Research Statement and Interests

Adriana’s research intersects and thinks with diverse curriculum scholars and philosophies. In particular, her work intercepts and thinks with the philosophies of Deleuze and Guattari in order to explore what it might mean to engage with place and difference differently in a digital-techno society that is everyday restricting both notions of place and belonging in contemporary public and educational spaces.

Her many research interests revolve around migrant, minoritized, marginalized, and racialized population tensions and subjectivity impacts as they are represented and felt in digital media and educational spaces/places; an in situ, as singularity critical media ethics for online education; a multi-modal literacy education; anti-racist education; im/migrant-settler-Indigenous relations in place; and, a desire infused methods for online research practice.

Academic Contributions

  • Book Chapters

    Boffa, A. (2022). Transversing digi-spaces and newcomer youth encounters: Considering a minoritarian politics online. In J. L. Beier & j. jagodzinski (Eds.), Ahuman pedagogy: Multidisciplinary perspectives for education in the anthropocene. Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi-org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/10.1007/978-3-030-94720-0_7

    Refereed Journal Articles

    Boffa, A. (2017). The question of residential schools in Canada: Preserve, demolish or repurpose? Canadian Social Studies. https://canadian-social-studies-journal.educ.ualberta.ca/content/articles#chapter4

    Refereed Conference Abstracts

    Boffa, A., McFeetors, P. J., & Higgins, M. (2020, May 29-June 4). Are STEM games intended to be educative [Abstract accepted for cancelled presentation]. Canadian Society for the Study of Education Conference, London, Ontario, Canada. https://jcacs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jcacs/issue/view/#### acs/issue/view/####

    Non-Refereed Articles

    McFeetors, P. J., Higgins, M., Candler, A., & Boffa, A. (2019). Understanding teachers’ educative play with STEM games. Repository for Engage 2019: Celebration of Research and Teaching Excellence, Edmonton, AB. Retrieved from ERA https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-y2v5-s236

    Boffa, A. (2016, February 5). Re(building) to heal: La Loche, residential schools, reconciliation in Canada. Space & Culture [website]. http://www.spaceandculture.com/2016/02/05/rebuilding-to-heal-la-loche-residential-schools-reconciliation-in-canada/

  • Boffa, A. (2022). Digi-Spaces and Newcomer Youth Encounters: Considerations for Place|Making in Educational Spaces. [Unpublished Doctoral thesis]. University of Alberta. https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-0fy5-d263

    Boffa, A. (2015). Schizophrenizing the Latino/a subjectivity: A pedagogy of transformation [Unpublished Master’s thesis]. University of Alberta. https://doi.org/10.7939/R36M3364X

  • Peer-Reviewed

    (International)

    Boffa, A. (2019, July). Towards becoming-newcomer: Place making when place is ‘no place’. Paper accepted for the 12th Annual Deleuze & Guattari Studies Conference. Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

    Boffa, A. (2017, April). Unsettling settler spaces toward an ethos of reconciliation: Engaging with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Report. Paper accepted for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting. San Antonio, NM. (Not attended)

    Boffa, A. (2014, February). Oozing biopower in Machete: The pedagogy of deterritorialization in the classroom. Paper presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM.

    Boffa, A., & Krahn, M. (2013, April). Smoldering western epistemologies with the braiding of Deleuzian philosophy and Indigenous Métissage. Paper presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS) 12th Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. (lead presenter)

    (National)

    Boffa, A. (2021, May). Digi-spaces and newcomer|immigrant (N|I) youth encounters: Considerations for place|making in educational spaces. Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual Conference. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

    Boffa, A., McFeetors, P. J., & Higgins, M. (accepted). Are STEM games intended to be educative? Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual Conference. Western University, London, ON.

    Boffa, A., Donald, D., Bascuñan, D., & El Sharif, L. (2018, May). What the body remembers: A curriculum of wit(h)nessing. Paper presentation at 2018 Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), Regina, SK.

    Boffa, A. (2017, May). Engagement differently: Connecting with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report. Paper presentation at 2017 Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), Toronto, ON.

    Donald. D., Boffa, A., & Bascuñan, D. (2017, May). Experiencing “settler-Indigenous” logics differently: A re-positioning of difference in curricular spaces through Métissage. Panel presentation at 2017 Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), Toronto, ON.

    Conrad, D., Donald, D., Boffa, A., Underwood, M., & Bighead, R. (2016, May). A youth exchange through arts & technology: Stories of identity, culture, community & place. Panel presentation at 2016 Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), Calgary, AB.

    Boffa, A. (2015, June). Schizophrenizing the Latino/a subjectivity: Towards a pedagogy of transformation. Poster presentation at 2015 Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), Ottawa, ON.

    (Local)

    Jacobs, N. & Boffa, A. (2019, March). Finding the time to breathe some life into education: A provocation of time and death in considerations for pedagogy and being. Round Table presented at the 11th Annual SEGSA/EEGSA Research Showcase. Edmonton, AB.

    Boffa, A. (2018, March). What might a gif do?: Affective becomings on the edge. Paper presented at The Humanities Computing Association (HUCON) Digital Fringe: Humanities on the Edge conference at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

    Boffa, A. (2017, May). Engaging place differently: Affective becomings of a mall parking lot. Paper presented at The Idea of Place conference, 20th Anniversary of the Space and Culture Journal at the University of Alberta. Edmonton, AB.

    Boffa, A. (2014, March). What does a Latin American subjectivity do in the face of popular culture? Poster presented at the 6th Annual University of Alberta Secondary and Elementary Education Graduate Research Showcase. Edmonton, AB.

    Boffa, A. (2013, March). Todos vivimos/We all live. Poster presented at the 5th Annual University of Alberta Secondary and Elementary Graduate Research Showcase. Edmonton, AB.

    Boffa, A. (2012, March). An invitation to dinner: A biographical sketch of Paolo Freire. Paper presented at the 4th Annual University of Alberta Secondary and Elementary Education Graduate Research Showcase. Edmonton, AB.

Awards

  • Research Fellowships

    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship

    Graduate Scholarships

    University of Alberta President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction

    University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship

    Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship–Doctoral Level at University of Alberta

  • Graduate Scholarships

    Camrose Normal School Memorial Scholarship in Education

    Dr. Bruce Bain Memorial Graduate Scholarship

    Travel and Professional Development Awards

    Congress 2018 Graduate Student Travel Award

    Green and Gold Student Leadership and Professional Development Grant

    Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) Professional Development Award