Axelle Demus, Ph.D., is a media historian, archival researcher, and educator. As the Community Archives and Accessibility Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University, Axelle is supporting the implementation of the McGill/FOCAS internship program and conducting interdisciplinary research focused on disability and accessibility across community archives in Canada and the U.S. Broadly speaking, Axelle’s research considers processes of “queer access mobilization” through which queer individuals and groups mobilize analog and digital technologies to increase access to media and information, as well as access to social, cultural, and/or political networks. Axelle is also invested in creative methodologies that help make vulnerable archival material available to classrooms and underrepresented communities. Axelle’s writing has been published in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, Public Journal, the Journal of 20th Media History, and the Canadian Journal of Film Studies. For more: axelledemus.com
