Archives: Spotlight on Research

Thursday, December 15, 2022

Spotlight on Research: Professor Jan Schroeder has published a new article in Adoption & Culture

Prof. Jan Schroeder’s short article, “You Can Always Adopt,” appears in a new special issue of the journal Adoption & Culture, in which critical adoption scholars respond to the repeal of the landmark US precedent Roe v. Wade (1973). “You Can Always Adopt” argues that “stories about reproductive choice frame us as competitors in... More

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Spotlight on Research: Professor Barbara Leckie publishes “Climate Change, Interrupted”

In Climate Change, Interrupted: Representation and the Remaking of Time, published in November 2022 by Stanford University Press, Professor Barbara Leckie argues that linear, progress-inflected temporalities are not adequate to a crisis that defies their terms. Instead, this book advances a theory and practice of interruption to rethink prevailing... More

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Spotlight on Research: PhD English graduate Gemma Marr to work on a new Postdoc project

Dr. Gemma Marr, a former doctoral candidate in the Department of English, defended her dissertation in the late summer of 2022. She is the recipient of a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship that will take her to the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick, where she will be working with Dr. Erin Morton... More

Monday, October 3, 2022

Spotlight on Research: Professor Stuart J. Murray, “The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics”

Professor Stuart J. Murray has just published The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics with Penn State University Press. In the book, Professor Murray asks: in a society that aims above all to safeguard life, how might we reckon with ethical responsibility when we are complicit in sacrificial economies that produce and tolerate death... More

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