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RESEARCH INTERESTS<\/strong>:
\nDocumentary Studies; Radicalism; Political Protest; The Body; Biopolitics; The U.S. War in Vietnam; Historiography; Anti-Imperialism; Collectivism; Conflict Journalism; Film Editing; Propaganda; Pedagogy; Ethics; Disciplinary Institutions; Armed Struggle; Self-Immolation; Ethnography; Social Movements<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CURRENT RESEARCH:
\n<\/strong>My current research examines the relationship between radical documentary films and extreme forms of protest against the U.S. War in Vietnam, both of which, I argue, pursued a collectivist social pedagogy. For example, on November 2nd, 1965, Norman Morrison doused himself in kerosene and set himself on fire outside Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s office at the Pentagon. While Morrison\u2019s performance has been relegated to the margins of radical history, I give it pride of place in my dissertation on the uses of body as a documentary medium during the 1960\u2019s and 70\u2019s. Although setting oneself on fire may appear an irrational act, I argue to the contrary that such performances were an expression of political knowledge premised on activists\u2019 refusal to engage with state-sanctioned codes of public discourse. In this context, direct action constituted a revolutionary documentary form resistant to the technologies of power Michel Foucault calls biopolitics and discipline, conjointly known as biopower. In the documentary film Far from Vietnam<\/em>, Morrison\u2019s widow explains that her husband\u2019s final act \u201cmade perfect sense.\u201d Inspired by Anne Morrison\u2019s composure in the face of unimaginable loss, my research contends that anti-war protest actions such as self-immolation repudiated biopower\u2019s right \u201cto make live and to let die.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PUBLICATIONS:<\/strong>
\n– \u201cNot Enough Raven: Reading Lee Maracle\u2019s Ravensong as Counter-Hegemonic Ethnography\u201d Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 45, no. 1, 2020, forthcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONFERENCES:
\n<\/strong>– \u201cWorking for No Money: Aid Slavery and Debt-Peonage in Renzo Martens\u2019 Enjoy Poverty: Episode III\u201d Society of Cinema and Media Studies, Virtual Conference, March 2021.
\n– \u201cTo Be(head) or Not to Be(head): Decapitation, Community, and Ontological Politics in Richard Coer de Lyon.\u201d English Graduate Students Society (EGSS; conference), Carleton University, Ottawa, ON. April 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AWARDS:
\n<\/strong>– Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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