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Assistant Professor
Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Keywords: Comparative Indigenous literary criticism in Canada and Québec; francophone Indigenous literature; environmental ethics and activism in Indigenous film and literature; Indigenous filmmaking and collaborative research methodologies across the Americas; theories of events and Indigenous-settler relationships.
Keywords: contemporary Canadian theatre and performance; audiences as collaborators; participatory, documentary, and immersive theatre; site-specific performance.
Keywords: Indigenous Studies, Cultural Revitalization and Social Change, Critical Indigenous Theory, Indigenous and State Relations, Critical Prison Studies, Transracial Adoption, Oral History.
Other Affiliations: Languages, Literature and Cultures
keywords: the politics of health, sport, fitness, and the body; queer, feminist, and critical race studies; environmental justice; food studies; outdoor culture
Keywords: environmental politics, governance, and regulation; ecological economics; green industrial policy; trade and investment agreements; corporate power and accountability.
Keywords: comics and sequential art, feminism, queer theory, reproductive justice, theatre and performance, science fiction, fantasy, disability studies, art activism
Keywords: transformative social movements; cultures of resistance and dissent in the larger Middle East/North Africa (MENA) and Mediterranean regions; politics of alliance across generation, gender or sexual identity, religion, ethnicity, class; feminist ethnography; community-based research.
Keywords: forced migration and involuntary displacement; necropolitics; bio-politics of citizenship; violence, human rights, and humanitarian intervention; postcolonial literatures; literary theory (Marxism, post-structuralism, feminism and psychoanalysis); critical race theories and multiculturalism; Adorno and the Frankfurt School; global cinema; race, gender and sexuality studies.
Keywords: visual and popular cultures; genre cinemas; horror films & monster movies; feminist-queer-trans histories of Classical Hollywood; fan-based reading practices; superhero comics; histories of eugenic medicine and criminality; curricular design and pedagogical strategies.
Keywords: historic and contemporary Indigenous arts of North America; curatorial and museum studies; colonialism and visual cultures; marketing of culture; arts of the Arctic; Inuit art.
Keywords: playwriting, dramaturgy, multi-disciplinary performance; dance and physical theatre; African diaspora and mixed-race studies; Afrofuturism; Jewish, queer, and feminist studies; research creation.
Keywords: acting, directing, and playwriting; Canadian theatre history; Shakespeare.
Keywords: North Indian classical dance; classical and vernacular musics and dance; colonialism and postcolonialism; gender; musical and cultural exchange; ethnography; South Asia.
Keywords: contemporary literature; ecocriticism and eco-cultural studies; climate collapse and environmental disaster; permaculture, biodynamics, and agroecology; technophilia and technophobia; risk theory; animals and animality.
Keywords: African Studies, particularly the Horn of Africa; colonialism, decolonization, revolutions, and nationalist movements; peace, conflict and security studies; Eritrea, Somalia, East Timor; qualitative methods.
Keywords: modernisms and avant-garde arts; comic strips and graphic novels; science fiction, crime, and other pulp genres; new and digital media; reading, empathy, and affect; ecocriticism and animal studies.
Keywords: contemporary global Sufism and Islam in North America and South Asia (Sri Lanka); migrant and diaspora literatures, religions and popular culture; sacred spaces, ritual, and memory; gender and religious practice.
Keywords: Greek and Roman art and archaeology; field archaeology; social status of artisans and artists; Ancient Greek colonies; classical tradition in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to present.