Doctoral Candidate and Contract Instructor, Legal Studies, Carleton University
Meg D. Lonergan is a doctoral candidate in Legal Studies with a collaborative specialization in Political Economy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Their dissertation research focuses on obscenity law in Canada from a ghost criminological perspective utilizing a Derridean hauntological framework.
Meg has taught a variety of upper-year undergraduate courses in Criminology, Legal Studies, and Sociology at Carleton and Concordia. They developed two popular fourth-year seminars (Cultural Criminology and True Crime Media) and look forward to teaching them again this year.
Lonergan's research interests include: obscenity; moral regulation; sex and technology; violence; porn studies; cultural and critical criminology; law, culture, and the humanities; true crime; horror and gothic studies; qualitative methods and research ethics.