Sarah Sharma (Remote Speaker)

Sarah Sharma is currently acting Vice Dean, Research and Program Innovation at the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto. She is Professor of Media Theory at the ICCIT/Faculty of Information and Director of the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching focuses on the relationship between technology, time and labour.

In 2024 she was awarded a Desmond Morton Research Excellence Award at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She is the author In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics (Duke UP, 2014) which was awarded a NCA Critical Cultural Book of the Year award in 2014. Her edited volume (with Rianka Singh) Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan (Duke UP 2022) highlights her time as director of the McLuhan Centre between 2017-2022. Sarah’s next book, Insufferable Tools: Feminism Against Big Tech will be published by Duke University Press in 2025.