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EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. History of Consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1997
  • Graduate Studies in Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College, 1987-88
  • B.A. Philosophy, Mills College, Phi Beta Kappa, 1986

SELECTED ACADEMIC POSITIONS        

  • 2025-present Associate Chair, Department of Social Justice Education, OISE/University of Toronto
  • 2009-present Full Professor, OISE/University of Toronto, Department of Social  Justice Education
  • 2024 – present Director, Center for Media and Culture in Education, OISE/University of Toronto
  • 2018-19 Associate Chair, Department of Social Justice Education, OISE/UT
  • 2015 Jan-April Visiting Scholar, University of California Berkeley, CITRIS/DDI Institute
  • 2013 Invited Scholar, Monash University, School of Education
  • 2012-13 Associate Chair, Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education
  • 2007-2009 Associate Professor, Theory and Policy Studies, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto
  • 2007-2010 Associate Chair, Department of Theory and Policy Studies Program Coordinator, History and Philosophy of Education Group
    • 2011-present Affiliated Faculty, Cinema Studies
    • 2007-present Affiliated Faculty, Sexuality and Diversity Studies
    • 2007-present Affiliated Faculty, Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies
    • 2006-present Affiliated Faculty, Center for Study of United States, University of Toronto
    • 2006-2012 Affiliated Faculty, Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto
  • 2005 Invited Noted Scholar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  • 2005 Invited External Fellow, Dartmouth College Center for the Humanities, New Hampshire, Cyber-Disciplinarity Institute, (April-May)
  • 2000-2005 Associate Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA
  • 2002-2003 Interim Director, Women’s Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • 2000-2005 Affiliate Professor (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
    • Science and Technology Studies 
    • Women’s Studies
  • 2000 Visiting Scholar, Womens’ Leadership Institute (Spring 2000) Mills College, Oakland CA
  • 1997-2000 Assistant Professor, Cultural and Policy Studies in Education University of Auckland, New Zealand

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • M. Boler and E. Davis (Eds.)  Affective Politics of Digital Media: Propaganda By Other Means, London: Routledge Press (2021)
  • M. Ratto and M. Boler (Eds.) DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media, Cambridge, MIT Press (2014)
  • V. Bozalek, B. Leibowitz, R. Carollissen, and M. Boler (Eds.) Discerning Critical Hope in Education, London: Routledge (2013)
  • M. Boler (Ed.) Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times. Cambridge: MIT Press  (2008) 
  • Critics Choice Award, American Educational Studies Association 2010
  • Boler. M. (Ed.) (2004). Democratic Dialogue in Education: Troubling Speech, Disturbing Silence. New York: Peter Lang.
  • Boler, M. (1999). Feeling Power: Emotions and Education. (Routledge 1999). 
  • Critics Choice Award, American Educational Studies Association 2000

Special Journal Issues

  • E. Davis and M. Boler, Eds. (2021) “The Politics of Emotion Beyond the End of History,” Cultural Studies: Special Journal Issue. 
  • M. Boler and T. Gournelos, Eds. (2008) “Irony and Politics,” Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication ed. by v.18 no 2.

Selected Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Boler, M., Gharib, H., Kweon, Y., Trigiani, A.,  and Perry, B. “Promoting Disinformation Literacy Among Adults: A Scoping Review of Interventions and Recommendations,” Communication Research, Online First (February 26, 2025) https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502251318630

Boler, M., Kweon, Y.-J., & Threasaigh, M. N. (2024). Digital Affect Culture and the Logics of Melodrama: Online Polarization and the January 6 Capitol Riots through the Lens of Genre and Affective Discourse Analysis. Social Media + Society, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241228584

Azhar, A., & Boler, M. (2023). Cruel, Convenient, and Intimate Publics: Berlant’s Lessons for Loneliness and Digital Media Commons. Media Theory, 7(2), 353–372. https://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/573

Special Issue Section: Elizabeth Davis & Megan Boler, co-editors, “Affect, Protest, Pandemic: Conversations from the crises of 2020,” Cultural Studies*, 2022, 36:3, 355-359, DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2022.2040560

Berlant, L., Cvetkovich, A., Gould, D., Boler, M., & Davis, E. (2022). On taking the affective turn: interview with Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, and Deborah Gould. Cultural Studies, 36(3), 360-377.

Cohen, E., Boler, M., & Davis, E. (2022). The biopolitics of pandemics: interview with Ed Cohen. Cultural Studies, 36(3), 396-409.

Davis, A. Y., Gray, H., Johnson, G. T., Kelley, R. D., & Kun, J. (2022). The fire this time: a conversation with Angela Y. Davis, Herman Gray, Gaye Theresa Johnson, Robin DG Kelley, and Josh Kun. Cultural Studies, 36(3), 378-395.

Boler, M. & Davis, E. (2018). “The affective politics of the ‘post-truth’ era: Feeling rules and networked subjects.” Emotion, Space and Society, Volume 27, 75-85

Boler,  M. (2018). “Dilemmas of Conceptualizing Affect and Emotion: Towards a critical interdisciplinary methodology.” In K. Gallagher, Ed. The Methodological     Dilemma Revisited NY: Routledge.

Boler, M. (2015) “Feminist politics of emotions and critical digital pedagogies: A call to action.” PMLA Journal. 130.5: 1489-1496.

Boler, M. and J. Phillips. “Entanglements with Media and Technologies in the Occupy Movement.” The Fibreculture Journal Special Issue: Entanglements–Activism and Technology (2015).

Reilly, Ian and Megan Boler. “The Rally to Restore Sanity, prepoliticization, and the future of politics.” Communication, Culture & Critique 7.4 (2014): 435-452.

Boler, M., A. Macdonald, C. Nitsou, and A. Harris, “Connective labor and socialmedia: Women’s key roles in the ‘leaderless’ Occupy Movement,” Special Issue, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, forthcoming 2014.

Boler, M and S. Nemorin. “21st Century Propaganda: the Shifting Landscape of News,” in Oxford University Handbook of Propaganda, eds. R Castronovo and J Auerbach. (2013)

Selected Non-Refereed Journal Articles, Book Chapters, Media Publications

  • Boler, Megan, with Michalinos Zembylas. “Interview with Megan Boler: From ‘Feminist Politics of Emotions’ to the ‘Affective Turn’.” Methodological advances in research on emotion and education. Springer International Publishing, 2016. 17-30.
  • Boler, M. and C. Nitsou, “Women Activists within the Leaderless Occupy Wall Street: Consciousness-Raising and Connective Action in Hybrid Social Movements,” in McCaughey, M.(ed), Cyberactivism and the Participatory Web, NY: Routledge (2014).
  • Boler, M. “Truth and Sensemaking in Digital Dissent,” Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media, ed. Chris Atton (London: Routledge 2015).
  • Boler, M. “Digital Disinformation and the Targeting of Affect: New Frontiers for Critical Media Education.” Research in the Teaching of English 54.2 (2019): 187-191.
  • Zaliwska, Z. and M. Boler. (2018) “Troubling Hope: Performing Inventive Connections in Discomforting Times,” Studies in Philosophy and Education 38(4)
  • Boler, M. & Davis, E. (2018). “The affective politics of the ‘post-truth’ era: Feeling rules and networked subjects.” Emotion, Space and Society, Volume 27, 75-85
  • Boler,  M. (2018). “Dilemmas of Conceptualizing Affect and Emotion: Towards a critical interdisciplinary methodology.” In K. Gallagher, Ed. The Methodological     Dilemma Revisited NY: Routledge.
  • Boler, M. (2015) “Feminist politics of emotions and critical digital pedagogies: A call to action.” PMLA Journal. 130.5: 1489-1496.
  • Boler, M. and J. Phillips. “Entanglements with Media and Technologies in the Occupy Movement.” The Fibreculture Journal Special Issue: Entanglements–Activism and Technology (2015).
  • Reilly, Ian and Megan Boler. “The Rally to Restore Sanity, Prepoliticization, and the Future of Politics.” Communication, Culture & Critique 7.4 (2014): 435-452.
  • Boler, M., A. Macdonald, C. Nitsou, and A. Harris, “Connective labor and socialmedia: Women’s key roles in the ‘leaderless’ Occupy Movement,” Special Issue, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, forthcoming 2014.
  • Boler, M. and S. Nemorin. “21st Century Propaganda: the Shifting Landscape of News,” in
  • Oxford University Handbook of Propaganda, eds. R Castronovo and J Auerbach. (2013)
  • Burwell, C. and M. Boler, “Calling on the Colbert Nation: Fandom, Politics and Parody in an Age of Media Convergence,” Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication ed. by Megan Boler and Ted Gournelos. v.18 no 2, September 2008.
  • Boler, M. “Hypes, Hopes, and Actualities: Representations of Bodies and Difference in Text-Based Digital Communication,” New Media and Society (vol. 9, no .1, February 2007)
  • Zorn, D. and M. Boler. “Rethinking Emotions and Educational Leadership for Social Change,”International Leadership in Education, (vol. 10, issue 2, 2007)
  • Pinto, L., M. Boler, and T. Norris. “Conceptions of Literacy in High-Stakes Testing and its Press Coverage in Ontario,” Policy Futures in Education (vol. 5 no. 1, Jan. 2007).
  • Boler, M. “The Limits of Philosophy in an Epoch of Censure” Response to General Session, Philosophy of Education Society 2003, ed. Chris Higgins (Champaign, Il: Philosophy of Education Society)
  • Boler, M. “Masculinity on Trial: Using Popular Culture to Rethink Gender Roles.” Men and Masculinities.M. Kimmel, ed. SUNY (2004).
  • Boler, M. “The New Digital Cartesianism: Bodies and Spaces in Online Education,” Philosophy of Education Society 2002 ed. Scott Fletcher (Champaign, Il: Philosophy of Education Society) (2003)
  • Boler, M., L. T. Smith, G. Smith, M. Kempton, A. Ormond, H. Chueh and R. Waetford 
  • “‘Do you guys hate Aucklanders too?’ Youth: voicing difference from the rural  heartland,” Journal of Rural Studies, New Zealand  (2002).
  • Boler, M. “An Epoch of Difference: Hearing Voices in the Nineties,” (Decade Review 1990-99 for Special 50th Anniversary Issue), Educational Theory, Vol. 50, No.3 (2000) 357-381.
  • Boler, M. “All Speech is Not Free: Towards an Affirmative Action Pedagogy,” Philosophy of Education Society 2000, ed Lynda Stone (Champaign, Il: Philosophy of Education Society) 2001.
  • Boler, M. “Emotional Quotient: the Taming of the Alien.” Discourse: Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture.  Vol. 21, No. 2 (1999) 84-114.
  • Boler, M. “Towards a Politics of Emotion: Bridging the Chasm Between Theory and Practice,” American Philosophy Association Newsletter, Vol. 98, No. 1 (1998) 49-54.
  • Boler, M. “Taming the Labile Other,” Philosophy of Education Society 1997, ed. Susan Laird (Champaign, Il: Philosophy of Education Society) (1997) 258-270.
  • Boler, M. “Disciplined Emotions: Philosophies of Educated Feelings,” Educational Theory, Vol. 47, No. 3 (1997) 203-227.
  • Boler, M. “The Risks of Empathy: Interrogating Multiculturalism’s Gaze,” Cultural Studies, Vol. 11 No. 2 (1997) 253-273.
  • Boler, M. “License to Feel: Teaching in the Context of War,” Articulating the Global and Local, eds. Douglas Kellner and Ann Cvetkovich, Politics and Culture Series, Westview Press, 1996.
  • Boler, M. “Situated and Imagined Selves,” Review Essay of Bogdan’s Re-educating the Imagination and Benhabib’s Situating the Self,” Hypatia, Vol. 10, no. 4 (1995) 130-143.
  • Boler, M. “License to Feel: Teaching in the Context of War,” Philosophy of Education Society 1995. ed. Alvin Neiman (Champaign, Il: Philosophy of Education Society), 1995.
  • Boler, M. “Teaching for Diversity,” Concerns (Journal of the Women’s Caucus of the Modern Language Association), Vol. 34, No. 3 (1994) 27-32.
  • Boler, M. “The Risks of Empathy: Interrogating Multiculturalism’s Gaze,” Philosophy ofEducation Society 1994, ed. Michael Katz (Champaign, Il: Philosophy of Education Society) 1994.

SELECTED GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS         

  • PI, Digital Ecosystem Research Challenge, “Exploring Affect and Digital Media in the 2019 
  • Canadian Election,” University of Ottawa ($43,000) 2019-20
  • PI, SSHRC Insight Grant, “Affective Media, Social Movements, and Digital Dissent: Emotions and Democratic Participation in the ‘Post-Truth’ Era” (2019-2022); (submitted October 2017; again, October 2018; awarded March 2019) ($127,000)
  • PI, SSHRC Connections Grant, (2018-19)”Affect, Propaganda, and Political Imagination: New Directions of Interdisciplinary Research Symposium, to be held June 7-9, 2019. ($12500)
  • PI, Social Science and Humanities Research Council Grant, “Sociable Media in the Hands of Young Citizens: Evolving Forms of Participatory Democracy,” 2010-2013, $75,000.

Selected Invited Lectures/Presentations

  • October 2019 Panelist, Comparative Approached to Disinformation, Harvard University
  • October 2019 Invited Participant, High Level Symposium, European Union Media Commission, Rome, Italy
  • June 2019 Invited Panelist, “The social, cultural, and political underpinnings of the ‘post-truth’ world: Making Orwell fiction again,” Worldviews Media and Higher Education Conference, Toronto
  • April 2019 “Skeptical and Affective Literacies: Redefining Critical Media Pedagogies in a ‘Post-Truth’ Era,” Invited Presidential Speaker Session, American Educational Research Association, Toronto
  • January 2018 Invited Panelist, “The Limits of Empathy,” three-day panel series at Modern Language Association Convention, New York
  • February 2018 Invited Keynote, McLuhan Salon Keynote sponsored by the Canadian Embassy of Germany and transmediale, Berlin, Germany
  • February 2018 Invited Advisor, Canadian Federal Youth Secretariat, Ottawa
  • February 2018 Invited Panelist, Canadian Federal Government Communications Conference, “Fake News” (Ottawa)
  • April 9, 2018 Invited Keynote, UTSC Teaching Conference, “The Affective Politics of Teaching and Learning: From a Pedagogy of Discomfort to Critical Hope”
  • November 2018 Invited Panelist, “Interrogating The “Alt Right”, White Nationalism, and Trumpism,” CIARS Decolonizing Conference, OISE/UT
  • November 2018 Invited Panelist, Sexism and Violence in Cyberspace, (sponsored by the Writing & Rhetoric Program at Innis College and Journalists for Human Rights, U of T Chapter)
  • November 2018 Invited Panelist, ““An evening on a media theory for war,” McLuhan Center for Technology and Culture
  • September 2017 Invited Keynote, “Beyond Reason: Emotion and Affect in Post-Truth Information Warfare,” Media Meets Literacy Sarajevo, Evens Foundation, Bosnia
  • May 2017 Invited Keynote, “(Dis)Comfort Zones: Negotiating Tensions and Cultivating Belonging in Diverse College Classrooms in Quebec,” Conference Organized by Department of English, Vanier College, Montreal, QC

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