The Pembroke Center-housed differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies has welcomed a full-time staff member to the editorial team. Scott Jackshaw AM’22 PhD’25 will serve as managing editor, having previously held a variety of positions at the journal. 

In 2023, Jackshaw designed and launched the journal's online forum for critical prose, and since 2024, they have co-organized the journal's Limits of Legibility colloquia. These projects have expanded differences’ reach, and made the addition of a full-time staff member all the more necessary. Since 2000, Senior Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies (GNSS), Director of the GNSS Graduate Certificate Program, and differences Editor Denise Davis has dedicated a significant portion of her workweek to running the differences editorial office, a lean operation that has relied on the essential contributions of part-time graduate student assistant editors. As Davis focuses on her work with the GNSS program, she will remain on the journal's masthead as a coeditor alongside Elizabeth Weed, Ellen Rooney, and Elizabeth A. Wilson. Jackshaw will take on key managerial responsibilities that will allow differences and its online forum to foster and publish work from a broadening range of scholars. Graduate student fellows, including Interdisciplinary Opportunities Fellows, will continue to provide editorial support.

Jackshaw recently completed their doctorate in English under the direction of Kevin Quashie, Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in English. They received their B.A. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Alberta. Their research interests include Black studies, feminist and queer theory, deconstruction, theology, performance studies, and contemporary poetry. They look forward to developing the journal's online forum and steering a lineup of special issues that ranges from lyric poetry to reproductive politics. Jackshaw is also a poet and their collection, Stigmata, is forthcoming from Talonbooks this year.