January 26^th, 2024

Dr. Tommy Mayberry (Yorkville University and Toronto Film School)

For January 2024, our own Dr. Tommy Mayberry shared their research from their award-winning chapter that explores visual pedagogies through a sincere and earnest look at their life as an academic drag queen – a life that is congruent of academic and drag cultures, of traditional teaching and dragged-up pedagogies. In addition to screening their (unfortunately unsuccessful) audition tape for the 5th season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” in this session, Tommy built upon this early autoethnographic foray of theirs into visual pedagogies and into teaching in drag to bring together and share an overview of the constellation of frameworks, theories, and ideas (from transgender visuality, through queer phenomenology, and to visual performance) that positions themself in their scholarship as a social justice leader with an anti-imperialist inclusive pedagogy and practice.

Link to Tommy’s audition tape [Password: QueenTommy1988]

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• Find the chapter (Chapter 5) in Visual Pedagogies: Concepts, Cases and Practices – YU Library Link; TFS Library Link
• Additional information, research, and scholarship:
  • PDF of Slide Deck: CTEI SoTL Speaker Series – TMayberry – January 2024
  • RuPedagogies of Realness: Essays on Teaching and Learning with RuPaul’s Drag Race, edited by Tommy Mayberry and Lindsay Bryde (McFarland, 2022) – YU Library Link; TFS Library Link
  • RuPedagogies of Realness 2 – The Shequel!: Essays on Teaching and Learning Under Attack with RuPaul’s Drag Race, edited by Tommy Mayberry and Lindsay Bryde (forthcoming: McFarland)