BA (Hons) (Toronto), MA, PhD (Cornell)
Assistant Professor
Specialization:
Twentieth- and twenty-first century British literature; postcolonial and indigenous literatures; modernism(s); Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand literatures; science, fantasy, and speculative fiction; gender studies; critical race studies; cultural studies.
Select Publications:
I work at the intersection of modernist and postcolonial literary studies. The book I am currently writing examines twentieth-century projects of national revision that turn on the management of human sexual and reproductive practices. What does it mean to conceive of the nation in reproductive terms? What, in particular, does the centrality of reproduction to narratives of national degeneration and redemption tell us about how (erstwhile) colonizing states like Australia,
Britain, and New Zealand experience and fashion their postcolonial nationhood?
I am also conducting research for a second book that takes a postcolonial approach to science and fantasy fiction. From the novels of H. G. Wells to Battlestar Galactica, science and fantasy fictions appear critically engaged with the operations and legacies of imperialism. Could science and fantasy fiction then be exemplary genres for indigenous and postcolonial writers, critical sites, that is, of survivance, decolonization, and indigenization?