Maria-Belén Ordóñez

Dr. Maria Belén Ordóñez is Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) of Social Sciences/Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Her past ethnographic research in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver explored unofficial channels of public pleasure, desire, affect, and Canadian media headlines dealing with sexuality, and queer/feminist oppositions to Canadian obscenity and censorship laws (1999-2009). Her research has included tracking affect in Canadian legislative challenges dealing with sexuality, censorship, and morality. Ordóñez uses feminist/queer and multi-sited approaches to write about the emergence and undoing of public events related to sexuality and intimacy. M. Belén Ordóñez’ recent research explores anti-oedipal readings of parent-child relationships in legal, cultural, and cinematic forms.

She was a collaborator in developing and teaching curriculum for Feminist Technology Networks (femtechnet.org), a distributed network of feminist artists, scholars, and activists teaching and doing research in feminist science, media, art, and technology between 2012-2019.

Recent publications include, Doing/Writing Queer Research at the Margins. In eds. Richard J. Gilmour and Robin Ganev. Queers Were Here: Heroes and Icons of Queer Canada. Biblioasis 2016 and Circuits of Power, Labour and Desire: The Case of Dominique Strauss-Khan eds. Pavan Kuman Malreddy and Birte Heidemann In Reworking Post Colonialism: Globalization, Labour and Rights. Palgrave, 2015.

M. Belén Ordóñez teaches courses in feminist theories, multi-sited and experimental ethnography, critical theory, and body politics.