{"id":585,"date":"2018-11-20T19:03:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T19:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/desireemaxineschmitt\/?page_id=585"},"modified":"2020-05-05T20:55:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T20:55:41","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/desireemaxineschmitt\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/desireemaxineschmitt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/344\/2020\/05\/GradPhoto_Schmitt-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/desireemaxineschmitt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/344\/2020\/05\/GradPhoto_Schmitt-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/desireemaxineschmitt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/344\/2020\/05\/GradPhoto_Schmitt-768x888.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/desireemaxineschmitt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/344\/2020\/05\/GradPhoto_Schmitt-220x254.jpg 220w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/desireemaxineschmitt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/344\/2020\/05\/GradPhoto_Schmitt.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I am a graduate of the Bachelor of Arts with a Major in Liberal Studies program at Capilano University. In my undergraduate academic career, I focused my coursework in the fields of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, Anthropology, and English. My passion, however, was in feminist scholarship. To date, I have investigated and\/or written research papers on: <a href=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/desireemaxineschmitt\/2018\/11\/20\/critical-reflection-5-masculinities-so-fragile-you-can-drink-them-away\/\">emergent masculinities<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/desireemaxineschmitt\/2018\/11\/20\/critical-reflection-4-the-cultural-construct-of-fatherhood\/\">cross-cultural perspectives on fatherhood<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/desireemaxineschmitt\/2018\/11\/20\/cultural-artifact-analysis\/\">the male initiation rites of the Sambia of Papua New Guinea<\/a>, black masculinity in the film <em>Moonlight<\/em> (incorporating queer theory), masculinity in the Canadian workplace, queer masculinity, machismo in the film <span class=\"st\"><em>Y Tu Mam\u00e1 Tambi\u00e9n<\/em>, representations of masculinity in contemporary Western art<\/span>, and &#8220;traditional&#8221; and contemporary gender roles among First Nations and\/or Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Spring 2020, I completed my Graduating Project entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/desireemaxineschmitt\/2020\/04\/21\/gendered-experiences-at-capilano-university\/\">Gender(ed) Experiences at Capilano University<\/a>. This qualitative research project explores how Capilano University students&#8217; experiences are influenced by their gender identities and expressions, and other intersecting categories like race, class, or ability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a graduate of the Bachelor of Arts with a Major in Liberal Studies program at Capilano University. In my undergraduate academic career, I focused my coursework in the fields of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, Anthropology, and English. My passion, however, was in feminist scholarship. To date, I have investigated and\/or written research papers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-585","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/desireemaxineschmitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/desireemaxineschmitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/desireemaxineschmitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/desireemaxineschmitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/desireemaxineschmitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/desireemaxineschmitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/desireemaxineschmitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/desireemaxineschmitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}