About

Theresa N. Kenney (she/her/siya) is Pilipinx of mixed Kapampangan and white European descent. She is a settler from Mohkinstsis (Calgary, Alberta) in Treaty 7 Territory.

She holds a PhD in English from McMaster University. Her research specializes in asexual, aromantic, and platonic intimacies within queer Asian North American cultural production. Across her projects, she explore how queer diasporic relationalities open up possibilities for living otherwise.

Her scholarship has been published in journals and collections such as Feminist Formations, IDEAH: Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in the Arts and Humanities, decomp journal, and the latest edition of Asexualities from Routledge. Theresa is also featured in the CBC Gem documentary series The Big Sex Talk, where she spoke on asexuality and the nuances of desire, intimacy, and representation.

Throughout my academic and activist work, Theresa is committed to building more accessible, relational, and anti-colonial futures. Her mentorship and teaching practices are grounded in feminist, queer, and anti-racist pedagogies, with a deep emphasis on collective knowledge-making, access, and care. Theresa has developed and taught courses on Asian American literature, feminist and queer theory, digital cultures, and critical race studies.

Her academic journey has been supported by several awards, including the SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, the Ontario Graduate Fellowship, the Lyons Humanities OGS in New Media and Communication, and the Don Goellnicht PhD Memorial Award. Theresa has also served as an Educational Development Fellow, a Graduate Resident in Digital Scholarship, and an organizer of student-led anti-racism coalitions.

When she is not writing or teaching, you can often find Theresa reading, making zines, doomscrolling on TikTok or thinking about the politics of food, diasporic memory, and tenderness as resistance.