杏吧原创

Cross-appointed with the Department of English Language and Literature.

Research Interests

• Canadian literary and cultural studies
• Settler colonialism
• Neoliberalism
• Feminism and gender studies
• Critical media and policy studies

Current research

I am interested in the relationship between literature and liberal government in the settler colonial context, a conjuncture I first examined in聽Settler Feminism and Race Making in Canada聽(2003). That book describes the contours and contradictions of 19^th聽century liberal feminisms projected onto colonial space. It is also a kind of genealogy of a late 20^th-century genre, the woman鈥檚 survivor story.

I continue to move between the 19^th聽and 20^th/21^st聽centuries, but I have turned to the child as a figure through which settler-colonial futures and pasts are imagined and normative programs of liberal selfhood configured. This line of research has taken me from turn-of-the-century pedagogies of freedom through play (鈥榩laying Indian鈥�), to residential schools, to historical reckoning through the lens of childhood trauma, to the current narratives of 鈥榟uman development鈥� and 鈥榬esilience.鈥櫬�Reconciling Canada: Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress聽(2013), a collection I co-edited, is about the broader discourses and languages of justice-seeking organized around historical injury today.

In another line of research I am zeroing in on the specificities of neoliberalism in settler-colonial contexts, where the logic of 鈥榩rivatization鈥� is inseparable from colonial histories of imposing the private household, and the overlapping questions of how to govern the poor and the Indigenous.

Recent Publications

Books

. University of Toronto Press, 2003.

Edited collections

(co-edited with Pauline Wakeham)聽.聽University of Toronto Press, 2013.

(co-edited with Eva C. Karpinski, Ray Ellenwood, and Ian Sowton)聽聽Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013.

Chapters in books

鈥淣eoliberal Gothic, Settler Social Imaginaries, and the Case for Decolonization on Two Fronts,鈥� in聽Land/Relations: Possibilities of Justice in Canadian Literatures. Eds. Larissa Lai and Smaro Kamboureli. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2022.

鈥淭he Camp, the School, and the Child: Discursive Exchanges and (Neo)liberal Axioms in the Culture of Redress,鈥� in聽Reconciling Canada: Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress.聽Eds. Jennifer Henderson and Pauline Wakeham. University of Toronto Press, 2013.

(with Brian Johnson) 鈥淢addin, Melodrama, and the 鈥楶re-National,鈥欌�� in聽Double-Takes: Intersections Between Canadian Literature and Film.聽Ed. David Jarraway. University of Ottawa Press, 2012.

鈥淪omething not unlike enjoyment鈥�: Gothicism, Catholicism, and Sexuality in聽Kiss of the Fur Queen鈥�听颈苍听Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic.聽Eds. Cynthia Sugars and Gerry Turcotte. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009.

鈥淎t Normal School: Ernest Thomson Seton, L.M. Montgomery, and the New Education.鈥澛�Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature. Ed. 聽聽Cynthia Sugars. University of Ottawa Press, 2004.

鈥淔emme(s) Focale(s): Gail Scott鈥檚聽Main Brides聽and the Post-Identity Narrative.鈥澛犅�Gail Scott: Essays on Her Works. Ed. Lianne Moyes. Guernica Editions, 2002. 72-100. (Reprint.)

Journal articles

鈥淩esidential School Gothic and Red Power: Genre Friction in聽Rhymes for Young Ghouls,鈥� American Indian Culture and Research Journal,聽42.4 (2018) 43-66.

鈥淩esidential Schools and Opinion-Making in the Era of Traumatized Subjects and Taxpayer-Citizens,鈥澛�Journal of Canadian Studies聽49.1 (2015) 5-43.

(co-authored with Keith Denny) 鈥淭he Resilient Child, Human Development, and the 鈥楶ost-democracy,鈥欌�澛�Biosocieties聽10.3 (September 2015) 352-378.

鈥淭ransparency, Spectatorship, Accountability: Indigenous Families in Settler-State 鈥楶ostdemocracies,鈥欌�澛�English Studies in Canada聽38.3 Special issue: Childhood and Its Discontents. Forthcoming, Fall 2013.

鈥淐olonial Conjugality in Susan Frances Harrison.鈥澛�Canadian Literature聽212 (Summer 2012).

(with Pauline Wakeham) 鈥淐olonial Reckoning, National Reconciliation?: First Peoples and the Culture of Redress in Canada,鈥澛�English Studies in Canada,聽 Vol. 34, Issue 4, Spring 2010.

鈥淐an The Third Wave Speak?鈥澛�Atlantis聽32.1 (2007) 68-78.

鈥淥f Bombs, Baking, and Blahniks鈥� (with Lauren Gillingham, Julie Murray, and Janice Schroeder).聽English Studies in Canada,聽Readers鈥� Forum on 鈥淭he State of Feminism.鈥�31.2-3 (June/September 2005) 22-30.

鈥淗ow Janey Canuck Became a Person.鈥澛�Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 13聽(Spring 2005) 73-87.

鈥淔at Shoes鈥� in聽Tessera聽31 special issue on 鈥淔etishism鈥� (Winter 2002) 5-13.

鈥淐ritical Canadiana.鈥澛�American Literary History聽13:4 (Winter 2001). 789-813.

Recent Presentations

鈥� 鈥楿pgrade Life!鈥�: Rupture, Development, and Constellation on the 鈥極blates Lands鈥� ,鈥� Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Triennial Conference: Ruptured Commons, Toronto Metropolitan University, July 11, 2022.

鈥淔eeling Gothic, Feeling Resilient: Dilemmas of Recursivity and Recuperation in Post-Statist Imaginaries,鈥� Gothic in a Time of Contagion, Populism and Racial Injustice: Gothic-Without-Borders Conference of the International Gothic Association, Simon Fraser University, March 11, 2021.

鈥淩esilience, Indigeneity, and Human Capital as a Nexus of Neoliberal Governmentality,鈥澛燙anadian Political Science Association, 鈥淩esilience, Recognition, Vulnerability, Apology: Logics and Politics of Care in Neoliberal Canada鈥� panel, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of British Columbia, May 2019.

鈥淭owards a Genealogy of the Settler Public/Private: Land, Labour, and the 19th Century Colonization Company.鈥� Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Regina, May 28, 2018.

鈥淣eoliberal Gothic and Settler Social Imaginaries.鈥� Cultures of Capitalism, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference, Massey University, Wellington. December 6, 2017.

鈥淕enre and the Politics of Public Memory:聽Rhymes for Young Ghouls聽and聽Residential School Gothic.鈥� Mikinaakominis/Transcanadas Conference. University of Toronto. May 26, 2017.

鈥淩eframing Residential School Gothic.鈥� Maladies of the Soul, Emotion, Affect Conference, Canadian Literature Centre, University of Alberta/Canadian Studies Centre, University of Innsbruck. Banff, Alberta, September 25, 2016.

鈥淕ender and Liberal Government in聽The Manor House of De Villerai.鈥澛�Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Calgary, May 28, 2016.

鈥淣eoliberal Memorialization and Indigenous Resurgence.鈥澛� Research Works lecture series.聽 杏吧原创 University.聽 October 9, 2015.

鈥淪ettler Sense and Indigenous Resurgence.鈥澛� Keynote lecture presented to the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures and the Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies.聽 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, May 30, 2015.

鈥淢elodrama, Statistics: Indigenous Families in Settler-State 鈥楶ost-Democracies.鈥欌�� Crossroads in Cultural Studies. Universit茅 de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. Paris, July 5, 2012.

鈥凌别补诲颈苍驳听Crackpot聽Today.鈥� Association of Canadian and Quebecois Literatures, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo. May 27, 2012.

鈥淔eeling Better(ment):聽Third World Canada聽and Change鈥檚 Private Sphere.鈥� Canadian Cultural Studies Association meetings, McGill University, Montreal. Nov. 4, 2011.

鈥淚ndigenous Neoliberation in Aotearoa and Canada.鈥� Post/Colonial (Re)Constructions of Indigenous Parenthood and Family Life,聽 Canadian Anthropology Society meetings, St. Thomas University, Fredericton. May 12, 2011.

(co-presented with Keith Denny) 鈥淐hildhood resilience, human development, and politics as police.鈥� Mapping the Landscapes of Childhood conference. Lethbridge, Alberta. May 6, 2011.

鈥淕enre and Affect in Settler-State Discourses of Reconciliation.鈥� Presented at Living Together Differently workshop, meeting of the Tauhara Research Network. Taupo, New Zealand. February 23, 2011.

鈥淐omparative Canadian Redress: Reading Tropes of Confinement and Childhood in Two Movements for Reparations.鈥� Narrating the Nation panel, Canadian Law and Society Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal, June 2, 2010.

PhD supervisions:

Shaun Stevenson, 鈥淗ydrosocial Relations and the Ethics of Indigenous Land Claims鈥�

Amy Chamberlin, 鈥淪torying Living Memories about Indian Day Schools: Transforming Reconciliation鈥�

Miranda Lebeil, 鈥淭he Representation of Indigenous Children and Families in Provincial Child Death Inquiries鈥�