Margaret E. Toye

My research focuses on feminist ethics, an area that considers the relationships that exist/could exist between two subjects. More recently, I have concentrated on relationships that go by the name of “love,” and ask who/what are considered subjects/objects of love? Also, what is named/not named as “love?” I am a co-founder and co-convenor of the international research group “The Feminist Love Studies Network,” which emphasizes love as a potentially productive force for feminist and other political groups. I also write about the methodological implications of the recent affective/emotional turn where emotion is not only what is being studied, but how it is being studied. I am now involved with another group of scholars who are helping to consolidate the area of "Feminist Food Studies."

• 2008 Laurier Course Remission Grant.

I have employed undergraduate students as work-study students. They have assisted me with preliminary research and with organizing events for the Women and Gender Studies Program.

I am willing to supervise graduate students in many different fields including in various kinds of feminist theory including feminist affect theory, food and consumption studies, feminist postmodern literature, and projects that pursue creative forms of argument.

Besides being a core member of the MA in CAST program, I have also served on MA and PhD graduate student committees in other fields, including in Social Work, English and Education, and as an external examiner for PhDs in Philosophy and in Women and Gender Studies.

• “Love as Affective Energy: Where Feminist Love Studies Meets Feminist Affect Theory.” Feminism and the Power of Love: Interdisciplinary Interventions (Routledge 2018). Ed. Adriana García-Andrade, Lena Gunnarsson, and Anna G. Jónasdóttir
• Guest Co-editor with Ann Ferguson. Special Issue. Feminist Love Studies. Hypatia. 32.1 (Winter 2017).
• "Donna Haraway's Cyborg Touching (Up/on) Luce Irigaray's Ethics and the Interval Between: Poethics as Embodied Writing." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 27.1 (Winter 2012).
• "The Promise and the Apology: Speech-Acts, Ethics and Reading in Mavis Gallant's 'The Pegnitz Junction.'" Papers on Language and Literature. 47.2 (Spring 2011): 162-195.
• "Towards a 'Poethics of Love': Poststructuralist Feminist Ethics and Literary Creation." Feminist Theory 11.1 (April 2010): 39-55.
• “Eating Their Way Out of Patriarchy: Consuming the Female Panopticon in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus.” Women's Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal 36.7 (Oct. 2007): 477-506.

Fall 2017

• WS303 Feminist Theory
• CQ625 Ethics, Affect and Embodiment

Winter 2018

(On leave)