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Courses Regularly Taught:
WMST 320 - Gendered Techno-culture
WMST 420 - Queer Theory
WMST 250 - Gender and Globalization
WMST 480 - Feminist Theories
WMST 100 - Intro to Gender Studies Through the Humanities

Research Interests:
technology and new media forms; visual culture and theories of representation; Cultural Studies; Queer Theory; theories and meanings of the body; Education and LGBTQ students


Biography:
Dr. Ketchum received her M.A. (with Distinction) and her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from the University of California, Davis in 2005. Her courses and research explore the poetics and politics of technologies ranging from Twitter and Facebook to experimental video, Photoshop, web design, and online virtual worlds. Dr. Ketchum's course, Gendered Technoculture. challenges students to strategically intervene in the workings of technology and the Internet: taking issue with censorship; contesting the "digital divide;" critiquing new media’s visual language; and affirming the Net as a democratic space of intellectual and creative freedom.

Dr. Ketchum serves on the Orange County Equality Coalition’s (OCEC) Board of Directors, the Chapman International Center for Feminist and LGBTQ Studies and, on the Board of Directors for the Orange County chapter of the National Organization for Women (OC NOW).

Selected Publications:
Ketchum, Karyl E. "Gendered Uprisings: Desire and Revolution Online." Transformations Journal of Media & Culture 23, no. The Internet as Politicising Instrument, July 2013.

Ketchum, Karyl E. "’We’ve Got Big News’: Creating Media to Empower Queer Youth." LGBT Youth and Media Cultures, Ed. Chris Pullen. London: Bournemouth University Press. Forthcoming.

Ketchum, Karyl E. "Magic, Dangerous, Deadly: The Uncanny Powers of My Uterus." [Multi Media]. In Media Res, Special Issue: "Women's Health as Humor," NYU Media Commons, November 2012.


Ketchum, Karyl E. "LGBTQ History, Politics and Culture: Michigan." Proud Heritage. Ed. Chuck Stewart. Santa Barbara CA: ABC-CLIO, January 2014.


Ketchum, Karyl E. "Facegen And the Technovisual Politics of Embodied Surfaces." Women's Studies Quarterly 37. Special Issue: "Technologies," June 2009.

Ketchum, Karyl E. “Techno-visual Identities: The Body Between Artistic Creativity and Technology," Biblioteca della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Press, Trento, Italy. Ed. Antonella Montedoro. April 2007.

Ketchum, Karyl E. “Mode: Poetische Dialektik” (“Poetic Dialectics: Revisiting Walter Benjamin’s Arcades”), Fashchaft Textil (with Susan B. Kaiser and Anna K. Kuhn), Gabriele Mentges Ed., Ebersbach Press, Dortmund University, Germany, January 2006.

In the classroom, Dr. Ketchum and her students explore the poetics and politics of technologies ranging from Twitter and Facebook to experimental video, Photoshop, web design, and online virtual worlds. Her computer lab courses challenge students to strategically intervene in the workings of technology and the Internet: taking issue with censorship; contesting the "digital divide;" critiquing new media’s visual language; and affirming the Net as a democratic space of intellectual and creative freedom.

In addition to her research and teaching, Dr. Ketchum serves on the Orange County Equality Coalition’s (OCEC) Board of Directors, the Orange County National Organization for Women's Board of Directors and, the Advisory Board for the Chapman International Center for Feminist and LGBTQ Studies.

 

Links:
The "I Know School Laws" PSA featuring Betty DeGeneres. As the centerpiece of a statewide collaborative effort between the Southern California ACLU and the Orange County Equality Coalition, this PSA and associated campaign is educating school administrators, students and their families on the new California safe schools laws that went into effect July 1, 2012: AB 9 and AB 1156.

“Understanding & Addressing Bullying,” a first-of-its-kind professional development course for K-12 educators. Offered on an on-going basis through CSU Fullerton’s College of Extended Ed., the course provides information about ways to assess school climate; the unique circumstances of LGBTQ students; the relationship between homophobia and misogyny; and the importance of understanding schools as social systems. It also offers information on state and federal anti-bullying laws along with precedent-setting legal decisions and, success stories of schools that have re-set their campus cultures by addressing the underlying dynamics of school bullying.