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Dr. Tobias Wiggins (he/him) is an assistant professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Athabasca University (AU), Alberta, Canada. His research program centers transgender health, queer visual culture, clinical transphobia, arts-based methodologies, and psychoanalysis. At AU, he coordinates the University Certificate in Counselling Women, an interdisciplinary program that applies feminist theory to the practice of counselling. His recent publications appear in Studies in Gender and Sexuality (2022), The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (2021), Transgender Studies Quarterly (2020), the anthology "Gender-Affirming Psychiatric Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse People" (2023).
Transgender Studies • Psychoanalysis • Community and Arts-Based Research • Decolonialization • Queer & Feminist Theory •Queer & Trans Visual Culture
Wiggins, T. (forthcoming 2024). Gird your loins: The transgender psychoanalysts are coming!. E. Punzi, V. Sinclair, & M. Sauer (Eds.) The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Contemporary Times. Routledge.
Wiggins, T. (forthcoming 2024). T4T Research and Storytelling Trans Futures during the COVID-19 Pandemic. I. Shankar & C. L. Mason (Eds.), Unmasking Academia: Institutional inequities laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic. University of Alberta Press.
Wiggins, T. (2023). How Cis?: Recognizing and Managing Transphobic Countertransference in Psychotherapy. T. G. Goetz, & A. S. Keuroghlian (Eds.), Gender-Affirming Psychiatric Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse People. American Psychiatric Association, pp. 171-184.
Wiggins, T. (2022). Do Psychoanalysts Dream of Polymorphous Sleep: Clinical Desiring with Transgender Subjects. 23(2), 146-162. Journal of Gender and Sexuality. https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2022.2072578
Wiggins, T. (2021). Listening for Trans Childism in Discursive Concern. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. 75(1), 191-197. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00797308.2021.1975461
Gozlan, O., Osserman, J., Silber, L., Wallerstein, H., Watson, E., Wiggins, T. (2021). Transgender Children: From Controversy to Dialogue. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. 75(1), 198-214. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00797308.2021.1975462
Wiggins, T. & Woodams, E. (2020). A Dialogue on Therapeutic Peer-to-Peer Models for Trans and Nonbinary Surgical Support. QED: A Journal In GLBTQ Worldmaking, 7(3), 39-52. muse.jhu.edu/article/781359.
Wiggins, T. (2020). A Perverse Solution to Misplaced Distress: Trans Subjects and Clinical Disavowal. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 7(1), 56–76. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-7914514
Wiggins, T. (2020). The Pervert on Your Couch: Psychoanalysis and Trans/Sexual Health. In J. Niemira, G, Jacobson, & K. Violet (Eds.), Sex, Sexuality and Trans Identities: Clinical Guidance for Psychotherapists and Counselors. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, pp. 155–181.
Wiggins, T. (2020). Non-Recognition and Healing Transgender Trauma with Yoga. In M. Klein (Ed). Embodied Resilience: 30 mindful essays about finding empowerment after addiction, trauma, grief, and loss. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, pp. 157 – 166.
Wiggins, T. (2020). Leave Britney Alone!: And Other Spectral Affects. In A. Mitchell & C. McKinney (Eds.), Killjoy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House. Vancouver: UBC Press; Toronto: Art Gallery of York University; Los Angeles: The ONE Archive, pp. 194–196.
Wiggins, T. (2017). Encountering Inheritance in Vivek Shraya’s I want to kill myself. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 4(3–4), 668–674. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-4190046
Areas of Teaching Competence
Gender & Sexuality Studies • Transgender Studies • Queer & Feminist Theory • Decolonization • Qualitative Research Methodologies • Counselling & Mental Health • Feminist Psychology • Critical Disability Studies • Race & Racism • Critical Whiteness Studies • Popular & Marginal Media • Trauma & Violence • Somatechnics/Technologies of the Body • Psychoanalysis
Graduate Course Instruction, Athabasca University
WGST 522 Decolonizing Mental Health, May 2024 – Sept 2024
WGST 522 Violence against Women: A Global Perspective, Nov 2019–Dec 2020
Undergraduate Asynchronous Course Instruction, Athabasca University
WGST 305 Decolonizing Mental Health, Feb 2024-present
PSYC 345 The Psychology of Gender and Sexuality, May 2022–present
WGST 422 Violence against Women: A Global Perspective, Sept 2021–present
WGST 305 Counselling with Indigenous Women, Nov 2019–present
PSYC 347 Introduction to Feminist Counselling, Nov 2019–present
WGST 304 Issues in Aboriginal Women's Health and Wellness, Nov 2019–present
WGST 310 Feminist Approaches to Counselling Women, Nov 2019–present
WGST 302 Communication Skills and Counselling Practice, Nov 2019–present
WGST 499 Final Project, Nov 2019–present
WGST 303 Gender, Women, and Health, Nov 2019–Sept 2021
PSYC 345 The Psychology of Women, Nov 2019–May 2022
Personal Website: https://www.tobywiggins.com
Academia.edu: https://athabascau.academia.edu/TobiasBDWiggins
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiaswiggins/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tobiaswiggins
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tobiasbdwiggins
Twitter/X: https://x.com/WigginsTobias
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PhD, Women's and Gender Studies , York University Toronto
Award Date: 1 Jun. 2019
M.A, Women's and Gender Studies, York University Toronto
Award Date: 1 Oct. 2012
B.A, Women's Studies, Trent University
Award Date: 1 Apr. 2010
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Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
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