About

My name is Ben­jamin Woo. I live in Van­cou­ver, BC, Canada, with my part­ner, Lau­rena Nash, and this is my website.

I am cur­rently work­ing on a PhD dis­ser­ta­tion on nerd cul­ture in the School of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, SFU. I have an MA Com­mu­ni­ca­tion (SFU) and a BAH Film Stud­ies & Soci­ol­ogy (Queen’s). I’m inter­ested in the forms of com­mu­nity gen­er­ated by cul­tural prac­tices and the ways that these prac­tices are cul­ti­vated, sus­tained, and jeop­ar­dized in the con­text of a con­sumer soci­ety. I’m also on Academia.edu, where I try to main­tain an archive of my pub­li­ca­tions and talks.

I am a life-long comic-book enthu­si­ast. I have pub­lished aca­d­e­mic essays and arti­cles on the sub­ject and occa­sion­ally take a stab at pro­duc­ing comics myself. I have an affil­i­a­tion with the mostly Vancouver-based comics col­lec­tive, The Crown Com­mis­sion. I have had sto­ries pub­lished in The SPX 2004 Anthol­ogy and New Reli­able Press’s You Ain’t No Dancer vol. 2, and am a semi-regular attendee at the Vanou­ver Comic Jams.

At home, I enjoy cook­ing and wist­fully read­ing menswear blogs. I’m try­ing to become craftier and I’ll some­times post the results of my projects here.