Jean Ketterling
Assistant Teaching Professor
PhD
Carleton Hall room 303
Fredericton
Jean Ketterling is an interdisciplinary researcher who specializes in the study of sex and videogames. Her research explores videogames as an increasingly important space for sexual expression and, therefore, as one space where relations of power and possibility take shape.
She holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in Legal Studies from Carleton University in Ottawa.
Her classes are learner-focused, informed by queer feminist pedagogical theory, prioritize building intellectual community and help students connect their lived experiences to the learning material.
She is a member of the steering committee for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ (SCMS) Critical Media Pedagogies Scholarly Interest Group.
In 2023/24, Jean was awarded a J.E.A. Crake grant from Mount Allison University to develop Clay / Bodies: Feminist and Queer Theory and Craft, a three-day workshop on the interconnection of feminist and queer theory, artistic practice and clay as a material.
Education
Jean Ketterling holds a Ph.D. in Legal Studies from Carleton University. She has an M.A. Legal Studies from Carleton and a B.A. in Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies from St. Francis Xavier University.
Courses taught
- CCS/MAAC 1021 - Intro to Culture Arts and Media
- CCS/MAAC 2021 - Popular Culture
- CCS/MAAC 3021 - Critical Approaches to Culture
- MAAC 1095 - Introduction to Game Studies
Selected publications: Refereed journal Articles
Ketterling, Jean. “Look Behind You! Playing with Sexual Surveillance in You Must Be 18 or Older to Enter and How Do You Do It?” Surveillance & Society 22, no. 1 (2024): 25–40. https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v22i1.15800.
Desjardins, Bridgette, and Jean Ketterling. “‘Running Makes Me Feel …’: The Production of Emotion through Leisure.” Leisure Studies 43, no. 3 (2024): 477–90. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2023.2205658.
Desjardins, Bridgette M., Jean Ketterling, and Taryn Hepburn. “It’s Not Fair! Constructing Gendered Legal Subjects via Trans-Exclusionary Sport Legislation.” International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics 14, no. 4 (2022): 673–87. https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2022.2127836.
Ketterling, Jean. “"You Do It for the Good Times”: Rival Feminist Readings of Torture and Kink in Grand Theft Auto V.” Feminist Media Studies, August 24, 2022, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2022.2113906.
Refereed book chapters
Ketterling, Jean. Forthcoming 2025. "Deplatforming Digital Sex: Self-Governing Sex in Video Games" In Handbook on Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies, edited by Matthew Wysocki and Steffi Shook. Bloomsbury.
Ketterling, Jean. 2023. "Playing with Borders: Bringing Emotion into the Law Classroom Using Video Games." In In Law, Video Games, Virtual Realities: Playing Laws, edited by Dale Mitchell, Ashley Pearson, and Timothy Peters, 133-153. Routledge
Khan, Ummni, and Jean Ketterling. 2019. "Rape as Play: Yellow Peril Panic and a Defence of Fantasy." In The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, 357-395. Brill Nijhoff. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004401716_016
