Lisbeth Berbary

Contact information

Office: Mathematics & Computer (MC) 1035

Phone: 519-888-4567, ext. 35404

Email: lberbary@uwaterloo.ca

Research interests

I am committed to qualitative inquiry informed by both critical and deconstructive theories, and the postmodern, narrative, and ontological turns. I am particularly interested in representing my findings through accessible and collaborative creative analytic practices, such as ethno-screenplay, slam poetry, and composite narrative. Currently, I am co-constructing zines, comics, and graphic novels to represent my work with bisexual/pansexual-identified individuals concerning their navigation of biphobia and bisexual erasure.

Graduate supervision and student opportunities

I am currently accepting applications from graduate students with related research interests:

• Gender/sexuality
• Race/ethnicity/class
• LGBTQ+
• Identity/subjectivity
• Social theories (critical, feminist, critical race, poststructural, queer, postcolonial, posthumanist)
• Qualitative methodologies (narrative inquiry, ethnography, arts-based)
• Creative analytic practices
• Social inclusivity/community engagement
• Political activism/social change/equity

Graduate studies application details

Teaching interests

• Onto-epistemological frameworks
• Social theories
• Qualitative inquiry
• Therapeutic recreation/activism
• Gender/race/class/sexuality/ability
• Intersectionality/interconnectivity

• Diversity/inclusivity/equity

Education

BA (Ithaca College)

MSc (SUNY Cortland)

PhD (Georgia) with graduate certificates in women's studies and interdisciplinary qualitative research

Selected publications

See Google Scholar for a full list of publications.

Berbary, L.A. & Boles, J.C.* (2014). Eight reflection points: Re-visiting Scaffolding For Improvisational Humanist Qualitative Inquiry, Leisure Sciences, 36 (5), 401-419.

Berbary, L.A. (2011). Post-structural writerly representation: Screenplay as creative analytic practice, Qualitative Inquiry, 17(2), 186-196.

Berbary, L.A. (2012). Don’t be a whore, that’s not ladylike: Discursive Discipline and Sorority Women’s Gendered Subjectivity, Qualitative Inquiry, 18(7), 535-554.

Berbary, L.A. (2015). Creative Analytic Practices: Onto-episto-theoretical attachments, uses, and constructions within Humanist Qualitative Leisure Research, International Leisure Review, 2(4), 27-55.

Berbary, L.A. & Johnson, C.W. (2016). En/Activist Drag: Kings Reflect on Queerness, Queens, and Questionable Masculinities, Leisure Sciences, DOI: 10.1080/01490400.2016.1194791

Arai, S., Berbary, L.A., & Dupuis, S. (2015). Re-imagining therapeutic recreation: transformative practices and innovative approaches, Leisure/Loisir, 39(2), 299-321.