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CURRICULUM
VITAE
Academic History
| 1993: |
Ph.D., Stanford University |
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Dissertation: New National Narratives
for a New World Order: ContemporaryPostcolonial Fiction from Canada
and the North of Ireland. Supervisor: Regenia Gagnier |
| 1988: |
B.A. (Honors), University of Alberta |
Teaching and Research Interests
| Postcolonial fiction
and theory; feminist studies; cultural studies; queer theory;
contemporary African, Canadian and Northern Irish literature;
the Troubles |
Major Awards
| 1999 |
Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate
Teaching |
| 1999 |
Faculty of Arts Teaching Award
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| 1996-99 |
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
of Canada Research Grant |
| 1993-94 |
Harriet Winspear-Sheila Watson Research Fellowship |
| 1988-92 |
Stanford University Fellowship |
| 1988 |
Rutherford Memorial Gold Medal in English |
Representative Publications
- "Multiculturalism: Pied Piper of Nationalism (And Joy Kogawa's
Ambivalent Antiphony)." Ariel, forthcoming
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- "The Nervous Collusions of Nation and Gender: Tsitsi Dangarembga's
Challenge to Fanon." Critical Perspectives on Tsitsi Dangarembga,
ed. Jeannette Treiber and Elizabeth Willey. Africa World Press,
2002. 22 ms pp
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- "Daphne Marlatt's Ana Historic: Queering the Postcolonial
Nation." Ariel 30.2 (April 1999): 161-175.
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- "The Limits of Sisterhood." In Search of April Raintree:
Critical Edition. Ed. Cheryl Suzack and Catherine Lennox.
Winnipeg: Peguis Press, 1999. 323-337.
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- "Between Mater and Matter:
Radical Novels by Republican Women." Reclaiming Gender:
Transgressive Identities in Modern Ireland. Ed. Marilyn
Cohen and Nancy Curtin. New York: St Martin’s Press,
1999.
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- "Homosexuality in Zimbabwe."
Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures.
Ed. George Haggerty. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.
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- "Gendered Troubles: Refiguring
‘Woman’ in Northern Ireland." Genders
19 (1994): 198-222.
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- "Canadian Women of Colour:
Marlene Nourbese Philip, Beatrice Culleton and Joy Kogawa
Fight Their Way Home." Canadian Women Writing Fiction.
Ed. Mickey Pearlman. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi,
1993. 142-154.
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Editorial
Boards
Work
in Progress
- Recuperative Terror: Stereotypes of the Irish Terrorist
(book manuscript).
- "Where's Postcolonialism's Feminism?" Co-written with Nima
Naghibi and Cheryl Suzack.
- "Marauding Lesbians." Co-written with Maureen Engel. Invited
contribution to Aberrant Women. Ed. Carol Osborne.
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Teaching
Experience
| Junior Courses |
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Critical Thinking/Critical Writing;
English for Engineers |
| Senior Undergraduate Courses |
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Introduction to Literary Theory;
Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures;
Introduction to Contemporary African Literatures |
| Fourth-year Seminars |
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Millennial L.A.; Postcolonial
Feminisms; Nationalisms/Feminisms/Postcolonialisms; Postcolonialism/Postmodernism;
Contemporary Irish Women's Literature |
| Honors Tutorials/Directed Readings |
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Postcolonial Women Writers; Postcolonial Canadian
Women Writers; Dionne Brand; Contemporary Irish Women Writers;
Lesbians of Color; Food in Postcolonial Writing; South Asian Canadian
Writing. |
| Graduate Seminars |
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North/South Flashpoints; Recuperative
Terror; Sex and Culture (module-style seminar); Mobilizing
Postcolonial Feminisms; Colonial/Postcolonial Stereotypes (module-style
seminar); Theory of Pedagogy (7-week
proseminar) |
| Teaching at Stanford University |
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Instructor, Innovative Academic Courses: Feminist
Cultural Studies; TA: African American Writers, 1970 to the Present;
Instructor, Modern Thought and Literature: Introduction to Cultural
Studies; Instructor, Innovative Academic Courses: Contemporary
Canadian Women Writers; Instructor, Freshman English. |
Completed Graduate Supervision
| 2001 |
- Linda Tucker, Ph.D. (English) Lockstep and Dance: Containment
and Resistance in African American Men's Lives and Representations
of Them (supervisor)
- Myrl Coulter, M.A. (English) "Postcolonial Rape Narratives"
(M.A. Project Reader)
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| 2000 |
- Bill Kerr, Ph.D. (English) Brian Friel (committee)
- Gae Mackwood, Ph.D. (Education) Poststructuralist Pedagogies
(committee)
- Heather Smyth, Ph.D. (English) Creolization and Coalition
in Caribbean Feminist Cultural Production (committee)
- Sherryl Vint, Ph.D. (English) Problematic Selves and
Unexpected Others: Technology, Subjectivity, Science Fiction
(committee)
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| 1999 |
- Guy Beauregard, Ph.D. (English) Asian Canadian Literature
(committee)
- Lisa Grekul, M.A. (Creative Writing) Sing for Me, Kalyna!
(committee)
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| 1998 |
- Jerry White, M.A. (Film Studies) Irish National Self
in the Films of Joe Comerford and Thaddeus O'Sullivan
(committee)
- Margaret McCutcheon, M.A. (English) Irish Women Write
1798 (committee)
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| 1996 |
- Len Falkenstein, Ph.D. (English) Renovating the Kitchen:
Nation and Nationalism in Irish Drama, 1959-1993 (committee)
- Apollo Amoko, M.A. (Drama) Casting Aside Colonial Occupation:
British Imperial History and Feminist (Re)visions in Cloud
Nine and Our Country's Good
(committee)
- Mari Sasano, M.A. (English) "Words Like Buckshot: Hiromi
Goto" (M.A. Project Reader)
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| 1995 |
- Jane Haslett, M.A. (English) Fabulous Bodies: The Fiction
of Jeanette Winterson (supervisor)
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Ongoing Graduate Supervision
- Aimée Morrison, Ph.D. (English) Becoming the Universal
Machine: Creating the Personal Computer in 1980s Literary
and Popular Culture
- Shazia Rahman, Ph.D. (English) South Asian Women's Writing
and Commodification
- Nicole Shukin, Ph.D. (English) Imagining Posthuman Communities
- Maisaa Youssef, Ph.D. (English) Collective Violence,
Collective Identities
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Ongoing Graduate Committees
- Mridula Chakraborty, Ph.D. (English) Women of Colour
Feminisms
- Lily Cho, Ph.D. (English) Dim Sum Diasporas: a Cultural
Materialist Analysis of Chinese Canadian Restaurants
- Sarah Cooke, M.A. (English) Multiculturalism and Personal
Identity
- Judy Davidson, Ph.D. (Phys. Ed.) The Gay Games and Cultural
Events: A Discourse Analysis
- Michael Epp, Ph.D. (English) Coining Humor: The Production
of Postbellum Humor
- Duncan Greenlaw, Ph.D. (English) Mourning and Melancholy
in Northern Ireland
- Michèle Gunderson, Ph.D. (English) Locating Bodies in
Contemporary Canadian Women's Autobiographies: Contexts, Identities,
Agency
- Cathy Van Ingen, Ph.D. (Phys. Ed.) Reading Resistance
as Spatial Practice: The Real-and-Imagined Spaces of the Toronto
Front Runners
- Pauline Wakeham, Ph.D. (English) Taxidermy and Cultural
Meanings
- Jerry White, Ph.D. (Film Studies) The Development of
a National Cinema in Quebec and Ireland after 1960
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Academic Service
| Department: |
GRA/GTA Supervisor
Undergraduate Programs Advisor
Curriculum Committee
Budget & Program Analysis Committee
Numerous hiring committees |
| Faculty of Arts: |
Teaching Committee (Chair)
Ad Hoc Committee on International Studies
Honors Committee
Academic Appeals Committee
Student Orientation Committee |
| University: |
University Teaching Awards Committee
General Faculties Executive Council
University Teaching Services Peer Consultation Program
Faculty Representative: Association of Academic Staff
Women's Studies Chair Selection Committee |
| Public Service: |
In-school mentor, 1999-2002 |
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