Dr. KelleyAnne Malinen

Associate Professor

 

Contact

Office: Evaristus Hall 443

Phone: (902) 457 5979

Email: kelleyanne.malinen@msvu.ca

Background

 

PhD in Sociology – Université Laval
Masters in Sociology – Dalhousie University
Baccalaureate in Sociology, honours – Dalhousie University

 

Teaching

 

For 2025-2026, I will be teaching SOAN 1502 (Questioning Society), SOAN 2531 (Making a Living), SOAN/WOMS 2570 (Gender & Society), SOAN/WOMS 3572 (Sex and Sexualities) and SOAN 3592/4590 (Selected Topics: Structure and Freedom).

My teaching invites and explores a range of perspectives, thinking through implications of diverse social science perspectives. In addition to course instruction, I supervise graduate students in the Graduate Women and Gender Studies Program shared by Mount Saint Vincent University and Saint Mary’s University.

 

Research

Specialized in the area of gender and sexuality, my primary program of research explores discourse about and institutionalized responses to sexual violence from diverse perspectives. Most recently, the Culture and Perspectives on Sexual Assault Policy (CAPSAP) study has explored of how students from a range of cultural communities relate to sexual violence policies and services in Nova Scotian postsecondary institutions. Previous work has focused on sexual and intimate partner violence that transgresses gender norms, such as woman-to-woman sexual assault. The following is a representative selection of research publications:

Malinen, K, Kennedy, K., MacLeod, E., VanTassel, B., & O’Rourke, K. (2024). Culturally Diverse Female-Identified Students Discuss Sexual Assault Policies: Dialectics of Safety/Danger.  Affilia, 39(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099231208945

Malinen, K., Brigham, S. & Kennedy, K. (2024) Can Colour-Blind Communication be Culturally Responsive? Input on Sexual Violence Policies and Services from Culturally Matched Student Focus Groups. Sexuality & Culture (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-024-10218-y

Malinen, K., VanTassel, B., Kennedy, K., MacLeod, E., & O’Rourke, K. (2023). Victimhood and Blame Dialectics in Culturally Diverse Male Students’ Discussions About Sexual Assault Policies. The Journal of Men’s Studies, 31(3), 371-395. https://doi.org/10.1177/10608265231182100

Malinen, K., 2021. A queer intervention on marriage [short intervention]. In Khasnabish, A. (Primary Author). Making Sense of Society (textbook). Fernwood Publishing.

Malinen, K., & Tobin, C. 2020. The “Homosociality” of Paradoxes and Erasures in Scholarship on Campus Sexual Assault and Hazing. In Crocker, D., Minaker, J., and Nelund, A. (Eds.) Violence Interrupted: Confronting Sexual Violence on University Campuses. McGill-Queens University Press, pp. 188-204.

Malinen, K. (Ed). 2019. Dis/Consent: Perspectives on Sexual Consent and Sexual Violence. Fernwood Publishing.

Malinen, K. 2019. Surviving woman-to-woman sexual assault. In K. Malinen (Ed.) Dis/Consent: Perspectives on Sexual Consent and Sexual Violence. Fernwood Publishing, pp. 84-94.

Malinen, K. 2018. Gender, free will, and woman-to-woman sexual assault in service provider discourses. Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, 33(1), 56-68.

Malinen, K. 2014. “This was a sexual assault”: A social worlds analysis of paradigm change in the Interpersonal Violence World. Symbolic Interaction, 37(3), 353-368.

Malinen, K. 2012. Thinking woman-to-woman rape: A critique of Marcus’s ‘Theory and politics of rape prevention’. Sexuality & Culture, 17(2), 360-376.