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Meg D. Lonergan is a doctoral candidate in Legal Studies with a collaborative specialization in Political Economy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Lonergan completed her M.A. in Gender Studies at Queen's University, and Honours Bachelor of Social Science in Criminology and Women's Studies at the University of Ottawa.

Lonergan's dissertation research is a hauntological analysis of Canadian obscenity law.

She is currently senior research assistant to Dr. Steven Kohm at the University of Winnipeg, working on a range of projects related to Canadian horror and haunting.

Meg has taught a variety of upper-year undergraduate courses in Criminology, Legal Studies, Sociology, and Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton University, the University of Alberta, and Concordia. She has developed a number of courses, including two popular fourth-year seminars Cultural Criminology and True Crime Media.

Lonergan's research interests include: cultural and critical criminology; ghost criminology; hauntology; horror and Gothic studies; feminist controversies; law, culture, and the humanities; moral regulation; obscenity and porn studies; popular culture and myth; poststructuralism; qualitative methods; research ethics; sex and technology; true crime; violence; porn studies; and true crime.

Experience

• –present Doctoral Candidate and Contract Instructor, Carleton University
• 2021–2021 Contract Instructor, Concordia University

Education

• 2016 Queen's University, M.A. Gender Studies
• 2014 University of Ottawa, HonBSoc. Criminology and Women's Studies

Publications

• 2023 Consuming Ghost Stories: The Spectre of Snuff Films is Haunting Canadian Obscenity, Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research
• 2022 “Real Scary/Scary Real”: Consuming Simulated and Authentic Horrors in the Digital Era, Horror Studies
• 2020 Hard-on of darkness: Gore and shock websites as the dark tourism of digital space, Porn Studies
• 2019 It's a bird! It's a plane! It's security as pacification! Security as Pacification in Superman Red Son, Panic at the Discourse
• 2018 The surrealism of men's rights discourses on sexual assault allegations: A feminist reading of Kafka's The Trial, Atlantis: Journal of Women's Studies & Culture
• 2017 Witches, bitches, and white feminism: A critical analysis of American Horror Story: Coven, Render: The Carleton Graduate Journal of Art and Culture

Professional Memberships

• Canadian Law and Society
• Law, Culture and the Humanities
• Women's and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes

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