Dr. Liz Millward holds a BA(Hons) from Nottingham University, and an MA and PhD in Women’s Studies from York University.
From January to June 2022 she is Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, UK.
Her research interests are in the history and geography of women’s spaces, with a particular focus on the role of transportation and mobility in the development and spread of culture and community. She is the author of Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community across Canada, 1964-84 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015) and co-author, with Janice G. Dodd and Irene Fubara-Manuel, of Killing Off the Lesbians: A Symbolic Annihilation on Film and Television (Jefferson: McFarland, 2017). Her book Women in British Imperial Airspace, 1922-1937 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008) won the Canadian Women’s Studies Association Annual Book Prize in 2010, and an Honourable Mention for the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association.
Courses:
WOMN 1600 Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies in the Social Sciences
WOMN 2000 Feminist Thought
WOMN 2500 Race, Class and Sexuality
WOMN 2600 Sex, Gender, Space, and Place
WOMN 2610 Gender, Transport and Social Justice
WOMN 3500 Women and the Military
WOMN 3500 Women and Leadership
WOMN 3550 Feminist Community Organizing: Theories and Practices
WOMN 4100 Honours Thesis
WOMN 4200 Honours Seminar
Honours Thesis supervision:
Supervisory areas: feminist geography; feminist theory; gender and mobility; lesbian history.
Selected publications:
Books:
Millward, Liz, Janice G. Dodd and Irene Fubara-Manuel. Killing Off the Lesbians: A Symbolic Annihilation on Film and Television. Jefferson: McFarland, 2017.
Millward, Liz. Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community across Canada, 1964-84. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015.
Millward, Liz. Women in British Imperial Airspace, 1922-1937. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008.
Selected articles:
Millward, Liz. “Lesbian Nation and Black nationalism.” Women's History Review (2021),
DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2021.1954334
Millward, Liz. “‘That crosscountry 1969 vw squareback and holiday inn affair’: Lesbian mobility.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 24, no. 3 (2020): 298-310. doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/10894160.2019.1676594
Millward, Liz. “The Place of Geography in Lesbian History.” History Compass (2019): e12580. https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12580
Jennings, Rebecca, and Liz Millward. ““A fully formed blast from abroad?”: Australasian lesbian circuits of mobility and the transnational exchange of ideas in the 1960s and 1970s.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 25, no. 3 (2016): 463-487.
Millward, Liz, and Janice G. Dodd. “Mid-course correction: ‘Don't ask, don't tell’ and Stargate SG-1 femslash.” Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture 1, no. 1 (2016): 41-59.
Millward, Liz. “Xena and the Warrior Poets: Audre Lorde, Monique Wittig, and the Myths of Lesbian Origins.” Feminist Media Studies 14, no. 1 (2014): 135-146.
Millward, Liz. “Making a Scene: Struggles over lesbian place-making in anglophone Canada, 1964-1984.” Women's History Review 21, no. 4 (2012): 1-17.
Boulay, Nadine, Mylene Gamache, Liz Millward, and Jen Portillo. “Desiring Young Les(bi)an Visionaries in the Archive.” Australian Feminist Studies 27, no. 72 (2012): 189-203.
Selected book chapters:
Millward, Liz. “Grounded: The Limits of Imperial Aeromobility.” In Empire and Mobility in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by David Lambert and Peter Merriman, 195-215. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020.
Millward, Liz. “‘Un aéroport-fantôme’: The Ghost of Mirabel International Airport.” In Spectral Spaces and Hauntings: The Affects of Absence, edited by Christina Lee, 103-116. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Millward, Liz. “Examining Nationalism in Canada's Mobility History.” In Mobility in History: Reviews and Reflections: T2M Yearbook 2012, edited by Peter Norton, Gijs Mom, Liz Millward, and Mathieu Flonneau, 103-109. Neuchâtel: Éditions Alphil - Presses universitaires suisses, 2011.
Millward, Liz. “Lesbian Conferences in Canada in the 1970s; Sexual and Erotic Spaces?” In Sapphists, Sexologists and Sexualities: Lesbian Histories Volume II, edited by Sonja Tiernan and Mary McAuliffe, 128-143. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009.
