Wiley Sharp

PhD Candidate (she/her)

Campus

Fields of Study

Areas of Interest

Feminist geography, urban history, infrastructure, queer & trans studies

Biography

Wiley Sharp is a feminist geographer studying the urban histories of Toronto’s Bloor Viaduct. Her dissertation research explores the racialized and gendered production of space in the settler-colonial metropole through the locus of infrastructure. She is a co-founder of GEOZONe, an archive of radical zines and print ephemera.

Supervisor

Natalie Oswin

Cohort

2023-2024

Publications

Wiley Sharp. 2025. Wild places: Interstices of queer and trans* possibility in suburban Toronto. Social and Cultural Geography 26 (7): 803–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2025.2476508.

Wiley Sharp, Sarah Fogel, Eden Kinkaid, & Nick Koenig. 2025. Resisting gender fascism. The Geographical Journal: e70011. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70011.

Queering Feminist Geography Collective, et al. “Queering feminist geography I: queer/trans inclusion, exclusion, and belonging.” Gender, Place, & Culture 32 (8): 1290–1301. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2025.2513079.

Education

MA Geography, York University, 2023
BA Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 2021