Jessica Fontaine

Title: Instructor
Email: jes.fontaine@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:
Jessica Fontaine holds a PhD in Communication Studies, Graduate Option in Gender and Women’s Studies from McGill University. Her dissertation argues that American and Canadian professional wrestling operates as an affective economy that is formed and fueled by the contingencies between affect, work, and “kayfabe” (feelings of realness). She takes an intersectional feminist approach to investigate how participants engage these contingencies to shape pro wrestling’s uneven material and social conditions. She also completed a MA in Cultural Studies: Texts and Culture at the University of Winnipeg (2016), where her research focused on anti-colonial and Indigenous resistance in Indigenous literature and media. Jessica has taught courses on academic writing, contemporary comics and race, cultural studies, and the history of communication. Her research interests also include fat studies, spectacular bodies, running culture, social media and technology, and comics. Her work appears in Space and Culture, Popular Communication, and The Comics Grid.

Courses:

Fall 2023

RHET-1105: Academic Writing: Multidisciplinary

Winter 2024

RHET-1105: Academic Writing: Multidisciplinary