Billie is a PhD Candidate in Media Studies in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies. Her research interests lie primarily in the interconnection between narratives of disability and Hollywood cinema, focusing specifically on the prevalence of disabled aesthetics, tropes, and individual characteristics in body horror films, and the films of David Cronenberg.
With academic grounding in semiotics, film and critical theory, and disability studies, her other interests include the aesthetics of horror, monster studies, the intersection of gender and disability, and mimetics.
Billie grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan and is now living in Toronto. She holds a BA from Western University and King’s University College (Disability Studies and Psychology), and an MA from York University (Critical Disability Studies).
Contract Lecturer
King’s University College | Disability Studies | Ongoing
- DS 2214: Institutionalization Over Time
- DS 2216: Disability and Popular Culture
Teaching Assistant
Western University | Communications and Media Studies | 2020 - Present
- MIT 1020: Introduction to Media, Information and Technoculture
- MIT 2000: The History of Communication
- MIT 2100: Political Economy of Media
- MIT 2200: Mapping Media and Cultural Theory
Teaching Assistant
King’s University College | Disability Studies | 2020 - Present
- DS 1010: Exploring Disability
- DS 3312: Diverse Disability Studies Perspectives
- DS 3316: Memes and Dreams
Teaching Assistant
Toronto Metropolitan University | Sociology | 2022
- SOC 482: Advanced Approaches to Media Analysis
Teaching Assistant Training Program Instructor
Western University | Centre for Teaching and Learning | 2022 - 2023
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Coordinator
Lawson Health Sciences Centre | 2021 - Present
- PI: Jacqueline Ogilvie
- Project: Fit and Function School Study
Research Assistant
King’s University College | 2020 - 2021
- PI: Pamela Cushing
- Project: Disability Studies Global Survey
WORKSHOP FACILITATION
Cripping Pedagogies: Meeting Access Needs and Building Community in the Classroom and Beyond
University of Alberta | 2023
Disability and Screen Media: The Materiality of Media
Toronto Metropolitan University | 2022
Disability Studies and Universal Design for Learning
Huron University College | 2022
PUBLICATIONS
Anderson, Billie. “The Monstrous Disability and the Disabled Monster: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s Seven Monster Theses and Disability Creationism.” The Spectator, California, 2023.
Anderson, Billie. “Despite its Oscar win, CODA still depicts deafness as a burden.” The Conversation, 2022.
Anderson, Billie. “Die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a traditional American family sitcom: Exhausting parody and 33 years of The Simpsons.” In press, The Canadian Review of American Studies, 2022.
CREATIVE OUTPUTS
Cronenberg and the Abnormal Body
2022. Paper Presentation
FIMS Mediations, Western University
MovieJawn Staff Writer
2022 - Present https://www.moviejawn.com/home/categ ory/billie+anderson
FilmCred Staff Writer
2022 - Present https://film-cred.com/author/billie- anderson/
Little People of Ontario
Events and Fundraising Coordinator
Canadian Disability Studies Association
Communications Officer