MA, PhD Candidate
Instructor, Women's & Gender Studies
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
School of Social Sciences
Women's & Gender Studies
604.986.1911 ext. 2148
Fir Building, room FR407
mathewarthur@capilanou.ca
Education
PhD Candidate, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University, 2025.
MA, Indigenous and Inter-Religious Studies, Vancouver School of Theology, 2018.
Bio
Mathew Arthur (MA, Vancouver School of Theology, 2018) is an instructor in Women's and Gender Studies.
His research and teaching are interdisciplinary, weaving together feminist science and technology studies (STS), critical Indigenous studies, environmental humanities and cultural studies and philosophies of feeling.
Arthur has taught for over a decade both in and outside the university and runs Doing STS, a local educational nonprofit that holds public talks and community workshops on feminist science studies.
For almost a decade, he was a volunteer teacher in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and ran a free weekly feminist technoscience seminar at Vancouver Public Library.
From 2023 to 2024, Arthur taught as a sessional instructor in Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University.
He is a founding director of the Society for the Study of Affect (SSA), editor-in-chief of Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry and Imbricate Press, and chair of the Westar Institute's Seminar on the Human Future. Arthur's recent book project, Everything is a Lab: Doing Ordinary Science (Imbricate, 2024), explores zinemaking, collage, foraging, fermenting and amateur perfumery as methods for making a more liveable world.
My courses always include a wide range of creative and critical readings: from academic books and articles, blog posts, and news media to films, podcasts, manifestos, comics and visual art.
Alongside in-class writing exercises, I ask students to practice reading theory aloud together as a way to make reading and writing social (rather than individual) practices.
As a neurodiverse academic, I value many teaching and learning styles and welcome creative and experimental assignments that include video, podcasts, performance and other making and doing practices.
My research focuses on ordinary practices like walking, composting, fermentation and crafting as methods for learning feminist theory, growing science and tech literacies and rehearsing imperfect but more caring relationships with our multispecies relatives.
I research, write and lecture on the ordinary social worlds, feelings and infrastructures that shape our relationships with local ecologies and on feminist worldbuilding in science fiction and Indigenous futurisms.
Arthur, Mathew. Making Stories for a Broken World. Goleta: Punctum, 2025
Arthur, Mathew, ed. Everything is a Lab: Doing Ordinary Science. Vancouver & Lancaster: Imbricate Press, 2024
Arthur, Mathew. “STS and Affect in the Wild.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 60, no. 30 (2024)
Arthur, Mathew. “Writing Pandemic Feels.” Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry 2, nos. 1–2 (2020)
Arthur, Mathew. “Four Alleys.” Fieldsights, 2020
Arthur, Mathew and Reuben Jentink. “Composting Settler Nationalisms.” Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry 1, no. 3 (2018)
Arthur, Mathew. “Affect Studies.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory, edited by Eugene O’Brian. London: Oxford University Press, 2021
Arthur, Mathew. “Foreword: Working the Social, Otherwise.” In Post-Anthropocentric Social Work: Critical Posthuman and New Materialist Perspectives, edited by Vivienne Bozalek and Bob Pease. London: Routledge, 2021
Arthur, Mathew. “Writing Affect and Theology in Indigenous Futures.” In Religion, Emotion, Sensation: Affect Theories and Theologies, edited by Karen Bray and Stephen Moore. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019
Arthur, Mathew. “Bodying Difference Differently: Immersions in Cultural Difference by Natalie Alvarez.” Canadian Theatre Review 176 (2018)
SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship—Doctoral (CGS D), Simon Fraser University
British Columbia Graduate Scholarship, Simon Fraser University
Travel and Research Award, Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University Thesis Completion Fellowship, Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University Graduate Fellowships, Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University Dean’s Graduate Fellowship, Simon Fraser University
Graduate Student Society Award, Simon Fraser University
National Council of Jewish Women Scholarship, Simon Fraser University
Margaret and Claude Mitchell Graduate Award, Simon Fraser University
Ezra Allen Osterhout Prize in Ethics, Vancouver School of Theology