Sarah Sharma

WGSI Director, Professor

Email: sarah.sharma@utoronto.ca

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Sarah Sharma

Sarah Sharma is Professor of Media Theory at the ICCIT/Faculty of Information and Director of the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto. 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 (with Cait McKinney) the Sign, Storage, Transmission Book series editor for Duke University Press. In 2024 she was awarded a Desmond Morton Research Excellence Award.

Education

2006 PhD Communication and Culture, York University, Toronto,

2000 MA International Relations and Political Theory, University of Westminster, Center for the Study of Democracy, London

1999 BA Political Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Selected Works

Refereed Books (University Press)

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

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

Honours and Awards

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses:

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

Graduate Courses:

INF2198 Readings in Feminist Technology

INF3010 Power, Media, Technology