Terri Tomsky

Chair Dr. Terri Tomsky - Department of English and Film Studies

Terri Tomsky

Terri Tomsky is an Associate Professor of English in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta and currently the Chair of the Wirth Academic Advisory Board. Her research focuses on the literature of human rights and cultural memory in postcolonial and postsocialist spaces. She is co-editor of Negative Cosmopolitanism: Cultures and Politics of World Citizenship after Globalization and is presently finishing a book on the cultural archive of the Guantánamo military complex. She has published essays on literary representations of migration detention centres, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav wars, the Indian Partition, neo-imperialisms, and the Global War on Terror.

Photo credit: Ella Dreyfus

Email: tomsky@ualberta.ca

Website: https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/tomsky