Amar Wahab is Professor of Gender and Sexuality in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University. He has taught in the areas of critical sexuality studies, critical studies in masculinity, critical race studies, introductory and advanced sociological theory and Caribbean cultural studies. His research interests include: race, sexuality and indentureship, sexual citizenship in liberal and postcolonial nation-state formations (mainly related to the Caribbean and Canada), race and queer transnational politics, critiques of queer liberalism, and race, gender and the politics of representation. His current research project focuses on the erotics of Indian indentureship.

Research Interests

Approach to Teaching

My theoretical and methodological interests in intersectional and interdisciplinary studies of race, gender and sexuality inform my under/graduate teaching and supervisory/mentoring philosophy and practice. Specifically, my teaching philosophy is based on a critical, interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to learning that aims to inspire intellectual curiosity about the study of power and difference – an approach that aligns solidly with the School’s and York University’s record of critical thinking and praxis, as well as with the core pillars (i.e. social construction, critical intersectional analysis and socio-political change) of the fields that ground my profession. I firmly believe that critical pedagogies are also meant to push students to consider ‘problem-solving’ approaches alongside a conceptualization of the ‘problem space’ of power – a perspective that illuminates the complexities, conditioning elements, potentialities and limitations of how we come to think about social and political ‘problems’ as constructions.

Current Courses

Amar Wahab is Professor of Gender and Sexuality in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University. He has taught in the areas of critical sexuality studies, critical studies in masculinity, critical race studies, introductory and advanced sociological theory and Caribbean cultural studies. His research interests include: race, sexuality and indentureship, sexual citizenship in liberal and postcolonial nation-state formations (mainly related to the Caribbean and Canada), race and queer transnational politics, critiques of queer liberalism, and race, gender and the politics of representation. His current research project focuses on the erotics of Indian indentureship.

Degrees

Research Interests

Approach to Teaching

My theoretical and methodological interests in intersectional and interdisciplinary studies of race, gender and sexuality inform my under/graduate teaching and supervisory/mentoring philosophy and practice. Specifically, my teaching philosophy is based on a critical, interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to learning that aims to inspire intellectual curiosity about the study of power and difference – an approach that aligns solidly with the School’s and York University’s record of critical thinking and praxis, as well as with the core pillars (i.e. social construction, critical intersectional analysis and socio-political change) of the fields that ground my profession. I firmly believe that critical pedagogies are also meant to push students to consider ‘problem-solving’ approaches alongside a conceptualization of the ‘problem space’ of power – a perspective that illuminates the complexities, conditioning elements, potentialities and limitations of how we come to think about social and political ‘problems’ as constructions.

Current Courses