Sarah Sharma is currently acting Vice Dean, Research and Program Innovation at the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto where she is Professor of Media Theory at the ICCIT/Faculty of Information. Her research and teaching focuses on feminist approaches to technology with particular attention to the relationship between time, gender, and labour.
Sarah is the author Insufferable Tools: Feminism Against Big Tech (Duke 2026) and In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics (Duke UP, 2014). She is the co-editor of Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan (Duke UP 2022), a volume which highlights her time as director of the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto between 2017-2022. She is (with Cait McKinney) the Sign, Storage, Transmission Book series editor for Duke University Press. In 2024 she was awarded a Desmond Morton Research Excellence Award.
BOOKS
INSUFFERABLE TOOLS: FEMINISM AGAINST BIG TECH
In a world seemingly run by the whims and power plays of Musks and Zucks, Insufferable Tools cuts to the core of modern technology’s gendered politics.
RE-UNDERSTANDING MEDIA: FEMINIST EXTENSIONS OF MARSHALL MCLUHAN
Advancing a feminist version of Marshall McLuhan’s key text, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, and repurposing his insight that “the medium is the message” for feminist ends.
IN THE MEANTIME: TEMPORALITY AND CULTURAL POLITICS
The world is getting faster. This sentiment is proclaimed so often that it is taken for granted, rarely questioned or examined by those who celebrate the notion of an accelerated culture or by those who decry it.