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
Matthew Dunleavy (he/him) is an educational developer and scholarly teacher with over 9+ years’ experience. He immediately joins our CTEI from York University where he was an Educational Developer with the Teaching Commons; before entering that role, he served as the Program Director of the Online Learning and Technology Consultants (OLTC) Program at the Maple League of Universities (Acadia University; Bishop’s University; Mount Allison University; and St. Francis Xavier University). In 2022, he was awarded the D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) for this work.
