Scholarly Interests:
Lee Easton joined Mount Royal in 1996 teaching courses in communication and cultural theories and multimedia. A long time teacher of comics and graphic novels, Easton has co-authored with Richard Harrison, The Secret Identity Reader: Essays on Sex, Death and the Superhero. He is active researcher in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) focused on teaching film studies and developing approaches to curriculum development from a decolonizing perspective. As a queer scholar, he teaches courses on representations of gender and sexuality in popular media, publishing articles in peer reviewed journals Sexualities and Porn Studies. Lee holds a cross appointment in the Department of General Education where he teaches foundational writing courses including GNED 1404-Writing about Images.

Selected Publications:
Bury, R., & Easton, L. (2024). ‘Who can handle a true BBC?’: masculinities, race and dick pic sharing on Reddit. Porn Studies, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2023.2287459

Bury, R., & Easton, L. (2022). Fun with Dick and Dick: Homosociality on r/MassiveCock. Sexualities, 25(4), 326-346. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460720961300

Easton, L., Lexier, R., Lindstrom, G., & Yeo, M. (2019). Uncovering the complicit. Re-imagining Curriculum: Spaces for disruption, 149.

Easton, L. and K. Hewson. (2018). From Border Pedagogy to Treaty Pedagogy: Canadian Exceptionalism in a Canadian Film Studies Classroom.Canadian Review of American Studies 48 S1(January), 63-83.

Easton, L. and R. Harrison. (2010) The Secret Identity Reader: Essays on Sex, Death, and the Superhero.

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