Rosie Long Decter

Thesis title: Hysterical: Comedy, Comebacks and #metoo

Rosie Long Decter is a Media Studies graduate from Concordia University, Department of Communications. She holds a BA from McGill University in Joint Honours Cultural Studies and Political Science, where she received the Dean of Arts Convocation Prize and the Lionel Shapiro Award for Creative Writing. She has five years of experience working in alternative and independent media and is currently the music critic at Maisonneuve and a contributing editor at Reader’s Digest Canada. Her research interests include taste formations, digital media labour practices, queer and feminist comedy, and #metoo.

Publications
Long Decter, Rosie (2017). “Empowerment and Entrapment in Séan O’Casey’s Tenement House.” The Channel: The McGill University Department of English Undergraduate Journal. Vol. 10, 2017, pp. 55-67.

Creative Work

• Comforter (2019). Bodywash, debut LP, released via Luminelle Recordings. Performer and songwriter.
• Night Cows (2019-2021). Dir. Katey Wattam, one-woman theatrical piece. Composer and dramaturge.
• Goodnight Goodnight (2020). Dir. Mackenzie Reid Rostad, mid-length feature film. Composer.