{"id":4411,"date":"2012-03-13T16:42:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T20:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=4411"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:00:17","slug":"stuart-murray","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/stuart-murray\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart J. Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests<br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>rhetoric<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ethical studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>biopolitics and bioethics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>critical theory and media<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>medical humanities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>gender and sexuality studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My research contributes to an understanding of ethics in light of the ethical challenges raised by burgeoning biotechnologies and biopolitical forms of governance. The increasing \u201cbiologization\u201d of bodies and political identities renders obsolete traditional forms of ethics, based on the principles of human reason and autonomy. This program of research addresses the constitution of subjectivity through biotechnology, biopolitics, and global media networks. More specifically, it interrogates the ways in which the concept of \u201clife\u201d is constituted and deployed as an ethical good, from human rights to biophysiology, and from civil society to bioethics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By drawing on and incorporating the lessons of rhetorical theory and criticism, textuality studies, and poststructuralism, I hope to contribute to a better understanding of ethical life, relationality, and sociality. This perspective is better able to address subjectivities constituted in the wake of advanced biotechnologies, healthcare systems, and communications networks and practices. The objective is to reorient ethical discourse and practice away from the tradition of liberal humanism, and instead to look at the ways that ethics is a rhetorical practice located in and through bodies, political identities, and communicative networks and their effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SSHRC-Funded Research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Communicating, Desiring, Experiencing: The Rhetorics of \u201cGreat Sex\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>In the contemporary mediascape, we are witness to a panoply of often contradictory discourses on sexuality. The pathologizing discourses of \u201cprofessional\u201d practice and research tend to medicalize and psychiatrize sex and sexuality. By contrast, popular mass media exhort us to optimize our sexual performance and pleasure, and yet alongside these injunctions we are warned of diverse \u201cdangers\u201d and \u201crisks,\u201d making sexuality the subject of suspicion, surveillance, and regulation. It has become impossible, thanks in part to the work of the #MeToo movement, to ignore burgeoning institutional and educational programs promoting sexual consent and raising the awareness of sexual violence and abuse. Sympathetic yet critical responses to these discourses, however, demonstrate how, in an effort to stop sexual violence, we have created a climate of suspicion, moral panic, and fear of legal prosecution. In this complex discursive context, most surprising perhaps is the studied silence that reigns: very little research attends to the expression of desire, the pursuit of pleasure, or the experience of sexual pleasure itself. It is precisely this lacuna that this project aims to address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Feeling Life: Biopolitics, Literature, and Humanitarian Sentimentality&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What mode of sentimental feeling\u2014what affective force\u2014drives 21st-century biopolitical\/humanitarian interventions on the part of Western democratic states? And how does \u201chumanitarian sentimentality\u201d function implicitly as a moral justification for political or even military actions in the name of humanity or human life itself? A literary history, but foremost an unexamined history of the present, this project addresses these questions by turning to \u201csentimental\u201d literature of the early 19th century\u2014novels and memoirs that emerged, significantly, in the same historical moment as biopolitics. Literary texts cultivated our desires and dispositions to alleviate human suffering and to promote human welfare, and contributed enormously to a discourse on humanitarianism and human rights. We argue that a better understanding of how the literary production of humanitarian sentimentality informed and, indeed, \u201cpopularized\u201d biopolitics will provide critical tools for examining how humanitarian sentimentality drives contemporary neoliberal biopolitics today\u2014the power \u201cto make live and let die.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cEthics and Mental Health Care: An Analysis of Professional Practices in Correctional Institutions\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This research project is situated at the crossroads of two disciplinary fields: health sciences and ethics. From an ethical perspective, it explores the practices of healthcare providers with respect to the care that they offer to a vulnerable population (psychiatric inmates) within specific psychiatric care milieus (forensic psychiatric units). Several authors have described the challenges faced by healthcare providers, such as nurses and social workers, who work in forensic psychiatry. However, few have addressed the ethical stakes of a professional practice that is subordinate to the security measures that govern forensic psychiatric milieus. Healthcare providers are constantly confronted with the opposing imperatives of care and security (including correctional operations). This study addresses the causes and consequences of this ethical dilemma. In doing so, it seeks to represent the ethical tensions experienced by specific healthcare professional groups, including nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CIHR-Funded Research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Developing a Research Agenda to Examine Sociocultural and Ethical Issues in the Era of HIV Treatment-as-Prevention&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This planning grant brings HIV care providers, community members, and researchers from across Canada into dialogue concerning the sociocultural and ethical impact of new HIV treatment and prevention approaches.&nbsp; Recently, treatment and prevention have merged to become what is being called treatment-as-prevention.&nbsp; Called &#8220;TasP&#8221; for short, this approach promotes increasing individual HIV testing, and early initiation of HIV drug treatment, to reduce the spread of HIV at the population level.&nbsp; This planning grant comprises a critical interpretive synthesis (CIS) of TasP literature, a series of consultations with HIV stakeholders in key areas of the country, and the development of a pan-Canadian research project based on the CIS and consultations.&nbsp; The goal of this project is to develop a larger program of research that will examine how HIV stakeholders interpret TasP and integrate it into clinical and personal health practices for people living with HIV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cSolitary Space: Seclusion Rooms and the Ethics of Body and Place\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The purpose of this study is to shift the terms of ethical discourse in a manner that will be commensurable with the lived experience of patients and with nursing staff who care for them. Through a critical ethnography and semi-structured interviews with patients and nursing staff, we employ a phenomenological analysis to gain a better understanding of the seclusion room as a lived and relational space. This is an original project because very little research has addressed the subjective dimensions of body and place in the study of ethical practice. Moreover, the project answers the growing need for an alternative approach to bioethics, one that extends beyond the abstract coordinates of analytic philosophy. Such an examination could help healthcare providers to consider the emotional and bodily impacts of seclusion on patients, and encourage them not only to better understand the experience of patients but also to actively find alternatives to this controversial intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Honours and Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric and Ethics 2012-2021<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Visiting Scholar, Franklin International Faculty Exchange Program, Department of Communication Studies, University of Georgia 2017<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fellow, Centre de recherche en \u00e9thique, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al 2016<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Royal Society of Canada, College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists 2014-2021<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research Achievement Award, Carleton University 2014<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SRC Award, Ryerson University 2009-2010<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of Toronto 2005-2006<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto 2004-2006<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chancellor\u2019s Fellowship, UC Berkeley 2003-2004<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley 2002-2003<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, UC Berkeley 2001-2002<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ERASMUS Scholarship, Bergische Universit\u00e4t-Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, Germany 1995<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Grants<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>SSHRC Insight Development Grant 2012-2014, 2016-2018, 2019-2020<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Leadership Opportunity Fund 2013-2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CIHR Planning Grant 2013-2014<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SSHRC Standard Research Grant 2009-2012<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CIHR Operating Grant 2011-2013<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New Faculty SRC Development Grant, Ryerson University 2008-2010<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SSHRC Institutional Research Grant, Ryerson University 2008-2009<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"297\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2025\/09\/The-Living-From-the-Dead-S.-Murray.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27085\" style=\"width:184px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>S.J. Murray, <em>The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics<\/em> (Penn State University Press, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>D. Holmes, S.J. Murray, &amp; T. Foth (eds.), <em>Radical Sex Between Men: Assembling Desiring-Machines<\/em> (Routledge, 2017)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A. Blum &amp; S.J. Murray (eds.), <em>The&nbsp;Ethics of Care: Moral Knowledge, Communication, and the Art of Caregiving<\/em> (Routledge, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.J. Murray &amp; D. Holmes (eds.), <em>Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare: Challenging the Principle of Autonomy in Bioethics<\/em> (Ashgate Publishing, 2009)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selected Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.J. Murray, \u201cThe Practice of Everyday Death: On the Paratactical \u2018Life\u2019 of Neo-liberal Biopolitics,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Canadian Review of American Studies<\/em>, vol. 52, no. 3 (in press), doi: 10.3138\/cras-2021-017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S. Corneau, D. Beaulieu-Pr\u00e9vost,S.J. Murray,K. Bernatchez, &amp; M. Lecompte, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/modernrhetoric.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/05\/gay-male-pornography-and-the-racialisation-of-desire.pdf\">Gay Male Pornography and the Racialisation of Desire<\/a>,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Culture, Health &amp; Sexuality,<\/em>&nbsp;vol. 23, no. 5 (2021): 579\u2013592, doi:10.1080\/13691058.2020.1717630<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T. Lemieux &amp; S.J. Murray, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.utpjournals.press\/pb-assets\/utoronto\/topia\/TOPIA_41_012%20Lemieux_Forthcoming_VD-1604694774227.pdf\">The Pandemic as \u2018Joke\u2019: Meme Culture, the Alt-Right, and Steve Bannon\u2019s \u2018War Room\u2019<\/a>,\u201d&nbsp;<em>TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies,&nbsp;<\/em>vol. 41 (2020): 94\u2013103<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M. Gagnon, A. Guta, R. Upshur, S.J. Murray, &amp; V. Bungay, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12910-020-00548-5\">\u2018It Gets People Through the Door\u2019: A Qualitative Case Study of the Use of Incentives in the Care of People at Risk or Living with HIV in British Columbia<\/a>,\u201d&nbsp;<em>BMC Medical Ethics<\/em>, vol. 21, 105 (2020): 1\u201318,doi: 10.1186\/s12910-020-00548-5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.J. Murray, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/modernrhetoric.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/philrhet.53.3.0299-2.pdf\">The Suicidal State: In Advance of an American Requiem<\/a>,\u201d Special Issue \u201cIn the Midst of COVID-19,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Philosophy &amp; Rhetoric<\/em>, vol. 52, no. 3 (2020): 299\u2013305<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>D. Jenkins, D. Holmes, C. Burton, S.J. Murray, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/modernrhetoric.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/06\/16753368.pdf\">\u2018This Is Not a Patient, This Is Property of the State\u2019: Nursing, Ethics, and the Immigration Detention Apparatus<\/a>,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Nursing Inquiry,&nbsp;<\/em>vol. 27, no. 3 (2020): e12358, doi: 10.1111\/nin.12358<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.J. Murray, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.utpjournals.press\/journals\/topia\/crisis-critique?=\">COVID-19: Crisis, Critique, and the Limits of What We Can Hear<\/a>,\u201d&nbsp;<em>TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies&nbsp;<\/em>(2020), doi: 10.3138\/topia.2020.covid-19.05<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.J. Cooke, V.M. Nguyen, D. Anastakis, \u2026 S.J. Murray, et al., \u201cDiverse Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity from Members of the College of The Royal Society of Canada,\u201d <em>FACETS Journal<\/em> (forthcoming, 2020), doi: 10.1139\/facets-2019-0044<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.J. Murray, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/modernrhetoric.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/02\/regarder-le-regard.pdf\">Regarder le regard : le racisme biopolitique et les propos haineux num\u00e9riques<\/a>,\u201d <em>Canadian Review of American Studies<\/em> (forthcoming, 2020), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utpjournals.press\/doi\/abs\/10.3138\/cras.2019.007\">advance online<\/a>, doi: 10.3138\/cras.2019.007<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.J. Murray, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ro.uow.edu.au\/ltc\/vol23\/iss1\/12\/\">A Rhetorical Matter of Life and Law: The Speculative Futures of (Bio)political Reproduction<\/a>,\u201d <em>Law Text Culture<\/em>, vol. 23 (2019): 198\u2013222, special issue on \u201cLegal Materiality,\u201d eds. H.Y. Kang &amp; S. Kendall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.J. Murray, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/modernrhetoric.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/thanatopolitics-bloomsbury-handbook.pdf\">Thanatopolitics<\/a>,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Bloomsbury Handbook to Literary and Cultural Theory<\/em>, ed. J.R. Di Leo (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), 718\u2013719<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A. Guta &amp; S.J. Murray, \u201cOn the Possibility of Being Governed Otherwise: Exploring Foucault\u2019s Legacy for Critical Social Science Studies in the Field of HIV\/AIDS,\u201d in <em>Thinking Differently about HIV\/AIDS: Contributions from Critical Social Science<\/em>, eds. E. Mykhalovskiy &amp; V. Namaste (UBC Press, 2019), 39\u201371<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.J. Murray, S. Corneau, D. Medico, S. Burgess, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/is-metoo-casting-a-shadow-on-sexual-pleasure-113245\">Is #MeToo Casting a Shadow on Sexual Pleasure?<\/a>,\u201d The Conversation Canada, 1 April 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.J. Murray &amp; T. Lemieux, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/modernrhetoric.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/debate.pdf\"><em>Combat\u2014D\u00e9bat<\/em>: Parataxis and the Unavowable Community; or, The Joke<\/a>,\u201d <em>Philosophy &amp; Rhetoric<\/em>, vol. 52, no. 1 (2019): 78\u201385<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J. Pariseau-Legault, D. Holmes, &amp; S.J. Murray \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/nup.12229\">Understanding Human Enhancement Technologies through Critical Phenomenology<\/a>,\u201d <em>Nursing Philosophy<\/em> (2018), doi:10.1111\/nup.12229<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.J. Murray, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/canadas-moral-negligence-in-jamal-khashoggis-murder-107782\">Canada\u2019s Moral Negligence in Jamal Khashoggi\u2019s Murder<\/a>,\u201d The Conversation Canada, 28 November 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.J. Murray &amp; D.L. Steinberg, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/catalystjournal.org\/index.php\/catalyst\/article\/view\/29632\">To Mourn, To Re-imagine without Oneself: Death, Dying, and Social Media\/tion<\/a>,\u201d <em>Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience<\/em>, Special Issue on Illness Narratives, vol. 4, no. 1 (2018): 1\u201331, doi:10.28968\/cftt.v4i1.29632<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.J. Murray &amp; S. Kendall, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/modernrhetoric.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/murray-and-kendall.pdf\">\u2018Let Us Eat Cake\u2019: Speaking for the Dead<\/a>,\u201d <em>Qui Parle<\/em>, 30<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Issue, vol. 26, no. 2 (2017): 325\u2013328<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.J. Murray, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/modernrhetoric.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/12\/philosophy-without-tears.pdf\">On Rhetoric and the School of Philosophy Without Tears<\/a>\u201d [invited contribution], 50<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Issue, <em>Philosophy &amp; Rhetoric<\/em>, vol. 50, no. 4 (2017): 528\u2013551<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.J. Murray, D. Holmes, &amp; S. Burgess, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/modernrhetoric.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/soc_136_0073.pdf\">Mort d\u2019Ashley Smith : entre bio-politique carc\u00e9rale et souverainet\u00e9 judiciaire<\/a>,\u201d <em>Soci\u00e9t\u00e9s: Revue des sciences humaines et sociales<\/em>, no. 136 (2017): 73\u201390<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.J. Murray &amp; T. Lemieux, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thephilosophicalsalon.com\/apprehending-the-death-of-jamel-dunn\/\">Apprehending the Death of Jamel Dunn<\/a>,\u201d <em>Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>, The Philosophical Salon, 18 September 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S. Kendall &amp; S.J. Murray, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/criticallegalthinking.com\/2017\/04\/10\/trumps-law-toward-necropolitical-humanitarianism\/\">Trump\u2019s Law: Toward a Necropolitical Humanitarianism<\/a>,\u201d Critical Legal Thinking, 10 April 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.J. Murray, \u201cNeoliberal Biopolitics through the Spectacles of the Gene,\u201d <em>Science as Culture<\/em>, vol. 26, no. 2 (2017): 255\u2013259, doi:10.1080\/09505431.2016.1238890<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.J. Murray, \u201cAffirming the Human? The Question of Biopolitics,\u201d <em>Law, Culture and the Humanities<\/em>, vol. 12, no. 3 (2016), 485\u2013495<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.A. Stevenson &amp; S.J. Murray, \u201cAboriginal Bioethics as Critical Bioethics: The Virtue of Narrative,\u201d <em>American Journal of Bioethics<\/em>, vol. 16, no. 5 (2016), 52\u201354<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A. Guta, S.J. Murray, &amp; M. Gagnon, \u201cHIV, Viral Suppression and New Technologies of Surveillance and Control,\u201d <em>Body &amp; Society<\/em> (2016), doi:10.1177\/1357034X15624510<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S. Burgess &amp; S.J. Murray, \u201cCutting Both Ways: On the Ethical Entanglements of Human Rights, Rites, and Genital Mutilation,\u201d <em>American Journal of Bioethics<\/em>, vol. 15, no. 2 (2015): 50\u201351<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.J. Murray, \u201cHegel\u2019s Pathology of Recognition: A Biopolitical Fable,\u201d in The Rhetorical Contours of Recognition [Special Issue], <em>Philosophy and Rhetoric<\/em>, vol. 48, no. 4 (2015): 443\u2013472<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selected Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCare For Death,\u201d Keynote Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ethics of Care Initiative Conference, Madison, WI, 13\u201314 May 2021 (via Zoom)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHearkening the Dead,\u201d Live Theory podcast, Department of English, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 16 April 2021 (via Zoom), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livetheory.org\/podcast\">https:\/\/www.livetheory.org\/podcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSolidarity in the Time of Social Distancing: The Effects of COVID-19 on Knowledge Creation, Exchange, and Dissemination,\u201d Scholars at Risk Network (Canada) Round-Table, McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill University, Montreal, QC, 10 December 2020 (via Zoom)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRegarder le regard : le racisme biopolitique et les propos haineux num\u00e9riques,\u201d Keynote Lecture, Departement de sociologie, Universit\u00e9 Paul-Val\u00e9ry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France, 18 September 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTwo Irreconcilable Claims to Medico-Legal Sovereignty,\u201d Critical Legal Conference, Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, Universit\u00e0 di Perugia, Italy, 14 September 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHope: The Opium of the Masses, with a nod to Milan Kundera\u2019s <em>The Joke<\/em>,\u201d Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ottawa, ON, 22 March 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIndigeneity and Indigent Sovereignty: Law, Medicine, Life,\u201d Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ottawa, ON, 22 March 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Age of Anxious Anxiety: Risk, Race, Rage,\u201d Keynote Lecture, University of Ottawa Graduate Student Conference, Department of English, Ottawa, ON, 8 March 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIndigeneity and Indigent Sovereignty: Law, Medicine, Life,\u201d Intangible Heritage: Scenes of Urban Innovation Conference, Athens, Greece, 10\u201313 July 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNecessaries of Life: The Rhetorics of Medico-Legal Time and Indigenous Life-Times,\u201d Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 31 May 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCare of the Self and Self-knowledge: Rhetoric, Self-reflection, and Ethics in Plato\u2019s <em>Alcibiades I<\/em>,\u201d [second author] with Twyla Gibson, The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Fordham University, New York, NY, 21\u201322 October 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Mitwelt<\/em>: Biopolitical Resolutions and the Remediating Event of Death,\u201d 2017 Conference on Rhetorical Theory, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 13\u201314 October 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNecessaries of Life: On the Biopolitical \u2018Timeliness\u2019 of Medico-Legal Life,\u201d Program in Peace, Justice, and Human Rights, Haverford College, Haverford, PA, 5 October 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDeath By Whose Own Hand? 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Anderson<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&nbsp;(2011; nominated for Governor-General\u2019s Award) (SSHRC, OGS), \u201cCreatures of Artifice: Rodney Brooks and the Bioethics of Animated Machines\u201d; Graduate Programme in Communication &amp; Culture, Ryerson University<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">MA (supervisor):<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sanita Fejzic (2016 \u2013 2017) (SSHRC), \u201cThe Will of Poetry in Rita Wong and Virginia Woolf: A Queer and Feminist Ethic of Care,\u201d MA Thesis, English Language &amp; Literature, Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Kathleen Gorman<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&nbsp;(2013), \u201c<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Biopolitical Novel: Literary Demystification of Systems of Bio-power,<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201d Major Research Paper, MA in English Language &amp; Literature, Carleton University<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Valerie Uher<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&nbsp;(2010 \u2013 2011), \u201cThe Significance of Anya\u2019s \u2018Grace\u2019: Ethics, Embodiment and Erotic Desire in J.M. 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