Sarah Sharma

Sarah Sharma is Professor of Media Theory at the ICCIT/Faculty of Information and interim Director of WGSI. Her research and teaching focuses on the relationship between technology, time and labour with a specific focus on issues related to gender, race, and class.

Sarah is the author Insufferable Tools: Feminism Against Big Tech (Duke 2026) and In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics (Duke UP, 2014). She is the co-editor of Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan (Duke UP 2022), a volume which highlights her time as director of the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto between 2017-2022. She is a book series editor for Sign, Storage, Transmission (with Cait McKinney) at Duke University Press. In 2024 she was awarded a Desmond Morton Research Excellence Award at UTM.

July 2025, Acting Vice Dean, Research and Program Innovation, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto

September 2022, Director, Institute for Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (University of Toronto Mississauga)

Jan 2017-Jan 2022, Director, McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology, Teaching

PhD Communication and Culture, York University

MA International Relations and Political Theory, University of Westminster, Center for the Study of Democracy

BA Political Science, University of British Columbia

Insufferable Tools: Big Tech and the Broken Machine (forthcoming Duke University Press, 2025)

Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan edited with Rianka Singh Duke University Press, 2022

“Going to Work in Mommy’s Basement”, Boston Review, June 19, 2018  http://bostonreview.net/gender-sexuality/sarah-sharma-going-work-mommys-basement

In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics, Duke University Press, 2014

I have developed and designed each of these courses for ICCIT or the Faculty of Information

CCT340 Gender, Technology and Culture

CCT405: Special Topics Advanced Seminar in Surveillance and Race

CCT414: Special Topics: Technologies of Space and Time

CCT414: Special Topics: Technology and Gender

CCT200: Intercultural Communication

INF2198 Readings in Feminist Technology

INF3010 Power, Media, Technology