University of Toronto, 1989, PhD
Tulane University, 1984, MA
Introduction
Dr. Mary K. Bryson (http://ubc.academia.edu/MaryKBryson) is Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, Professor, Department of Language & Literacy Education, and Senior Associate Dean, Administration and Innovation in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Bryson is the principal investigator of the Cancer’s Margins project (CIHR) and author of multiple publications concerning the political significance of sexual and gender marginalitzation, networked social media and information literacies in shaping access to cancer health knowledge and its mobilization.
Biography
Dr. Mary K. Bryson (http://ubc.academia.edu/MaryKBryson) is Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, Professor, Department of Language & Literacy Education, and Senior Associate Dean, Administration and Innovation in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Bryson is the principal investigator of the Cancer’s Margins project (CIHR) and author of multiple publications concerning the political significance of sexual and gender marginalitzation, networked social media and information literacies in shaping access to cancer health knowledge and its mobilization. Dr. Bryson is the recipient of multiple awards for their interdisciplinary scholarship, including most recently, the Significant Body of Research Award (American Educational Research Association, 2013), a Senior Fellowship at Stanford University’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research (2011), and in 2000, the Canadian Women in the Spotlight, Wired Women “Pioneer in New Media” award. Emerging from scholarly engagements with queer and feminist theory, Mary Bryson’s program of research contributes significantly to scholarship at the interdisciplinary intersections of critical studies of gender, sexuality, cancer health informatics and knowledge technologies.
http://ubc.academia.edu/MaryKBryson
Research
Contemporary health discourses – what we might call, “DIY Health” – signal a spectacularly contradictory set of recombinant and contradictory logics that include (and are not limited to) both the logics of (a) neoliberal biomedicalization — “choice, access to knowledge and individual autonomy”, and (b) health activist community-based mobilization. The advent of widespread access to broadband Internet has recalibrated the scope, participatory architecture, and distribution networks of consumer health knowledge. Rather than focusing on health or disease per se, this interdisciplinary research is designed to advance knowledge concerning how breast and reproductive cancer knowledge is organized, distributed, and authorized, and seeks to establish how people in diverse locations manage to access, contribute to, and unsettle breast and reproductive cancer knowledge, whether online or by other means. A diverse group of researchers of cultural diversity, communications media and consumer health informatics, public health policymakers, as well as health care professionals would benefit, we hold, from a better understanding of how groups that are historically marginalized in health care settings and discourses, access and engage health knowledge.
Sample Publications
Bryson, M., & Joynt, C. (2013). Under The Skin: Imag(in)ing Medicine’s Queer Pedagogies as Moving Pictures.No More Potlucks, 29. http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/under-the-skin-imagining-medicines-queer-pedagogies-as-moving-pictures-chase-joynt-m-k-bryson
Bryson, M., & Stacey, J. (2012). Cancer knowledge in the plural: Queering the biopolitics of narrative and affectivemobilities. Journal of the Medical Humanities (special issue, Queer in the Clinic). 33(4).(31 manuscript pages)
Stacey, J, & Bryson, M. (2012). Queering the temporality of cancer survivorship. Aporia. 4(1), 5-17.
Hermida, A., & Bryson, M. (2010). Complexities of networked media within the transitive spheres of globalization. New Media & Society. 12, 855-861.
Bryson, M., & MacIntosh, L. (2010). Can we play ‘Fun Gay’?: Disjuncture and difference, and the precarious mobilities of millennial queer youth narratives.International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 23(1), 101-124.
MacIntosh, L. & Bryson, M. (2008). Youth, MySpace, and the interstitial spaces of becoming and belonging. Journal of LGBT Youth: The Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Research, Policy, Practice, and Theory. 5(1), 133-145.
Bryson, M. (2007). New media and sexual subcultures: Critical perspectives on research problematics, possibilities, and practices. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education, 3(4), 109-118.
Bryson, M., MacIntosh, L., Jordan, S., & Lin, H.L. (2007). Virtually queer?: Homing devices, mobility, and un/belongings. Canadian Journal of Communication, 31(3), 791-815.
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