Carolyn Guertin (writer)
Carolyn Guertin is a Canadian artist, scholar, and writer who explores how technology shapes gender and culture. Her work covers cyberfeminism, born-digital art, participatory culture, global digital culture, information aesthetics, hacktivism, and tactical media.
She teaches Information and Media Studies at Western University in London, Ontario, and serves on the graduate faculty at Transart Institute in Berlin. From 2004 to 2006, she was the Senior McLuhan Fellow and SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto. She earned a PhD from the University of Alberta in English and Film Studies, focusing on women’s writing, born-digital narratives, and the technologies of memory.
Guertin’s work has been influential in discussions of networked feminism and the place of technology in social life. She wrote From Cyborgs to Hacktivists: Postfeminist Disobedience and Virtual Communities (2005). In Unraveling the Tapestry of Califia, she analyzes Califia’s layered narrative as an engine of forgetfulness that invites readers to return to the text, with meaning emerging through repeated reading. Her ideas are cited by scholars such as Jessica Laccetti, Lisa Joyce, and Katherine Hayles in studies of female subjectivity and cyber literature.
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