Morgan Holmes

Suddenly I find that I'm officially a 'mid-career' academic. My most recent book project, an international collection of critical essays addressing thinking about and experiences of intersexuality was published in the fall of 2009 from Ashgate Press (Aldershot, UK). I am privileged to have worked on the project with promising, young scholars , and with more established ones as well.

Right now I'm interested in the adoption of new language (Disorders of Sexual Differentiation) to signal the presence of intersex, and the limits of a disease-model in securing rights recognitions, as well the more general recognition of 'personhood'.

In the spring of 2010, I will be delivering a plenary address and workshop at the Rainbow Health conference in Toronto.

In my day-to-day life I'm thrilled to be working with an interesting and lively group of graduate students whose interdisciplinary perspectives help to access complex questions related to embodiment and to the qualities of human life. I also enjoy doing the work of advising our undergraduates on academic matters, as I find it to be a very satisfying pedagogical exercise that allows for some significant interaction that isn't always possible in my larger classroom environments. Helping people to find their research passions, or even just to find a more meaningful engagement with their studies is really rewarding.

I am also keeping a blog about my new found passion for commuting to work by bicycle. When I have the site up and running, I'll post a link here; it's all part of my commitment to finding ways of making social change that is accessible on a local scale. ... and to my concomitant aversion to spandex. I've also just volunteered to wewar a GPS device for two weeks during my winter riding to help local city planners figure out how to maintain and develop bike routes for the winter.

The bicycle blog is: stylocycle.wordpress.com

The writing I do there meanders as much as I do on my bike.

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