Media & Events
Recent Media Feature
"Innovator / Educator: Derritt Mason"
Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary
Keynote Lectures
2025
"Curtains, Blinds, and Closet Doors"
Francelia Butler Keynote Lecture, Children's Literature Association. Presented with Angel Daniel Matos and Katharine Slater. June 23.
2024
"What is Queer Pedagogy? Or, Stop Teaching Straight!"
Keynote roundtable, Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, University of Calgary. April 24.
2020
"Wet Hot Canadian Keynote, or What I've Learned at Camp/camp"
Camp/camp: The Collision of Style and Biopolitics, Western University. October 1-2.
2019
"Playing with Failure: Young People's Culture and the Media Ecologies of HIV/AIDS"
Queer Youth Doing Queer History: Memory, Museums, and the (Re)Making of Place, Galt Museum and Archives/University of Lethbridge. October 18.
Selected Speaking Engagements
2023
"Gaiety Games: HIV/AIDS Activism, Children's Literature, and Early Queer Video Games"
Children's Literature Program, University of Pittsburgh. April 20.
2022
"Queering the Fireside Chat: HIV/AIDS and Young Adult Popular Culture"
Rhodes House, University of Oxford. June 6.
2022
"Growing Up is Hell: Coming-of-Age and Horror Videogames"
Centre for Research in Children's Literature, University of Cambridge. June 1.
2020
"The Virtual Child: Children's Literature and Digital Culture"
Institute for Research in Digital Learning, York University. March 3.
2019
"Queer Visibility in Media for Young People: Two Case Studies"
Department of Teacher Education, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. August 21.
2018
"Queer Visibility in Media for Young People: Two Case Studies"
National Center for the Study of Children's Literature, San Diego State University. February 22.
Interviews & Podcasts
2024
"Innovator / Educator: Derritt Mason"
Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary. Watch on YouTube
2023
"Home-Away-Home with Dr. Derritt Mason"
The Games Institute Podcast (University of Waterloo). October 6. Listen
2023
"Your childhood books"
CBC Alberta at Noon with Judy Aldous. April 28.
2023
"When Video Games become the Sophisticated Texts of Higher Learning"
Arch Magazine. February 21. Read article
2022
"It's Dangerous to Go Alone!: The Secret Worlds of Video Games"
The Children's Table (Podcast), Season 3, Episode 4. November 30. Listen
2021
"Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture"
New Books Network / Queer Voices of the South (Podcast). March 10. Listen
2020
"Interview with Derritt Mason"
Witch, Please (Podcast). December 3.
2017
"The 20th Anniversary of Harry Potter"
CBC Alberta at Noon with Judy Aldous. June 28.