Research

Highlighted Publications:

CBC Ideas “Paranormal Programming”, created by Jennifer Jill Fellows and Matthew Lazin-Ryder. March 12th 2025

  Can be listened to here

CBC Ideas “A Harem of Computers: The History of the Feminized Machine” created by Jennifer Jill Fellows and Matthew Lazin-Ryder. October 26th 2022.

Can be listened to here

Gender Sex and Tech: An Intersectional Feminist Guide, co-edited by Jennifer Jill Fellows and Lisa Smith, Canadian Scholars/Women’s Press. 2022.

Can be ordered here

Publications:

  • Chapter 13 “Mindless Sin-Eating: Feminist Ethics and AI” in Feminist Ethics: An Introduction to Fundamental Concepts and Issues, Celia Edell and Charlotte Sabourin (eds.) Routledge 2026.
  • “In Our Own Words: A Podcast Miniseries for the Canadian Menstrual Justice Movement,” with Angelene Prakash, Diana More, Neal Aldoph, Nicole White and Lisa Smith, in Northern Blood: Period Politics and Activism in Canada, Lisa Smih and Francesca Scalia eds. McGill Queens University Press. 2026.
  • “Paranormal Programming” CBC Ideas, Jennifer Jill Fellows and Matthew Lazin-Ryder. March 12th 2025 https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16133623-we-believe-artificial-intelligence-believe-ghosts
  • Special Issue of Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice, “Ruptures, Resistance and Reclamation: Global Feminisms in a Digital Age” Iqra Shagufta Cheema, Jennifer Jill Fellows, Lisa Smith (eds.) Issue 46.1 March 2025 https://atlantisjournal.ca/index.php/atlantis?fbclid=IwY2xjawItznZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdxeFwKoUpvpsYiaSwrlvgCWBwWQF4_mKviw_9ZYcXrhnrdaIKPFDI2hrQ_aem_WrIioHb8JJx24eV51Qb5vQ
  • “Making Up a Mimic: Interacting with Echoes in the Age of AI” Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, no. 15. 2023. https://doi.org/10.24117/2526-2270.2023.i15.02 
  • “Teaching Students to Podcast” Humanities Podcast Network Teaching Manuel. Ulrich Baer, Robin Davies, Eric Detweiler, Jill Fellows, Emmy Herland, Kevin Howley, Beth Kramer, Lena Matthews, Harly Ramsey. 2022. https://humanitiespodnetwork.org/teaching-manual/
  • “A Harem of Computers: The History of the Feminized Machine”CBC Ideas Jennifer Jill Fellows and Matthew Lazin-Ryder. October 26th 2022. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/1.6630587
  • Chapter #7 “A Harem of Computers and A Mummery of Bondage” Gender Sex and Tech: An Intersectional Feminist Guide, Jennifer Jill Fellows and Lisa Smith (eds) Ontario: Canadian Scholars Women’s Press. 2022.
  • “Introduction” Gender Sex and Tech: An Intersectional Feminist Guide, Jennifer Jill Fellows and Lisa Smith, Canadian Scholars/Women’s Press. 2022.
  • Chapter #13 “Being Objective: How Mr. Nowhere Threatens the Success of Co-management” Canadian Environmental Philosophy, Tyler DesRoches et. al. (eds). Ontario: McGill-Queens University Press. 2019.
  • “Trust without shared belief: pluralist realism and polar bear conservation.” Perspectives on Science 25.1 (2017): 36-66.
  • “Downstream of the Experts: Trust-building and the Case of MPA’s”   Social Epistemology Vol. 27. July 2013
  •  “The way of life of Mr. Nowhere: Examining Harding’s “Objectivity and Diversity”.” Philosophical Studies 174.7 (2017): 1807-1818. 
  • “Eddies and Currents: A Reply to Sassower.”Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 2 (11): 29-37 This publication can be found here.
  •  Invited Review of Shifting Ground: Knowledge, Reality, Transgression and Trustworthiness by Naomi Scheman. Hypatia Reviews Online  This publication can be found here.
  •  Review of The American Pragmatists by Cheryl Misak. Dialogue. December 2013. Pp. 1-13
  •  “Categorically Not Cackling: Duty, Moral Fiction and Witchcraft”  in Terry Pratchett and Philosophy, Jacob Held and James South, eds. Book to be published December 2014.

    Dissertation:

    “Making Up Knowers: Objectivity and Categories of Epistemic Subjects”

    Can be read here.

    Presentations:

    • April 2026 “Entrusting to ELIZA” Keynote presentation for the Feminists Tackle AI Series at Memorial University, Newfoundland. Hybrid Event.
    • April 2025 “Paranormal Programming and the Will to Believe” Philosophy in Technology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. Conference in Hybrid Format.
    • April 2024 “Binary Bonding: Programming Care and Scripting the Self” Digital Worlds Workshop, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Conference Online.
    • April 2024 “Binary Bonding: Programming Care and Scripting the Self” Philosophy in Technology Wrocław University of Science and Technology. Conference Online.
    • April 2023 “Minds, Machines and Marginalization” Philosophy in Technology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology. Conference Online.
    • May 2022 “An Archive for Who?” Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science. Conference Online.
    • May 2021 “A Harem of Computers and A Mummery of Bondage” accepted at the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science. Conference Online
    • October 2019, “A Mummery of Bondage: Siri and the Subversion of the Master-Slave Dialectic” invited presentation for the Philosophy Colloquium at the University of Victoria.
    • August 2019 “Blasting Stereotypes All Over: The Raging Grannies and the Strategic Deployment of the Social Imaginary” for the Canadian Sociological Association, Congress, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
    • August 2019 Invited Panelist “This Is Not A Pipe(Line)” for the Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy at the Canadian Philosophical Association, Congress, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
    • August 2018 “Sex and the Jester: Hypervisibility, Epistemic Defiance and the case of Sue Johanson” for the Feminist Epstemology, Metaphysics and Methodologies, Corvallis, Oregon, USA.
    • August 2015, “Hooking On and Biting Back: A Defense of Longino’s Account of Objectivity,” for the Congress on Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Helsinki, Finland.
    • April 2015 Invited Presenter “Following the Serpent’s Trail: Pluralism and Practical Paralysis” for the William James Society, Pacific APA, Vancouver, British Columbia.
    • February 2014 Invited Presenter “The Two-Expert Problem: Pluralism and Parrhesia” for the Science, Technology and Society research group, Vancouver, British Columbia.
    • November 2013 “Thin Ice: Trust Pluralism and Polar Bear Conservation” for the Canadian Society for Epistemology, Sherbrooke Quebec.
    • October 2013, Invited Panelist, “The Plight of the Polar Bears,” Vancouver Science Center’s Science Café panel discussion.
    • June 2013 “Thin Ice: Trust, Pluralism and Polar Bear Conservation” for the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Congress for Social Sciences and Humanities. Victoria, British Columbia.
    • June 2013 “Thin Ice: Trust, Pluralism and Polar Bear Conservation” for the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Congress for Social Sciences and Humanities. Victoria, British Columbia.
    • October, 2012 “Story-Tellers and Picture-Books: Extending the Narrative View of Self” for the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, Calgary, Alberta
    • October 2012 “Categories of Knowers: The Place of Ethics and Mental Health in Reconceptualizing Objectivity,” for the Western Canadian Philosophical Association, Victoria, B.C.
    • June 2010 “The Looping Effects of Objectivity” for the International Association of Women Philosophers, London Ontario.
    • May 2009 “Resurrecting Metis: An Exercise in Intersubjectivity,” for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture Society, Congress for Social Sciences and Humanities, Carlton ON.
    • November 2008 “Moderate Moralism and the Morally Defective Perspective,” co-authored with Josh Johnston. American Society for Aesthetics Annual General Meeting.
    • June 2008 “Absurdity, Navel-gazers and Infallible Popes,” Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture Society, Congress for Social Sciences and Humanities, Vancouver B.C.
    • May 2008 “Moderate Moralism and the Morally Defective Perspective,” co-authored with Josh Johnston. Canadian Society for Aesthetics, Congress for Social Sciences and Humanities, Vancouver B.C. Co-winner of best graduate student paper at the conference.

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