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As a lecturer, I have taught undergraduate, master's and doctoral level courses at four Canadian universities, in French and English, to groups of approximately 15 to 120 students in the following disciplines: social work, feminist studies, black studies, victimology/criminology. Excerpts from the course outlines are provided here.

Travail social, sexe et genre, Summer 2021
 

School of Social Work, University of Montreal
Bachelor's level, approx. 90 students [virtual mode]

The course is a process of critical reflection on the different gender and sex relationships, issues and struggles associated with them in Quebec and around the world. We will explore the main theories and interventions on gender. The goal of the course is to raise students' awareness of the various aspects related to gender and sexuality and to enable them to use the knowledge acquired in this course for the practice of social work. In this course, students will, through different learning experiences, deepen their knowledge and will be able to take a step back from their own experiences as workers.

Women and Gendered Violence, Fall 2022

Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa
Bachelor's level, approx. 120 students [in person]

"The goal of the course is to expand our understanding beyond interpersonal violence and also to understand women's victimization by the state –corporate abuse/exploitation, societal indifference and institutional acts of neglect and/or aggression. To that end, we will consider (mutually constitutive) structural, symbolic, slow, state, interpersonal, and workplace violence. Implicit in this is the need to appreciate how social stratifications (including gender, racialization, and class) condition women's experience.

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The course is divided into four sections. First, violence against women will be contextualized, and an analytic framework will be developed that acknowledges the social and personal implications of violence at the same time as it attends to intersectionality and leaves room for individual/collective resistance. In the second part, interpersonal victimization (everyday intrusions, sexual assault, intimate partner violence) will be explored. Third, we look at workplace violence, considering the significance of class and racialization. Finally, we further broaden the scope to consider institutional and structural gendered violence."

Interventions féministes, Winter 2023

School of Social Work, University of Montreal
Masters level, approx. 15 students [in person]

This course aims to foster reflection on the theoretical and methodological issues raised by emerging feminist interventions and discourses in social work. It also allows for an in-depth exploration of ways in which feminist discourses and interventions could contribute to a social work practice that combats social inequalities based on gender as well as class, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, sexuality, age, ability, citizenship, etc.

The first part of the course will present the different feminist perspectives, which are often described in terms of three major waves of feminism. The second part will look at the influences and implications of feminist thinking in the context of social work. The third part of the course will address a number of realities that affect people of all genders, but especially women, as well as different intervention environments in which feminist interventions are practiced.

#MeToo Across the Globe - A Transnational Movement to End Sexual Violence***, winter 2024

Department of Gender Studies, Queen's University
Bachelor's level, approx. 15 students, [in person]

This special topics course explores the transnational #MeToo movement and the issue of sexual violence against Black women, racialized women, and gender-diverse people. It traces the movement's origins before #MeToo went viral in October 2017. It follows a chain of key pioneers and silence breakers throughout recent history. Students will learn how the #MeToo movement took shape in different geographical locations worldwide, focusing on North America (Canada, Quebec, and the United States) and Europe (France). In addition, students will better understand the unique implications, dilemmas, and realities of sexual violence and breaking the silence for Black, racialized, women, and gender-diverse people in these geographical contexts. In addition, classes and readings will focus on case studies of specific activists and the history of social movements and resistance to rape culture through a feminist, anti-racist, and intersectional lens. Films, video clips, and in-class discussions will be used to support the students' learning.

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By the end of the course, students should be able to:

• Understand the key specificities of sexual violence for Black, racialized women, girls, and gender-diverse people through an intersectional framework;

• Explain how the #MeToo movement emerged in North America and Europe;

• Analyze the #MeToo movement through a feminist, anti-racist, and intersectional lens;

• Know the names and histories of several trailblazers who contributed to #MeToo

• Have a critical and complex analysis of the quest for justice when experiencing sexual violence;

• Understand the impact and consequences of the #MeToo movement on society, politics, media, law, and institutions.

***course I designed as part of the Black Studies Fellowship

Théories féministes, des genres et des sexualités, Fall 2024

DESS in feminist, gender and sexuality studies,
University of Montreal
Masters and PhD level, approx. 20 students [in person]

Study of contemporary feminist theories dealing with gender and sexuality since the "second wave" of the 1970s. A multidisciplinary perspective is anchored in yesterday's and today's struggles and social practices.

 

This course seeks to highlight the genealogy of historical, economic, social, philosophical and political constructions of assignments of certain tasks and/or identities to categories of people to identify the effects of these assignments on subjectivities. The assignment question will also be raised by analyzing different forms of violence associated with it. The study of various theories will allow the student, on the one hand, to critically approach different social realities affecting the question of women and, on the other hand, to articulate the links between knowledge, power, oppression, identity assignment and social norms."

Victimologie, Fall 2024

Certificate in Victimology, University of Montreal
Bachelor's level, approx. 30 students [in person]

The role of victims in the dynamics of crime and in the administration of justice. The consequences of victimization. Reparation of harm. Psychosocial intervention with victims. In general, the course aims to understand what victimology is, its main concepts and theories, its history, its development and its issues. At the end of the course, students will be able to:

  • Interpret the main results of surveys and research in victimology.

  • Describe the direct and indirect consequences of a criminal act.

  • Identify the needs of victims, services adapted to their needs and interventions with victims.

  • Understanding the role of victims in the criminal justice system and the use of restorative justice.

  • Exercise a critical reading of legislation concerning victims of criminal acts.

Justice and the Self, Winter 2025

Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Carleton University
Bachelor's level, approx. 60 students [in person]

What is the relationship between the individual and justice? This course explores historical, psychological, and sociological perspectives on the meaning of justice and the individual’s relationship to it, particularly as related to the criminal justice system. The course explores questions of personal agency, victimhood and responsibility as relates to rule breaking and punishment. The course encourages students to think critically about the connections between justice and the self and will include various themes such as: (non)-criminal responsibility, theories of justice, the meaning of justice for victims/survivors of crimes; a brief overview of the history of the Canadian criminal justice system, historic and contemporary feminist mobilizations against gender-based violence, criminalizing and penalizing practices within/outside of movements for social justice and in society at large, alternative forms of justice such as restorative justice and transformative justice, neurodivergence and Mad Studies, the role of emotions, social and traditional media in conceptions of justice.

 

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

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  • Critically explore questions of justice from individually centered approaches and examine the impact of various theories, perspectives and practices on individuals and society.

  • Understand historical and contemporary conceptualizations of individual pathology, agency, and responsibility, recognizing these concepts as foundational elements shaping the dispensation of criminal justice.

  • Develop the ability to engage in critical analysis concerning the role of psychological, emotional, and affective dimensions of the individual, the individuals’ relationship to the social, and the function of these dynamics on justice related policies, practices and ethical considerations.

  • Critically engage with questions of normality and abnormality, and their role in designating control functions.

Mental Health and Criminalization, Hiver 2025

Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Carleton University
Bachelor's level, approx. 60 students [in person]

This course will explore some of the reasons why people with mental illness are over -represented in the criminal justice systems in Canada and in the United States, within the framework of critical disability studies and critical prison studies. Topics such as stereotypes, stigma, neoliberalism and mental health, mentally ill persons’ contact with the criminal justice system, and the effects of incarceration on mentally ill prisoners will be discussed, in addition to the societal reactions to this criminalization. We will also explore anti-carceral responses to these issues.

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By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Critically evaluate the societal and systemic structures which lead to the criminalization of people living with mental illness;

• Understand the consequences of the criminalization and medicalization of people living with mental illness;

• Think critically about mental illness/madness and incarceration; examine intersectional and anti-carceral approaches to mental health.

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