CV
CURRICULUM VITAE | JULY 2023
Michelle Charette
Department of Science and Technology Studies
York University michgc@yorku.ca
Toronto, Ontario
Areas of Specialization:
STS, phenomenology, medical humanities, ethnography
Education
2019-2024 (expected) PhD in Science and Technology Studies, York University
2018 MA in Philosophy, Toronto Metropolitan University
2016 BA in Arts and Contemporary Studies, with Specialization in Philosophy, Toronto Metropolitan University
Additional Training
2018 Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind
The Centre for Subjectivity Research & University of Copenhagen
Research Experience
2022 – Present Senior Research Assistant
A Situated Neurology: A sensory ethnography of brain trauma with patients, clinicians, scientists, and neuro-tech innovation
PIs: Dr. Denielle Elliott, Dr. Susan Berkhout
2021-2022 Research Assistant
Placebo Talks Back
PIs: Dr. Ada Jaarsma, Dr. Susan Berkhout
2020-2022 Research Assistant
Neurological Imaginaries
PI: Dr. Denielle Elliott
Awards & Fellowships
2022 Academic Excellence Fund
Faculty of Graduate Studies
York University
2022 – 2024 Doctoral Fellowship
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2021 Global & Community Engagement Collaborative
Project Fund, LA&PS, York University
2021 LA&PS Seed Grant for Collaborative Research Initiatives
York University
2020 Mitacs Research and Training Award
2019 – 2024 Doctoral Fellowship
York University
2017 Graduate Development Award
Toronto Metropolitan University
2016 Graduate Fellowship
Toronto Metropolitan University
Book Chapters
Forthcoming 2024. Charette, Michelle. “Curator’s Note”. In Denielle Elliott and Matthew Wolf-Meyer, eds. Fieldnotes, Raw and Unedited. University of Minnesota Press.
Forthcoming 2023. Charette, Michelle and Denielle Elliott. “Sensing the Afterlife: Multisensorial ethnography and injured minds”. In The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography, Edited by Phillip Vannini.
Peer Reviewed Publications
Forthcoming 2023. Charette, Michelle. “Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructure in India" – Michelle Friedner. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. 2022). IEEE Technology and Society Magazine.
Charette, Michelle, Elizabeth Lima, and Denielle Elliott. 2022. “Sonic Stories, Sensory Ethnography, and Listening with an Injured Mind.” Multimodality & Society 2 (2): 165–73. https://doi.org/10.1177/26349795221084144.
Charette, Michelle. 2021. “Aging in a Technoscientific World: Postphenomenology versus Critical Phenomenology Medical Technics: By Don Ihde, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019, 94 Pp., $10.00 (Paperback), ISBN 978-1-5179-0830-0.” Science as Culture 30 (4): 586–90. https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2021.1956889.
Charette, Michelle. 2020. “Review of Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves, by George Estreich (MIT Press, 2019).” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 6 (2). https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v6i2.33862.
Charette, Michelle and Dayna Jeffrey. 2020. “STS Futures Symposium Report.” Society for Social Studies of Science. Backchannels. April 14.
Charette, Michelle. 2018. “Emotional Contagion: Rethinking Empirical Expression.” Filosofisk Supplement. University of Oslo Student Journal of Philosophy and History of Ideas.
Digital Publications
Charette, Michelle and Robert Desjarlais. 2021. Writing Life No. 5: An interview with Robert Desjarlais. Somatosphere, January 22. http://somatosphere.net/author/robertdesjarlais/
Multimodal Publications
Charette, Michelle, Helene Charette, and Denielle Elliott. 2022. “Neurological Imaginaries”. In Connections: Bringing Neuroscience and Art Together. Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute.
Conference Talks
07/2023 From Infliction to Prediction: The politics of temporality in analgesic artifacts
University of Toronto and Western University, International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology
03/2023 “There is Nothing Fun About Pain”: Medical adherence and the game market
York University, Science and Technology Studies Seminar Series
02/2023 Visual Culture and Brain Injury: An analysis of neuro-artefacts (peer-reviewed poster)
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute’s 15th Annual Brain Injury Conference
*co-presenter with Em Panetta
12/2022 Public Hope in Virtual Healthcare: Pain, Friction, and Pathway Convergence
4S Annual Conference
07/2022 Getting a Grip: m-Health Technologies and Tactile Resistance
European Association for the Study of Science and Technology
05/2022 Adopting arts-based methods to explore sensory disturbances among patients with acquired brain injuries (peer- reviewed poster)
Canadian Association for Neuroscience
04/2022 Situated Neurology: An ethnographic study of neurology in Kenya
York University, Institute for Global Health Research
*co-presenter with Denielle Elliott
05/2021 A Magic Encyclopedia: Time, Memory, and Trauma
Concordia University Center for Sensory Studies, Uncommon Senses III
*co-presenter with Denielle Elliott
03/2021 Working with Glass: A Visual Ethnography of Pain and Adaptation
Imagining Differently: Research-Creation Practices in Urgent Times
York University
03/2021 Adversity-Borne Hope: Randomized Controlled Trials and Epistemic Vigilance
Phenomenology and its Worlds
Villanova University
Workshops
10/2019 Health Care and Phenomenology Workshop
St. Hilda’s College, Oxford University
2017 Phenomenology of Chronic Illness and Chronic Pain Workshop
Toronto Metropolitan University Philosophy Department
Editorial Work
2021-2022 Editorial Assistant
Forthcoming, 2024. D. Elliott and Matthew Wolf-Meyer, eds. Fieldnotes, Raw and Unedited. University of
Minnesota Press.
University Service
2022-2023 PhD Representative, Graduate Conference Vetting Committee Member
York University Science and Technology Studies Department
2021-2022 Social Events Coordinator, Treasurer, Co-Conference Coordinator, Conference Vetting Committee
York University Science and Technology Studies Department
2020 Committee Member
STS Symposium
York University, Science and Technology Studies Department
2018 Graduate Conference Chair
Selfhood: A Dialogue Between Phenomenology and Neurocentrism
Toronto Metropolitan University
Course Director
2023/2024 SOSC3116 The Patient
York University
Guest Lectures
01/2023 Digital Therapeutics in Canada
STS6001 STS Graduate Colloquium
York University
01/2023 Contested Illness
SOSC2110 A Critical Study of Health and Society
York University
02/2023 Virtual Ethnography
RTA 934 Virtual Identities & Communities
Toronto Metropolitan University
10/2021 Ethnographic Methods
RTA 934 Virtual Identities & Communities
Toronto Metropolitan University
Teaching Assistant
2019 –2023 SOSC2110 A Critical Study of Health and Society
York University
2016 – 2018 SSH105 Critical Thinking
Toronto Metropolitan University
Grading Assistant
2023 NATS1510 History of the Environment
York University
2021, 2022 NATS 1870 Understanding Colour
York University
2021 SOSC3103 Health and Development in the Global South
York University
2020 NATS 1560 Understanding Food
York University
2020 NATS 1670 Concepts in Human Health and Disease
York University