Dr Elaine Cagulada
Faculty of Social Sciences
Research Officer
- Profile
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Dr. Elaine Cagulada researches and writes in the fields of critical disability studies, black studies, digital humanities, and sociology, and she also teaches in these areas. Animated by a will to notice the magic of interpretation, Elaine's work is concerned with stories as sites of containment and possibility. Indebted to the wisdom of Black, Indigenous, racialized, queer, disabled/Mad storytellers, she understands the urgency of rupturing and disturbing carceral logics and enclosures through the constitutive force of narrative. Heeding this call nourishes dreams of being together through, with, and in disability differently.
Currently, in the role of Research Officer at University of Toronto, Elaine is supporting Dr. Tanya Titchkosky lead the Canadian contingent of Disability Matters, a major six-year pan-national programme of disability and health research, funded by a Wellcome Trust Discretionary Award, from 2023 to 2029.
In 2023, she was awarded the Alice Wilson Award by the Royal Society of Canada.
- Publications
Cagulada, E. (2025). Reading the realm of the visible: Exploring norms of seeing and deafness storied as trouble. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.
Cagulada, E., and Titchkosky, T. (2024). Inclusion without access: Policing encounters with deafness. In K. Ellis, M. Kent, & K. Cousins (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Disability Studies. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429324604-27
Cagulada, E. (2024). Articulations of an institution: Attending to disability narrated as site of emergency. Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability.
Cagulada, E., & Titchkosky, T. (2024). An urgent pause: Facing the intertwined constitution of race and disability. In Goodley, D., Halsey, R., Scully, J., Singh, S., Titchkosky, T. and Wong, M.E. (Eds.). The Disability Matters Scholarship Collection. Sheffield: University of Sheffield. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disability-matters/disability-matters-scholarship-collection/online-symposia-university-toronto
Cagulada, E., & Esteban, J. M. (2023). In, against, and beyond the Ivory: Dreams of belonging otherwise through wonder and embodied poetry. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. doi:10.3138/top a-2023-0010
Cagulada, E. (2022). The infinity of the encounter: Storying deafness, disability, race, and the sound of story. In T. Titchkosky, E. Cagulada, M. DeWelles (Eds.), DisAppearing: Encounters in Disability Studies. Canadian Scholar’s Press. https://canadianscholars.ca/book/disappearing/
Cagulada, E., & DeWelles, M. (2022). The sounds of memory: Troubling the professionalization of knowledge through Black women’s memoir and interpretive disability studies. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. https://doi.org/10.1177/14639491221128245
Cagulada, E. (2022). For Dana and her ancestors: A poetic emergence from Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred. New Sociology: Journal of Critical Praxis. https://nsjcp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/default/article/view/109/45
Cagulada, E. (2020). A self in thirds. Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry, 12(1), 5-7. https://doi.org/10.18733/cpi29525
Cagulada, E. (2020). Persistence, art, and survival. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 9(4). https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v9i4.668