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Adjunct Professor
My current interests include National Trauma across cinema, literature, and visual culture and issues of Modernity in the films of Alfred Hitchcock. More recent work includes the mapping of Trauma onto trans-national and global sites of catastrophe. Some doctoral dissertations supervised and in progress include: The Writing of Trauma and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, The Autobiography of Salvador Dali, Weimar Cinema and Culture, and the Historiography of Memory and the Armenian Genocide.
Recent publications include the edited Tainting History: Essays in Life Writing (Penumbra Press: 2005) and Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject, co-edited with Suzan Ilcan (McGill-Queen’s University Press: 2004). I have also co-edited with Lorraine York the special topic The Gender Issue of Essays on Canadian Writing (Winter 1994). Recent chapters and papers in Journals include: ” Writing Against the Ruins: Towards a Postmodern Ethics of Memory” and “The Unbearable Strangeness of Being: Edgar Reitz’s Heimat and the Ethics of the Unheimlich” in Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject; “The Wounds of Memory. Mavis Gallant’s ‘Baum, Gabriel (1935-)’, National Trauma and Post-War French Cinema”, in Essays on Canadian Writing: Special Issue on Cultural Memory and Social Identity, 80. Fall 2003; and a number of essays on the novelist Timothy Findley which I am currently gathering together for a full-length volume.
Recent papers and invited presentations include: Plenary Address, “National Trauma, Cinema and the Scene of Pedagogy”, British and American Literature and Culture Conference, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland (2007); “The Haunted Ontologies of the Gothic Tradion: Charlotte Bronte’s Villette and Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo”, IDEA Conference, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey (2007); and “Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest and the Benjaminean Haunting of the Cartesian Topographies of Modernity”, Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity Conference, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (2006), “Nation and Miscegenation: Modernist Colonial Memory and the Legibility of the ‘Half-Caste’ in Alfred Hitchcock’s Melodrama Murder! (1930)”, FSAC Conference, Vancouver, June 3, 2008.