Author Biographies
Jenéa Tallentire, Chief Co-editor, /thirdspace/
Jenéa is co-founder and chief co-editor of /thirdspace/. She is currently an instructor in History at the University College of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Her PhD focused on defining marital status as a category of analysis for women's history, through the lens of single women in British Columbia from 1880-1930. She is also the web administrator for the Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality (http://www.cha-shc.ca/cchs/) and the founder of the Scholars of Single Women Network (www.medusanet.ca/singlewomen/). Her research interests include feminist theory, gender history, history of Whiteness and colonialism, and auto/biography.
Jessica Blaustein, Co-editor, /thirdspace/
I just completed my PhD in the Literature Program at Duke University, and I will be a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania for the next two years. My research focuses on nineteenth and twentieth century U.S. fiction, architecture, urban planning, and critical theories of gender and sexuality. I have also written and taught about past and contemporary girl cultures. In my dissertation, I develop a theory of "counterprivacy" in the face of privatizing models of American individualism, domesticity, and nationalism.
Sophie Mayer, Co-editor, /thirdspace/
I'm from London, England originally, but now I'm based at the University of Toronto, doing a Ph.D. in English and Women's Studies. My thesis focuses on experimental women's writing from modernism to the present day, considering theories of female and feminist languages and their relation to the body. I have also written and presented/published on various aspects of popular culture, examined through various feminist theories, for example, strategies of re-visioning individual and national identity in contemporary feminist folk music.
