Education
2022–present
Ph.D, Communication Studies
McGill University
2020–2022
M.A., Communication Studies
Carleton University
- 12.00 CGPA/4.00 GPA
- Master’s Thesis: Trans*mediation: Exploring Trans Experience Beyond the Mirror of Representation, supervised by Dr. Sheryl Hamilton
2017–2020
B.Coms Honours, Minor in Digital Humanities
Carleton University
- 12.00 CGPA/4.00 GPA
- Honours Research Essay: Natural Bodies, Natural Environments? Questioning Nature Through Hormonal Mediation, supervised by Dr. Liam Young
Awards & Scholarships
2024–2027
Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Scholar
2023
Canadian Communication Association Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Essay
- Paper title: Developing A Feminist Note-Taking System
2023
Friends Graduate Best Paper Prize in Gender and Women’s Studies
- Paper title: Today’s Gender is No: Playing with cisnormative platform infrastructure on Twitter
2022–2025
Tomlinson Doctoral Fellowship
2022–2025
SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, Doctoral
2022–2023
Jean de Granpré Prize for Outstanding Paper in Communication Studies
- Paper title: “Feels like my soul. Good job, AI”: Exploring a transspeculative structure of feeling via AI-generated imagery on Reddit
2022
Shree Mulay Graduate Award in Gender and Women’s Studies
2021–2022
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2021–2022
David and Rachel Epstein Scholarship
2021
Carleton University Dean of Graduate Studies Entrance Scholarship
2020–2021
SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, Master’s
2020–2021
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined due to conflict with SSHRC)
2020
Governor General’s Undergraduate Academic Medal
2020
Carleton University Communication Honours Research Essay Award
- Paper title: Natural Bodies, Natural Environments? Questioning Nature Through Hormonal Mediation
2019, 2021
Rogers Communications Award in Mass Communication
2018, 2019, 2021
Carleton University Dean’s Honour List
2018, 2019
Murdoch Maxwell MacOdrum Scholarship
Publications
2024 (Peer Reviewed)
Chokly, K. (2024). Today’s gender is no: Genderbot’s algorithmic platform resistance. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2023-0028
2022
Chokly, K. (2022). Networked note-taking as feminist research method. https://kitchokly.github.io/quartz/
2022 (Masters Thesis)
Chokly, K. (2022). Trans*mediation: Exploring Trans Experience Beyond the Mirror of Representation [Masters Thesis, Carleton University]. https://repository.library.carleton.ca/concern/etds/rn301255j
2022 (Peer Reviewed)
Sinclair-Palm, J., & Chokly, K. (2022). “It’s a giant faux pas”: Exploring Young trans people’s beliefs about deadnaming and the term deadname. Journal of LGBT Youth. https://doi.org/10.1080/19361653.2022.2076182
2021
Linton, M. Q., Lauriault, T. P., & Chokly, K. (2021, February 18). Invisible people and institutions: No data about custodial institutions for disabled people in Canada? Datalibre. http://datalibre.ca/2021/02/18/invisible-people-and-institutions-no-data-about-custodial-institutions-for-disabled-people-in-canada/
2020
Chokly, K. & Lauriault, T. P. (2020, July 14). Tracing COVID-19 data: Visualizing intersectionality. Datalibre. http://datalibre.ca/2020/07/14/tracing-covid-19-data-visualizing-intersectionality/
2020
Chokly, K., Cooper, J., Debney, O., & Horak, L. (2020). Transgender Media Portal Usability Test Report 2020. Humanities Commons. https://doi.org/10.17613/6C36-JN33
2020
Chokly, K. (2020, May 24). Designing the TMP: Considering visual hierarchy and identity. Transgender Media Portal. https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/node/1661
Presentations
June 2024
Envisioning Trans Futures: Montreal Trans & 2S Films x The Transgender Media Portal
Montreal, QC
Roundtable
March 2024
Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference 2024
Boston, MA
Today’s Gender is No: Genderbot, gender illegibility, and platform resistance
March 2024
philoSOPHIA Conference 2024
Calgary, AB
Indexing the unindexable: Building the Transgender Media Portal (co-speaker with Jada Gannon-Day and Evie Johnny Ruddy)
November 2023
American Studies Association Annual Meeting
Montreal, QC
A transspeculative structure of feeling: Articulating trans with image generation technologies
July 2023
32nd International Screen Studies Conference
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Shimmering representation: The trans*mediation of Silver Femme
June 2023
Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media and Feminism
University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
May 2023
Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference
York University, Toronto, ON
Developing a feminist note-taking system: An exploration of everyday academic methods
May 2023
(Un)Stable Diffusions: A two-day international symposium on AI’s publics, publicities, and publicizations
Concordia University, Montreal, QC
Giving unrealness: Feeling trans through text-to-image generation
April 2023
Feminist Research 2023 Conference: Feminist Dialogue Across Disciplines
McGill University, Montreal, QC
Note-taking as an interdisciplinary feminist method
March 2023
Moving Trans History Forward
University of Victoria, virtual
Interfacing identity. Part of the Developing Values & Putting Them into Action, Building the Transgender Media Portal panel
March 2023
GSFS 300: Research Inquiry in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies
McGill University, Montreal, QC
Feminist research methods roundtable (co-panelist)
November 2022
DIGH 5902: Digital Humanities, Media & Social Justice
Carleton University, virtual
The Transgender Media Lab (guest speaker)
May 2022
Association for Computers and the Humanities & Canadian Society for the Digital Humanities: DH Unbound 2022
Virtual
Tech, Ethics, and Community: Building the Transgender Media Portal (co-panelist)
February 2022
17th Annual Communication Graduate Caucus Conference: Supernatural
Carleton University, virtual
Today’s gender is… A new materialist approach to trans media
February 2022
DH Toolbox
University of Ottawa, virtual
Building the Transgender Media Portal (co-panelist)
March 2021
2nd International Temporal Belongings Conference: The Material Life of Time
Virtual
Natural bodies, natural environments? Questioning nature through hormonal mediation
March 2021
16th Annual Communication Graduate Caucus Conference: Transitioning
Carleton University, virtual
Vital mediations: Following flows of hormonal mediations
March 2021
16th Annual Communication Graduate Caucus Conference: Transitioning
Carleton University, virtual
Citations Needed Roundtable (co-speaker)
February 2021
Internet Governance Lab TPRC48 Graduate Research Symposium
American University, virtual
From queer utopia to queer apocalypse: A case for platform regulation
March 2021
GOOD21 Conference: Open for Community Wellbeing
GO Open Data Association, virtual
Hack the data gap (second speaker)
November 2020
COMS 3109: Communication, Culture, & Identity
Carleton University, virtual
Tracing COVID Data (guest lecture)
September 2020
COMS 4407: Communication and Critical Data Studies
Carleton University, virtual
Visualizing COVID Data Critically (guest lecture)
May 2020
CBC’s Spark with Nora Young Podcast
Virtual
The Isolation Museum (guest)
June 2020
a graph, a lovely tree symposium
SAW Video Media Art Centre’s Knot Project Space, virtual
The Transgender Media Portal (co-panelist)
November 2019
FYSM 1217: Reading and Writing for Media Studies
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
Tips for Academic Reading and Writing in Media Studies (co-panelist)
March 2018
13th Annual Communication Graduate Caucus Annual Graduate Conference: Post-?
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, cancelled in solidarity with union strike
Healthcare, self-care, every(wear): Exploring the biopolitics of consumer activity trackers
Research Positions
2023–present
Event Assistant
P.I. Dr. Alex Ketchum
2020, 2021–present
2020–2021
Research Assistant
Name choice among racialized trans youth
P.I. Dr. Julia Sinclair-Palm
2020–2021
Service
2023–present
Co-President
McGill University Art History and Communication Studies Graduate Student Association
2022–2023
Communications Officer
McGill University Art History and Communication Studies Graduate Student Association
January 2024
September 2023
Workshop Co-Designer and Co-Facilitator
McGill University Art History and Communication Studies Student-Run External Funding Workshop
Teaching Positions
Summer 2022
Teaching Assistant
COMS 1001: Foundations in Communication and Media Studies, Carleton University
Winter 2022
Teaching Assistant
COMS 3410: Visual Media and Communication, Carleton University
Fall 2020 & Winter 2021
Teaching Assistant
COMS 3109 Communication, Culture, & Identity, Carleton University