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Dr. Peter Hobbs
 
Instructor, Faculty of Art
OCAD University
100 McCaul Street
Toronto, ON
Canada, M5T 1W1 
 
Email: phobbs@faculty.ocadu.ca

Education:
2017: Ph.D. in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
         Dissertation: Chemical Intimacies and Toxic Publics
         Supervisor: Dr. Catriona Sandilands
2006: M.A. in Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester
          Thesis: A Cultural History of the Gay Bathhouse
          Supervisor: Dr. Douglas Crimp
2000: M.F.A. in Sculpture-Installation, Concordia University. Graduated with Honours
 
Fellowships and Honours:
2017: Nominated for a York University Dissertation Prize
2012: Awarded SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship 2012-14
2011: Awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2009: Jointly awarded a Canada Council Grant with AA Bronson for our Queer Spirits Project
 
Teaching and Research Areas:
            Environmental Studies               Visual and Culture Studies                      Animal Studies
            Science and Techno Studies        Studio Art Practices                   Queer and Gender Studies
 
Teaching Experience:
2018 – Currently: Instructor, OCADU, Toronto
          GART 1040: Drawing Across Disciplines/Writing Across Disciplines
          A drawing-concept development course; required for first-year students in the Faculty of Art
2019: O’Donnell Visiting Professor, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington
2019: Vermont College of Fine Art. Artist Mentor.
2017: Instructor, Brock University, St. Catharines
         Critical Practice in the Fine and Performing Arts: Art and Everyday Life.
2012-16: Instructor and TA at York University, Toronto
             Writing the Environment.
             Responsibilities included giving weekly lectures and organizing weekly tutorials, marking,                               grading and advising.
2010-2012: Instructor and TA York University, Toronto
            The Earth in Our Hands: Introduction to Environmental Studies
            Responsibilities included giving weekly lectures and organizing weekly tutorials, marking,                                grading, and advising.
2006: Instructor at Saint John Fisher College, Rochester.
          Suburban Nation: Land Use and Development in America 1945-2005
          American Studies course designed to explore the history of housing and land development in the                      United States following WWII.
2004-05: Instructor at the University of Rochester, Rochester
            SPORTS BODIES: Performing the Athlete. An introduction to Visual and Cultural Studies.
2003-04: Instructor at the University of Rochester, Rochester
               STAR BODIES: Fandom, Gender, and Popular Culture. An intro to Visual and Cultural Studies.
2000-01: Instructor at Concordia University, Montreal
              Extended Studio Practices (ARTX 270), Studio Arts Program, Department of Fine Art,
              In this studio course students are introduced to a range of contemporary art practices.
 
Publications:
2019: To the Post Office & Back: A Snapshot of Chemical Intimacy. Included in Rising Tides: Writing for Climate Changing Times. Edited by Catriona Sandilands. Vancouver: Caitlin Press.
2017: This is Not Therapy, This is Group Work. Edited by Andrew Zealley. Toronto: Disco Hospital Books and               Records.
2017: The Tale of the Sarnia Nose. Toronto: Art Gallery of York University.
2017: Excerpt from The Tale of the Sarnia Nose. Undercurrents, Issue 20.
         http://currents.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/currents/article/view/40317/36088
2017: Excerpt from The Tale of the Sarnia Nose. Centre for Imaginative Ethnography. 
         http://imaginativeethnography.org/imaginings/comics/the-tale-of-the-sarnia-nose/
2016: Canine Cartographies: On the Queer and Curious Pleasures of Being a Dog. Included in Animal Subjects           2.0, ed. Jodey Castricano and Lauren Corman. Wilfred Laurier UniversityPress. 
         https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/A/Animal-Subjects-2.0
2016: Epistemology of the Bunkhouse: Lusty Lumberjacks and the Sexual Pedagogy of the Woods. Included               in Queering the Countryside: New Directions in Rural Queer Studies, ed. Mary L. Gray, Colin R. Johnson,           and Brian Gilley. New York University Press. http://nyupress.org/books/9781479880584/
2015: Queer Ecologies Roundtable Discussion: Gordon Brett Brochu-Ingram, Peter Hobbs, and Cate                             Sandilands. Undercurrents, Issue 19.
2015: Querying Eco-Logics: A collective experiment in affective ecologies and the politics of form and                       function. Coauthored with Astrid Schrader, Roberta Buiani, Jessica Caporusso, Lisa Cockburn, Kelly                   Ladd, and Darren Patrick. https://technoscienceunit.org/2015/07/24/querying-eco-logics/
2013: Queen’s Park and Other Stories: Toronto’s Queer Ecologies. Coauthored with Cate Sandilands. Included             in Urban Explorations: Environmental Histories of the Toronto Region, ed. L. Anders Sandberg, Stephen             Bocking, Ken Cruikshank. L. R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History.
         http://environmental-history-      science.blogspot.ca/2013/03/environmental-history-of-toronto-see.html
2011: Queer Spirits. Coauthored with AA Bronson. Joint North American and European publication: Creative              Time, Plug In, JPR Publications.
2005: Co-editor of Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal of Visual Culture, Issue 8: Nature Loving                             http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/category/issues/archives/issue-9/
2004: The Image Before: The Lacanian Mirror Machine. Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal of Visual                      Culture, Issue 7: Casting Doubt: http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/the-image-before-me/
2001: Der Poncho und die nomadische Wunsch-Maschine / The Poncho and the Nomadic Desire Machine.                   Included in Szuper Gallery: Gallery Talks (bilingual catalogue). München, Germany: Galerie der Künstler.
2001: The Sewing Desire Machine. Included in Textile Transitions: Gender, Body, Identity, ed. Janis Jefferies.             London: Telos Press.
1999: Say Nothing, Be Silent: The Work of Jo-Anne Balcaen, Nathalie de Briey, Naomi Potter, & Ana                             Rewakowicz (exhibition catalogue). Glasgow: Book Lab.
1994: Arnaud Maggs at the Susan Hobbs Galley. (review) C Magazine. Fall 1994.
1994: Roland Brenner at the Olga Korper Gallery (review) Parachute. 74, 1994.
1994: Kim Adams (review) Parachute. 73, 1994.
1991: Brian Scott at the Toronto Sculpture Garden. (review) C Magazine. Fall 1991.
 
Conference Presentations and Guest Speaking:
2019: The Tale of the Sarnia Nose, Public Lecture, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington.
2018: To the Post Office and Back. A Story of Chemical Intimacy, SLSA Conference, Toronto
2018: Guest Lecture-Panelists, Waste Imaginaries. University of Toronto,
2017: Guest Lecture, Graduate Seminar, Culture and Environment. York University
2017: Writing Workshop: Writing Polluted Selves: Chemical Intimacies and Memoir. York University
2017: Guest Speaker at the Toronto Technoscience Salon. Ethnographies of Toxicity.
2016: Guest Lecturer: Environmental Disasters, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University.
         Lectured on local forms of environmental justice and community activism.
2016: Guest Lecturer: Qualitative Research Methods, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University.                     Introduced the class to my comic/montage methodology and how it can be used to trace the messy,                 contradictory politics of toxins.
2015: Guest Speaker at the Toronto Technoscience Salon. Intro to the Air Bucket Brigades in Chemical Valley             in southwestern Ontario and in Cancer Alley in Louisiana. 
2015: How Does Petrocapitalism Make You Feel? In Pursuit of a Regional Sensorium. Society for the Social                 Studies of Science, Denver.
2015: Chemical Intimacies and Toxic Publics. Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment,                 University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.
2014: Hazmat Suits and Lemonade: The Ambient Politics of Lead. Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA),                 York University.
2013: On the Political Sorcery of Lead, the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), University of               Notre Dame.
2013: Touring Toxicity: The Entangled Understories of Toronto’s Portlands. MATTERING: Feminism, Science &             Materialism, City University of New York.
2012: Canine Cartography: On the Biopolitics of Poodles, Society for the Social Studies of Science,                             Copenhagen, Denmark.
2012: On the Queer and Curious Pleasures of Being a Dog, SLAS Conference, Milwaukee.
2011: Crittercams and Animal Technologies of Infolding, Society for the Social Studies of Science, Cleveland.
2011: Tracking the Posthuman, SLAS Conference, Kitchener-Waterloo.
2010: Epistemology of the Bunkhouse, Queering the Countryside: New Directions in Rural Queer Studies,                   Indiana University.
 
Solo and Group Exhibitions:
2017: Visual Sociology, Ryerson University, Toronto.
2012: Young Curators: New Ideas, New York (video installation).
2009: Invocation of Queer Spirits: New York (A performance with AA Bronson, sponsored by Creative Time as             part of a public art installation show, This World and Nearer Ones                                                                       http://creativetime.org/projects/invocation-of-the-queer-spirits/
2008: Invocation of Queer Spirits: Winnipeg (A performance with AA Bronson, sponsored by Plug In).
2008: Invocation of Queer Spirits: New Orleans (A performance with AA Bronson, sponsored by Creative Time).
2005: Pleasures of Being a Dog, Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester (solo show: latest installation of my           imaginary queer circus).
2004: 39 Artists That I Love, Fads Art Space, Tokyo (group show organized by Yoshiaki Kaihatsu) – Video.
2003: Sexmutant, the Nunnery Gallery, London, England (group show organized by Lee Adams).
2002: Art-Throb: The Culture of Obsession, articule, Montréal (co-curated show with Jo-Anne Balcaen,                       featuring the work of Daniel Barrow, Cecilia Berkovic, Evergon, Shari Hatt, Keith Orkusz and Shelley                 Ouellet. 
2001: Circus of Tears, Latitude 53, Edmonton, Alberta – Video installation.
2001: Museopathy, Kingston, Ontario (group show organized by Jim Drobnick and Jennifer Fisher) –                           Performance.
 
Artist and Academic Residencies:
2017: PWA Toronto: The People with AIDS Foundation. Toronto, Canada.
2008: Making Artistic Inquiry Visible. Banff Centre of the Arts, Banff, Canada.
2003: School of Theory and Criticism. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
2000: Big City. Banff Centre of the Arts, Banff, Canada.

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