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Academic Drag Story Time and Community Conversations with Dr. Tommy Mayberry
Academic Drag Story Time and Community Conversations with Dr. Tommy Mayberry
Date: Wednesday, June 25th 2025
Time: 3:00-4:00pm (AT) / 2:00-3:00pm (ET) / 11:00-12:00pm (PT)
Celebrate Pride Month with the Library!
The Library at Yorkville U + TFS is excited to announce Dr. Tommy Mayberry, the Director of the Centre of Teaching Excellence and Innovation (CTEI), is joining us for a free webinar about drag scholarship and research on June 25th, 2025.
As an academic drag queen, Dr. Tommy Mayberry (he/she/they) has published their work in numerous journals and edited volumes and has performed and presented their scholarship and research findings nationally as well as internationally. Tommy is co-editor (with Lindsay Bryde) of the award-winning book, RuPedagogies of Realness: Essays on Teaching and Learning with RuPaul’s Drag Race (McFarland 2022), which is available in both the TFS and YU libraries. There is currently an equity and justice focused follow-up “shequel” edition of RuPedagogies in the works, too! Tommy is also a recipient of the University of Waterloo’s Award for Exceptional Teaching (2015) as well as of the 2024 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship. They hold a PhD in English as well as an MA in English and Cultural Studies.
Are you curious about what it means to be a drag scholar? Join us for the opportunity to ask Dr. Tommy any and all of your questions.
Special Pride Event hosted by Library Services, Teaching and Learning
