Dr. Amélie Keyser-Verreault 何梅俐

Postdoctoral Fellow, European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT)

Academic Career

• 2022 Postdoc Fellow, Global Asia Research Center, National Taiwan University
• 2021Postdoc Fellow, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University
• 2020-2021 Postdoc Fellow, Department of Sexology, Université du Québec à Montréal
• 2018 PhD in Anthropology, Université Laval (Mention of excellence for the best thesis in anthropology for the 2018-2019 academic year, Faculty of Social Sciences)
• 2014, Visiting Fellow, Department of Political Sciences, National Taiwan University
• 2011 M.A. in Anthropology
• 2010, Visiting Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
• 2009 B.A. in Anthropology

Research Focus

Dr. Keyser-Verreault research body politics and gender with a focus on beauty politics, maternity, aging and resistance in East Asia. She also has a deep interest in qualitative art-based, decolonial and intersectional methodologies. At Tübingen University, she is working on the BMBF Taiwan als Pionier research project. Dr. Keyser-Verreault conducts several years of field work in Taiwan.

Fields of specialization: Taiwanese Studies; political anthropology of the body; gender inequalities; sexualities; fat studies; beauty studies; aging; resistance; intersectionality and postcolonial feminist approaches and methodologies; art-based methodologies; cultural studies; Foucauldian theory; neoliberalism.

Major Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Keyser-Verreault, A. (2024). Gender, neoliberal rationality, and anti-aspirational temporality: Women’s resistance to the quest for beauty in Taiwan. Asian Anthropology (Impact Factor 1.06)

Keyser-Verreault, A. (2023). Embodied ambivalence: Taiwanese fat women’s negotiation and subversion of their hyper(in)visibility. Journal of Gender Studies (Impact Factors 2.53). https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2191314  

Keyser-Verreault, A., & Rail, G. (2023). Gender, beauty and the future of neoliberalism: Aesthetic labour and women’s (anti)aspirationalism in Taiwan. Chinese Sociological Review (Impact Factors 3.7) https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2023.2189577

Wallach, I., Keyser-Verreault, A., Brisson-Guérin, M., Beauchamps, J., Malta, S., Durivage, P., and Sussman, T., (Accepted). “It is dead” or “It is the last thing to die”: The influence of palliative care professionals’ definition of sexual expression on their communication around sexual expression with older adults with an end-of-life prognosis. The Gerontologist (Impact Factor 5.27).

Keyser-Verreault, A. (2022). “Your fatty bum is really ugly!” Fat-shaming and beauty-related tensions in contemporary Taiwanese families. Journal of Family Studies (Impact Factor 2.072).

Keyser-Verreault, A. (2022). On ne naît pas belle, on le devient: devoir maternel et formation transindividuelle de l’entrepreneure esthétique à Taiwan (One is not born beautiful, one becomes beautiful: Motherly duty and transindividual transformation of the esthetic entrepreneur in Taiwan). Famille, Enfance, Génération. (In French)

Keyser-Verreault, A. (2022). The continuum of regaining one’s body: Childbirth and reproductive choice under beauty pressure in Taiwan. European Journal of Cultural Studies (Impact Factor 1.66). https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494221104145

Kriger, D., Keyser-Verreault, A., Joseph, J. & Peers, D. (2022). The Operationalizing Intersectionality Framework. Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology (Impact Factor 1.27). Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1123/jcsp.2021-0069.

Keyser-Verreault, A. (2022). Toward a non-individualistic analysis of neoliberalism: The stay-fit maternity trend in Taiwan. Ethnography (Impact Factor 1.29) https://doi.org/10.1177%2F14661381211054027

Kerr, G., Demers, G., Pegoraro, A., Kriger, D., & Keyser-Verreault, A. (2021). The Canadian Gender+ Equity in Sport Research Hub: One step closer to achieving gender equity in sport by 2035. Canadian Journal for Women in Coaching, 21(1): pp. 10. https://coach.ca/sites/default/files/2021-01/CJWC_%20January2021-en.pdf

Keyser-Verreault, A. (2020). “I want to look as if I am my child’s big sister”: Self-satisfaction and the Yummy Mummy in Taiwan. Feminism and Psychology, 31: 4, 483-501 (Impact Factor 3.37) https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353520973572

Keyser-Verreault, A. (何梅俐) (2018). 「恢復自信美體」：美學經營主義下的母性主體與懷孕生產, (Recovering a self-confident body: Pregnancy and childbirth under aesthetic entrepreneurship). Journal of Women’s and Gender Studies (女學學誌), 43(2): 37–88. (In Chinese)

Keyser-Verreault, A. (何梅俐) (2018). 追求美貌與變成母親的兩難:以高文憑的都會女性為例 (Quest for beauty and becoming a mother: A painful paradox for highly educated urban Taiwanese women). Taiwan Journal of Anthropology (台灣人類學刊), 16(1): 97–158. (In Chinese)

Books

Keyser-Verreault, A. (in preparation). From the quest for beauty to fat-shaming: Gender, body and the politics of desirability in contemporary Taiwan.

Keyser-Verreault, A., & Pasche-Guignard, F. (Eds) (2023), Maternités académiques et pandémie - Perspectives francophones internationales. Presses de l’Université du Québec. (In French) https://www.puq.ca/catalogue/livres/maternites-academiques-pandemie-4263.html

Keyser-Verreault, A., St-Pierre, M., et Brière, S. (2023). Equity, diversity and inclusion in sports organizations. University of British Columbia Press.

Brière, S., Auclair, I., Keyser-Verreault, A., Laplanche, L., Pulido, B., Savard, B., St-George, J. et Stockledd, A. (2022). Biais inconscients et comportements inclusifs dans les organisations, Presses de l’Université Laval.

Special Issue Editing

Demers, G., Keyser-Verreault, A., & St-Pierre, M. (Eds) (Spring 2023). Gender, feminisms and sports. Recherches féministes, 35(2). (In French)

Keyser-Verreault, A. & Mercier, É. (Eds). (2022). Bodies, aesthetic and politics. Recherches féministes, 34(1). (In French) https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/rf/2021-v34-n1-rf06678/

Book chapters

Keyser-Verreault, A. (forthcoming 2024). Taiwan’s LGBT+ movement. In Schubert, G. (eds) Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan, 2nd edition, London. Routledge.

Keyser-Verreault, A. (2023). Gender, self-transformation, and digital performance: Female Taiwanese international students’ mediated communication with their parents. In B. Zani and I. Cheng (Eds.), Performing in two worlds: Intimacy, entrepreneurship and activism of East Asian migrants online and offline. Anthem Press.

Keyser-Verreault, A. (2023). Autoethnographie d’une parentalité académique queer inscrite dans des trajectoires de migrations en temps de pandémie. In Keyser-Verreault, A., & Pasche-Guignard, F. (Eds) (2023), Maternités académiques et pandémie - Perspectives francophones internationales. Presses de l’Université du Québec. (In French) https://www.puq.ca/catalogue/livres/maternites-academiques-pandemie-4263.html

Keyser-Verreault, A. (2023). Maternité et grand-maternité en période de pandémie : solidarité intergénérationnelle, temps, espace et réseaux. In Keyser-Verreault, A., & Pasche-Guignard, F. (Eds) (2023), Maternités académiques et pandémie - Perspectives francophones internationales. Presses de l’Université du Québec. (In French) https://www.puq.ca/catalogue/livres/maternites-academiques-pandemie-4263.html

Pasche Guignard, F. & Keyser-Verreault, A. (2023). Remarques conclusives. In Keyser-Verreault, A., & Pasche-Guignard, F. (Eds) (2023), Maternités académiques et pandémie - Perspectives francophones internationales. Presses de l’Université du Québec. (In French) https://www.puq.ca/catalogue/livres/maternites-academiques-pandemie-4263.html

Pasche Guignard, F. & Keyser-Verreault, A. (forthcoming 2023). Introduction. In Keyser-Verreault, A., & Pasche-Guignard, F. (Eds) (2023), Maternités académiques et pandémie - Perspectives francophones internationales. Presses de l’Université du Québec. (In French) https://www.puq.ca/catalogue/livres/maternites-academiques-pandemie-4263.html

Keyser-Verreault, A., (forthcoming 2023), The futurality of aesthetic labour: Interpersonal and time-related dimensions in Taiwanese women’s quest for beauty during the maternity. In Dalmia, K., Kukuczka, A. & Grisard, D. (Eds), The life of beauty – Locations, experiences, methodologies. Zurich: Seismo Publishing.

Keyser-Verreault, A. & Kriger, D., (forthcoming 2023). “I know my body way better with the utilization of this app”: The politics of tracking athletes’ menstrual cycles and sport performance. In Scala, F., & Smith, L. (Eds), Northern blood: The politics of menstruation in Canada. McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Kriger, D., & Keyser-Verreault, A. (2022). Chapter 4: What is Gender?. In Kerr, G. (Ed.), Gender-based violence in children’s sport (pp.24-30), London: Routledge.

Auclair, I., St-George, J., Brière, S. & Keyser Verreault, A. (2022). Partie 1 : Les biais inconscients dans un contexte d’équité, de diversité et d’inclusion. In Brière, S., Auclair, I., Keyser-Verreault, A., Laplanche, L., Pulido, B., Savard, B., St-George, J. & Stockledd, A., (Eds.), Biais inconscients et comportements inclusifs dans les organisations, Presses de l’Université Laval.

Keyser-Verreault, A. (2021). Eating as a way of performing gender: Intersection of food, gender and human capital in Taiwan. In Rhee, J., Nagayama, C. & Li, E. (Eds), Gender and food in contemporary global East Asia (pp. 183-202). Washington: Lexington Books.

Fournier, P.-S., Brière, S., Pellerin, A. & Keyser-Verreault, A. (2019). Women’s retention and progression in traditional male employment sector: What can we learn from the Inspectors’ case? In Brière, S. (Ed.), Women in traditional male employment sector (pp. 211–228). Quebec: Presses de l’Université Laval. (In French)