postdocs
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Beth Capper is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Departments of English & Film Studies and Women's & Gender Studies at the University of Alberta from 2019-2021. She received her Ph.D. in Modern Culture & Media from Brown University in 2019. Her research is broadly concerned with the history and theory of feminist media and performance in relation to questions of labour, social movements, and the politics of aesthetics. Beth's writing has been published in Art Journal, Media Fields, Third Text, and GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. She is assistant editor (with Rebecca Schneider) of a consortium issue of TDR: The Drama Review on "Performance and Reproduction" and co-editor of a forthcoming (2021) special dossier on "The Futures of Marxism and Film & Media Studies" for Jump Cut. Beth's book project, Uncommon Reproductions: Feminism, Cinema, and the Crises of Capitalism, advances a revisionary history of labor and anti-capitalist critique in post-1970s U.S. cinema through an attention to the racial politics of social reproduction. |
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Walter Gordon is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Public Energy Humanities at TECS. His research is concerned with African American literature, energy, and the environment, particularly in relation to questions of labor. He is currently working on two projects: a digital, interactive adaptation of Shirley Graham’s 1941 play Dust to Earth, and a monograph entitled “Oh, Awful Power”: Energy and Modernity in African American Literature, which tracks the interlinked cultural histories of King Coal and Jim Crow.
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Max Karpinski holds a PhD from the University of Toronto's English Department. His dissertation tracked the ways contemporary poets in Canada compost the pastoral mode in order to compose with its forms and thematics. In January 2020, he joined the University of Alberta's English and Film Studies Department as a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow. At UAlberta, he is beginning work on a second project, tentatively titled Matters of Language, which posits a "poetics of appropriation" as an experimental, formal tactic that addresses the entanglements of settler-colonialism and ecological degradation. His critical work has appeared or is forthcoming in Canadian Literature as well as an edited collection of essays published by Guernica Editions. |
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Emma McKenna is a Killam Honorary postdoctoral fellow in English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, and a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in Criminology at the University of Ottawa. She received her PhD in English and Cultural Studies and McMaster University, and her MA in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is currently working on research examining the overlaps and tensions between second wave anti-violence feminisms and the sex workers’ rights movement in Canada. Her work can be found in Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy; Women: A Cultural Review; Atlantis: Journal of Gender, Culture, and Social Justice; Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies; and Journal of Gender Studies. She is also the author of the poetry collection Chenille or Silk. |
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Chelsea Miya is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the SpokenWeb research team at the University of Alberta. Her research and teaching interests include critical code studies, nineteenth-century American literature, and the digital humanities. She has held research positions with the Kule Research Institute (Kias), the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC), and the Orlando Project. She co-edited the anthology Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene (Open Book Publishers 2021), and her article “Student-Driven Digital Learning: A Call to Action” appears in People, Practice, Power: Digital Humanities outside the Center (MIT Press 2021). email: cmiya@ualberta.ca |
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Kimberly Skye Richards is a Public Energy Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the Transition in Energy, Culture, and Society Network. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California-Berkeley where her research addressed performance and petro-imperialism on oil frontiers. She is currently creating a multi-modal toolkit for incentivizing and supporting the creation of "sustainable tools" for art activism about energy transition. Kim recently co-edited an issue of Canadian Theatre Review on “Extractivism and Performance.” Her writing appears in TDR: The Drama Review, Theatre Journal, Theatre Research in Canada, and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, and several edited collections. |
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Christina Turner is an honorary Grant Notley Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow in English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta and a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in English, Theatre, Film and Media at the University of Manitoba. Jointly supervised by Profs. Keavy Martin and Warren Cariou, Christina's postdoctoral research examines works of Anishinaabeg, Cree, and Metis speculative fiction as crucial sites for remaining core principles of Indigenous law. Christina's project builds on her doctoral research, which she completed at the University of Toronto, and which analyzed how contemporary works of Indigenous literature interrogate the legal recognition of Indigenous rights in Canada's 1982 Constitution Act. She is the co-editor of Everything on the Line, an essay collection about progressive social movements in recent Canadian history (Between the Lines Press, 2021) and has essays published and forthcoming in Canadian Literature, Law and Literature, Studies in American Indian Literature, and The Cambridge Companion to 20th Century Literature and Politics. Christina is a white settler of English and Norwegian heritage who was born in Toronto, where she currently lives with her husband and her (small but mighty) collection of tomato plants. |
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