Cynthia Wright
School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
Associate Professor
Office: Founders College, 229
Phone: 416-736-2100 Ext: 77809
Email: cynthiaw@yorku.ca
Primary website: https://gsws.laps.yorku.ca/
On sabbatical starting July 1, 2023
Affiliated with Centre for Feminist Research, York University; Global Labour Research Centre, York University; and the Cuba Research Forum, Centre for Research on Cuba, University of Nottingham, UK.
Degrees
PhD, OISE/University of TorontoMA, Social and Political Thought, York University
BA, Honours, History, York University
Research Interests
“Diplomacies: Constructing Cuba and Canada.” (with Lana Wylie and Luis René Fernández Tabío)
In Fernández Tabío, Wright and Wylie, eds., Other Diplomacies, Other Ties: Cuba and Canada in the Shadow of the US. University of Toronto Press. (pp 3-35)
“Nationalism, Sexuality, and the Politics of Anti-Citizenship.” In Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman and Pauline Rankin, eds., We Still Demand! Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles. University of British Columbia Press. (pp 250-269)
“History, Memory and Immigration Controls.” Migration: A COMPAS Anthology, edited by Bridget Anderson and
Michael Keith. Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford. (pp. 59-60). Free download.
“The Museum of Illegal Immigration: Historical Perspectives on the
Production of Non-Citizens and Challenges to Immigration Controls.”
In Luin Goldring and Patricia Landolt, eds., Producing and Negotiating
Non-Citizenship: Precarious Legal Status in Canada. University of
Toronto Press. (pp 31-54)
“‘We Are All Foreigners’: No Borders as a Practical Political Project.”
(with Bridget Anderson and Nandita Sharma) In Peter Nyers and Kim
Rygiel, eds., Citizenship, Migrant Activism, and the Politics of Movement.
Routledge. (pp 73-91)
“Between Nation and Empire: The Fair Play for Cuba Committees and the Making of Canada-Cuba Solidarity in the 1960s.” In Robert Wright and Lana Wylie, eds., Our Place in the Sun: Canada and Cuba in the Castro Era. University of Toronto Press. (pp 96-120)
“Organizing the Motley Crew and Challenging the Security of National States.” (with Nandita Sharma) In Julia Sudbury and Margo Okazawa-Rey, eds., Activist Scholarship, Social Movements and Emancipatory Knowledge. Paradigm Press. (pp 111-128)
“Against Illegality: New Directions in Organizing by and with Non-Status People in Canada.” In Caelie Frampton, Gary Kinsman, Kate Tilleczek, Andrew Thompson, eds., Sociology for Changing the World: Social
Movements/Social Research. Fernwood. (pp 198-208)
“Momenti di emergenza.” In Sandro Mezzadra, ed. I confini della libertà: Per un’analisi politica delle migrazioni contemporanee. Rome: Derive Approdi. (pp 216-229)
“”Feminine Trifles of Vast Importance’: Writing Gender into the History of Consumption.” In Franca Iacovetta and Mariana Valverde, eds., Gender Conflicts: New Essays in Women’s History. Toronto: University of
Toronto Press. (pp 229-260). Reprinted in Chad Gaffield, ed., Constructing Modern Canada. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman.
Looking at Social Reproduction. Review essay of Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression. Edited by Tithi Bhattacharya. London: Pluto Press, 2017. Reviewed in Against the Current 205 (March/April 2020): 18-20
Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality and the Latin American Pink Tide. Elizabeth Jay Friedman, editor. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. Reviewed in Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 45, 1 (2020): 143-144.
Cuban Revolution in America: Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968-1992. Teishan A. Latner. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Reviewed in Labour/Le Travail 82 (Fall 2018): 281-283
Sexual Revolutions in Cuba: Passion, Politics and Memory. Carrie Hamilton. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Reviewed in Gender and History 26, 1: 188-189
Migration and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders, and Gender. Seyla Benhabib and Judith Resnick, eds. New York and London: New York University Press, 2009. Reviewed in Socialist Studies 6, 2: 197-199
“Proliferating Borders and Precarious Queers: Migrant Justice Organizing Beyond LGBT Inclusion.” International Journal of Migration and Border Studies 4, 1-2: 103-124
“Why No Borders?” (with Bridget Anderson and Nandita Sharma) Refuge: Canada’s Periodical on Refugees 26, 2: 5-18
“Decolonizing Resistance: Challenging Colonial States.” (with Nandita Sharma) Social Justice 35, 3: 120-138
“Moments of Emergence: Organizing By and With Undocumented and Non-Citizen People in Canada after 911.” Refuge: Canada’s Periodical on Refugees 21, 3: 5-15
“Nowhere at Home: Gender, Race and the Making of Anti-Immigrant Discourse in Canada.” Atlantis 24, 2: 38-48
“Rewriting the Modern: Reflections on Race, Nation and the Death of a Department Store.” Histoire sociale/Social History 33, 65: 153-167
“Emma Goldman is Alive and Well and Living on Vaughan Road: Revisiting Her Toronto Exile and Legacy at the 100th Anniversary of her Deportation.” [with Mikhail Bjorge and Franca Iacovetta] Winnipeg General Strike Centenary conference, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg
“Other Diplomacies, Other Ties: Conceptualizing Cuba-Canada Relations.” Latin American Studies Association Congress, Barcelona, Spain
Roundtable contributor for joint session, “Cuban Studies in Canada: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?” Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Association for Studies in International Development. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ryerson University, Toronto
“Cuba, Canada and Cold War Feminism Before and After Cuban Women Now.” Panel on Radical Texts and Political Acts: Forty Years of Reading Margaret Randall. Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Toronto
Remembering Emma Goldman: Pandemics, Prisons and Mutual Aid (with Franca Iacovetta). Blog post for ActiveHistory.ca website. June 26, 2020
Studying Canada in Cuba, Studying Cuba in Canada: A Roundtable Discussion. Socialist Studies/Etudes Socialistes 14, 1
Special issue of Refuge: Canada’s Periodical on Refugees 26, 2 on No Borders as Practical Politics (co-edited with Bridget Anderson, COMPAS, University of Oxford and Nandita Sharma, University of Hawai’i)
Approach to Teaching
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2024 | AP/SXST3602 3.0 | A | Transnational Sexualities | LECT |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/SXST4600 6.0 | A | Advanced Seminar in Sexuality Studies | SEMR |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/SXST4600 6.0 | A | Advanced Seminar in Sexuality Studies | SEMR |
| Winter 2025 | GS/GFWS6001 3.0 | M | Women, Genders, Sexualities | SEMR |
On sabbatical starting July 1, 2023
Affiliated with Centre for Feminist Research, York University; Global Labour Research Centre, York University; and the Cuba Research Forum, Centre for Research on Cuba, University of Nottingham, UK.
Degrees
PhD, OISE/University of TorontoMA, Social and Political Thought, York University
BA, Honours, History, York University
Research Interests
All Publications
“Diplomacies: Constructing Cuba and Canada.” (with Lana Wylie and Luis René Fernández Tabío)
In Fernández Tabío, Wright and Wylie, eds., Other Diplomacies, Other Ties: Cuba and Canada in the Shadow of the US. University of Toronto Press. (pp 3-35)
“Nationalism, Sexuality, and the Politics of Anti-Citizenship.” In Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman and Pauline Rankin, eds., We Still Demand! Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles. University of British Columbia Press. (pp 250-269)
“History, Memory and Immigration Controls.” Migration: A COMPAS Anthology, edited by Bridget Anderson and
Michael Keith. Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford. (pp. 59-60). Free download.
“The Museum of Illegal Immigration: Historical Perspectives on the
Production of Non-Citizens and Challenges to Immigration Controls.”
In Luin Goldring and Patricia Landolt, eds., Producing and Negotiating
Non-Citizenship: Precarious Legal Status in Canada. University of
Toronto Press. (pp 31-54)
“‘We Are All Foreigners’: No Borders as a Practical Political Project.”
(with Bridget Anderson and Nandita Sharma) In Peter Nyers and Kim
Rygiel, eds., Citizenship, Migrant Activism, and the Politics of Movement.
Routledge. (pp 73-91)
“Between Nation and Empire: The Fair Play for Cuba Committees and the Making of Canada-Cuba Solidarity in the 1960s.” In Robert Wright and Lana Wylie, eds., Our Place in the Sun: Canada and Cuba in the Castro Era. University of Toronto Press. (pp 96-120)
“Organizing the Motley Crew and Challenging the Security of National States.” (with Nandita Sharma) In Julia Sudbury and Margo Okazawa-Rey, eds., Activist Scholarship, Social Movements and Emancipatory Knowledge. Paradigm Press. (pp 111-128)
“Against Illegality: New Directions in Organizing by and with Non-Status People in Canada.” In Caelie Frampton, Gary Kinsman, Kate Tilleczek, Andrew Thompson, eds., Sociology for Changing the World: Social
Movements/Social Research. Fernwood. (pp 198-208)
“Momenti di emergenza.” In Sandro Mezzadra, ed. I confini della libertà: Per un’analisi politica delle migrazioni contemporanee. Rome: Derive Approdi. (pp 216-229)
“”Feminine Trifles of Vast Importance’: Writing Gender into the History of Consumption.” In Franca Iacovetta and Mariana Valverde, eds., Gender Conflicts: New Essays in Women’s History. Toronto: University of
Toronto Press. (pp 229-260). Reprinted in Chad Gaffield, ed., Constructing Modern Canada. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman.
Looking at Social Reproduction. Review essay of Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression. Edited by Tithi Bhattacharya. London: Pluto Press, 2017. Reviewed in Against the Current 205 (March/April 2020): 18-20
Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality and the Latin American Pink Tide. Elizabeth Jay Friedman, editor. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. Reviewed in Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 45, 1 (2020): 143-144.
Cuban Revolution in America: Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968-1992. Teishan A. Latner. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Reviewed in Labour/Le Travail 82 (Fall 2018): 281-283
Sexual Revolutions in Cuba: Passion, Politics and Memory. Carrie Hamilton. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Reviewed in Gender and History 26, 1: 188-189
Migration and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders, and Gender. Seyla Benhabib and Judith Resnick, eds. New York and London: New York University Press, 2009. Reviewed in Socialist Studies 6, 2: 197-199
“Proliferating Borders and Precarious Queers: Migrant Justice Organizing Beyond LGBT Inclusion.” International Journal of Migration and Border Studies 4, 1-2: 103-124
“Why No Borders?” (with Bridget Anderson and Nandita Sharma) Refuge: Canada’s Periodical on Refugees 26, 2: 5-18
“Decolonizing Resistance: Challenging Colonial States.” (with Nandita Sharma) Social Justice 35, 3: 120-138
“Moments of Emergence: Organizing By and With Undocumented and Non-Citizen People in Canada after 911.” Refuge: Canada’s Periodical on Refugees 21, 3: 5-15
“Nowhere at Home: Gender, Race and the Making of Anti-Immigrant Discourse in Canada.” Atlantis 24, 2: 38-48
“Rewriting the Modern: Reflections on Race, Nation and the Death of a Department Store.” Histoire sociale/Social History 33, 65: 153-167
“Emma Goldman is Alive and Well and Living on Vaughan Road: Revisiting Her Toronto Exile and Legacy at the 100th Anniversary of her Deportation.” [with Mikhail Bjorge and Franca Iacovetta] Winnipeg General Strike Centenary conference, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg
“Other Diplomacies, Other Ties: Conceptualizing Cuba-Canada Relations.” Latin American Studies Association Congress, Barcelona, Spain
Roundtable contributor for joint session, “Cuban Studies in Canada: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?” Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Association for Studies in International Development. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ryerson University, Toronto
“Cuba, Canada and Cold War Feminism Before and After Cuban Women Now.” Panel on Radical Texts and Political Acts: Forty Years of Reading Margaret Randall. Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Toronto
Remembering Emma Goldman: Pandemics, Prisons and Mutual Aid (with Franca Iacovetta). Blog post for ActiveHistory.ca website. June 26, 2020
Studying Canada in Cuba, Studying Cuba in Canada: A Roundtable Discussion. Socialist Studies/Etudes Socialistes 14, 1
Special issue of Refuge: Canada’s Periodical on Refugees 26, 2 on No Borders as Practical Politics (co-edited with Bridget Anderson, COMPAS, University of Oxford and Nandita Sharma, University of Hawai’i)
Approach to Teaching
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2024 | AP/SXST3602 3.0 | A | Transnational Sexualities | LECT |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/SXST4600 6.0 | A | Advanced Seminar in Sexuality Studies | SEMR |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/SXST4600 6.0 | A | Advanced Seminar in Sexuality Studies | SEMR |
| Winter 2025 | GS/GFWS6001 3.0 | M | Women, Genders, Sexualities | SEMR |
