Jas Rault

Jas Rault (they/them) is an Associate Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Arts, Culture, Media (UTSC) and the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Jas’s research focuses on trans- feminist and queer digital praxes and protocols; media histories of settler coloniality, white supremacy and sexuality; aesthetics and affects of social movements. Recent publications include “Window Walls and Other Tricks of Transparency: Digital, Colonial and Architectural Modernity” (American Quarterly); “White Noise, White Affects: Filtering the Sameness of Queer Suffering” (Feminist Media Studies); “Ridiculizing Power: Relajo and the Affects of Queer Activism in Mexico” (Scholar & Feminist Online). Rault’s first book is Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In (Ashgate/Routledge) and they’re currently working on a book, provisionally entitled Open Secrets: Technologies of Whiteness in Decline.

Jas frequently collaborates with T.L. Cowan. Together they have co-authored a book entitled Heavy Processing, about trans- feminist and queer digital research methods and ethics (open access, punctum books, 2024). They are the co-editors of a “Metaphors as Meaning and Method in Technoculture,” a special section of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience (Fall 2022) and co-authors of numerous essays together. Cowan & Rault co-direct two online research environments: the Cabaret Commons, the Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory (DREC) and are founding directors of the Critical Digital Methods Institute (CDMI).