Dr. Elaine Cagulada researches and writes in the fields of critical disability studies, black studies, digital humanities, and sociology, and she also teaches in these areas. Animated by a will to notice the magic of interpretation, Elaine's work is concerned with stories as sites of containment and possibility. Indebted to the wisdom of Black, Indigenous, racialized, queer, disabled/Mad storytellers, she understands the urgency of rupturing and disturbing carceral logics and enclosures through the constitutive force of narrative. Heeding this call nourishes dreams of being together through, with, and in disability differently.

Currently, in the role of Research Officer at University of Toronto, Elaine is supporting Dr. Tanya Titchkosky lead the Canadian contingent of Disability Matters,  a major six-year pan-national programme of disability and health research, funded by a Wellcome Trust Discretionary Award, from 2023 to 2029. 

 

Elaine is also a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow working under the supervision of Dr. Katherine McKittrick in the Department of Gender Studies and Black Studies at Queen's University where she explores stories of race and disability as un/told through the memorialization of Canada's carceral institutions. 

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In 2023, she was awarded the Alice Wilson Award by the Royal Society of Canada.

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