Ummni Khan, Carleton University

Research

Read how they describe their research on their Carleton University profile.

Latest papers

5 The Kinky Brat: Speak Pleasure to Power
New York University Press eBooks · 2024 · first author
Fifty Shades of a Moral Panic!
2022 · first author
A guilty pleasure: The legal, social scientific and feminist verdict against rap
Theoretical Criminology · 2021 · first author

All 43 publications

Latest funding

Canada 150: Visions for Canada, 2042
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$25,000
Sex Buyer Beware: Constructions and Representation of Sex Trade Clients and their Impact on Law
SSHRC · 2013 · Principal investigator
$62,494
Sex buyers in the spotlight: the emergence of a new sexual category and its influence on law
SSHRC · 2011 · Principal investigator
$16,052

All 3 grants and awards

43 publications.

01

5 The Kinky Brat: Speak Pleasure to Power

Ummni Khan

New York University Press eBooks20242 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479807635.003.0008

02

Fifty Shades of a Moral Panic!

Ummni Khan

20221 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-06485-2_9

03

A guilty pleasure: The legal, social scientific and feminist verdict against rap

Ummni Khan

Theoretical Criminology202118 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1177/13624806211028274

04

Kinky identity and practice in relation to the law

Ummni Khan

Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks20205 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.4337/9781788111157.00036

05

Homosexuality and Prostitution: A Tale of Two Deviancies

Ummni Khan

University of Toronto Law Journal20204 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.3138/utlj.2019-0082

06

10. Antiprostitution Feminism and the Surveillance of Sex Industry Clients

Ummni Khan

2020First author

DOI: 10.1515/9780822375463-013

07

Rape as Play: Yellow Peril Panic and a Defence of Fantasy

Ummni Khan, Jean Ketterling

20194 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1163/9789004401716_016

08

Chester Brown and the Queerness of Johns

Ummni Khan

Critical Analysis of Law20192 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.33137/cal.v6i1.32563

09

Torn: A Social Media Drama over the Aziz Ansari Scandal

Rena Bivens, Ummni Khan

Ada A Journal of Gender New Media and Technology20191 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.5399/uo/ada.2019.15.4

10

Staging the Trials of Modernism: Testimony and the British Modern Literary Consciousness

Ummni Khan

Law & Literature2019First author

DOI: 10.1080/1535685x.2019.1582842

Canada 150: Visions for Canada, 2042

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Connection Grants

Keywords: Canada; Canada 150; future; public policy; citizenship; economy; governance; global affairs; indigenous-canada relations; environment; care; communications; immigration; justice; transportation; infrastructure

$25,000

Sex Buyer Beware: Constructions and Representation of Sex Trade Clients and their Impact on Law

Principal investigatorSSHRC2013

Principal investigators: Khan, Ummni

$62,494

Sex buyers in the spotlight: the emergence of a new sexual category and its influence on law

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Khan, Ummni

Keywords: sex work; male clients; legal regulation of prostitution; charter challenge; sexual identity; gender; criminalization; sexology; social; behavioural and medical science; media studies; cinematic representation; discourse analysis; deconstruction

$16,052

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Rena Bivens

School of Journalism and Communication

1 shared papers, latest 2019

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Khan, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "5 The Kinky Brat: Speak Pleasure to Power" (2024), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]