humanities, 2000 (Indiana State University); M.A., French Language and Literature, 1995 (Indiana State University); B.A., French Language and Literature, 1993 (Indiana State University)

Research & Teaching Areas

Queer and Feminist Studies & Theorizing; Film, Literary, and Cultural Studies (20th and 21st century queer & feminist transmedia & cultural production, aesthetics, affect, & desire in queer public cultures); Research-Creation; Digital Pedagogies; Digital Short Film & New Media Art Curation (feminist, queer, transnational public cultures - video art, avant garde cinema, experimental film)

Courses

Introduction to Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; Masculinities Studies; Feminist and Queer Theories; Gender & Film Studies; Alternative Genders & Sexualities; Popular Music and Visual Media

Select Publications

“Queering Online Pedagogies in Gender and Sexuality Studies.” Co-authored with Laura Anh Williams. in Designing Intersectional Online Education: Critical Teaching and Learning Practices. Eds. Xeturah M. Woodley and Mary Rice. Routledge. 2022.

Free and Open to the Public: Film Festival Curation as Public Scholarship.” Co-authored with Laura Anh Williams. MLA Profession (Spring 2019).

“Desire and Queer Adolescence: Céline Sciamma’s Naissance des pieuvres.” Journal of Popular Culture. 50.5 (2017): 1127-1142.

“Our Graphics, Ourselves: Graphic Narrative and the Gender Studies Classroom” Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives: Essays on Theory, Strategies, and Practice. Ed. Lan Dong. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., Inc. 2013. 119-129.

Editorial Board

Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture (Journal ISSN 20555695, ONLINE ISSN 20555709)

Co-founder & Co-Director

Feminist Border Arts (an arts-humanities research-creation collaboration and platform); Feminist Border Arts Film Festival (curated feminist, LGBTQIA+, and transnational digital film shorts)

Creative Practice

Time-based Media Arts (video art & short filmmaking; mixed media collage & design, gif art, & design; sound art and music production); Queer & Feminist Aesthetics & Praxis; Public and Digital Humanities

Digital Storytelling: Pedagogy, Creativity, & Theorizing

Select Filmmaking and Film Curation

“Road,” Digital Video, 2 minutes, color, sound, 2020. Official Selection, Basement Films: 30 Years of Undependent Media. Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM. July 15-October 22.

 “Speak Near,” HD video, 3 minutes, color, sound, 2020. (invited) “FBAFF Retrospective in Feminisms,” 516 ARTS/Guild Cinema, Albuquerque, NM. October 2020.

Feminist Border Arts Film Festival: Retrospective in Feminisms, in collaboration with 516 ARTS “Feminisms” exhibition, and Guild Cinema, Albuquerque, NM. October 2020.