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Faculty:

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Prof. D. Bhandar

Prof. S. Chivers

Prof. J. Greene

Prof. M. Lacombe

Prof. J. Milloy

Prof. B. Palmer

Prof. J. Struthers

Prof. J. Wadland

 

Post Doctoral Fellow

Dr. Wade Matthews

Course Instructors

Caroline Langill

Dr. Melanie Buddle

Sean Kheraj















 

 

Canadian Studies Faculty & Staff

For general inquiries, you can reach us by the following means:
E-mail: CanadianStudies@trentu.ca
Department of Canadian Studies
Trent University
Catharine Parr Traill College
310 London Street
Peterborough, Ontario, K9H 7P5
Telephone: (705) 748-1817
Fax: (705) 758-1715


Program Chair

Professor Bryan Palmer
Phone: (705) 748-1011, Ext.6061
E-mail:   bpalmer@trentu.ca

Program Secretary:

Elsie Scott, 748-1817

Email: escott@trentu.ca


Core Faculty:

Prof. Davina Bhandar Professor Davina Bhandar
Wallis Hall 120, Traill College
Phone: (705) 748-1011, Ext. 6027
Secretary: Elsie Scott, (705) 748-1817
Email: Davinabhandar@trentu.ca
Presently Teaching: CAST 100, CAST 300, CAST 440
Degrees: M.A., Ph.D (YORK)

Publications include:

  • “Renormalizing Life and Citizenship in Fortress North America” Citizenship Studies. (forthcoming)
  • “Donna Haraway” found in Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth and Imre Szeman (eds.) The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, Second Edition. Baltimore: John’s Hopkins University Press, (forthcoming Winter 2005)
  • “Citizenship,” found in Lorraine Code ed. Routledge Feminist Encyclopedia, London: Routledge, 2000.
  • “Critical Race Theory” found in Lorraine Code ed. Routledge Feminist Encyclopedia, London: Routledge, 2000.
  • “Ethnocentrism” found in Lorraine Code ed. Routledge Feminist Encyclopedia, London: Routledge, 2000.
  • “Terminator 3: Feminist Revenge of the Subject", eds. Lois Harder and Robert Marshall, Problematique, (1993) York University, Toronto Ont.


My current research engages in contemporary critiques of the concept of citizenship that have emerged through notions of transnationalism and politics of diaspora, particularly focussed on examining the notion of the migrant concept of citizenship. My teaching and research intersect in the fields of contemporary political and social theory, critical race studies, post-colonial theory and feminist theory. My work focuses on the examination of citizenship practices from “below” or rather through acts of governance, freedom, migration and immigration.


Sally Chivers Professor Sally Chivers

Lady Eaton College
Phone: (
705) 748-1011, Ext. 1724
Secretary: Judy Pinto, (705) 748-1011, Ext. 7950
Email:
Sallychivers@trentu.ca
Presently Teaching: CAST 200
Degrees: BA hons (CALGARY), PhD (MCGILL)

Recent publications:

"'This is my memory, a fact': The Many Mediations of Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka." Auto/biography in Canada: Theory, Criticism, Practice. Ed. Julie Rak. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005. 98-121.

From Old Woman to Older Women: Contemporary Culture and Women's Narratives. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 2003.

"Disability Studies and the Vancouver Opera's Of  Mice and Men."  Disability Studies Quarterly. Winter 2003. Volume 23. Number 8. 95-108.

Encyclopedia entries on "Disability and Film," "Disability and Television," "Tod Browning,"  "Frailty," "Hiromi Goto," and "bell hooks."

Forthcoming articles on Disability, Aging and Gender on Film, Thom Fitzgerald, Margaret Atwood, Akira Kurasawa, and Canadian road trips.

Current Research is an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between aging and disability in the Canadian public sphere.  Ongoing interests include contemporary women's writing, the problem body on film, and the cultures and representation of Western Canada.  My work is linked by an interest in how artistic forms, especially literature and film, contribute to critical thought and social movements.


Professor Jonathan Greene

Champlain College E13

Phone:  (705) 748-1011, Ext. 6004

Secretary:  Elsie Scott, (705) 748-1817

EmailJgreene@trentu.ca

Presently Teaching:  CAST 366H - Winter term 2008


 Professor Michele Lacombe Professor Michele Lacombe

Lady Eaton College, S106
Phone: (705) 748-1011, Ext. 1817
Secretary:
  Judy Pinto, (705) 748-7736
E-mail:  Mlacombe@trentu.ca
Presently Teaching:
(On Sabbatical)
Degrees: B.A. (McGILL), M.A., Ph.D.(YORK)

Selected Publications:
"Narrative, Carnival, Parody: Intertextuality in Antonine Maillet's Pélagie-la-Charrette," in Canadian Literature, 115 (Winter 1988).

"Woman and Nation: Epic Motifs in Margaret Laurence's The Diviners and Antonine Maillet's Pélagie," in Multiple Voices: Recent Canadian Fiction, ed. Jeanne Daelbare (Sydney: Dangaroo Press, 1990).

"Carnival," in Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Terms, Scholars, ed. Irene Makaryk (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993).

"Gender and Landscape in Ernest Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley," in Proceedings of the III European Multidisciplinary Seminar on Canadian Studies, ed. Giovanni Bonanno (University of Messina, 1994).

"Songs of the Open Road: Bon Echo, Urban Utopians and the Cult of Nature," in Journal of Canadian Studies 33, 2 (Summer 1998).

"Acadian Writing," in Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada, ed. William New (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002).

"'Strips of Rough Linoleum' Revisited:  Reconsidering Realism in the Works of Alice Munro", in Alice Munro: Writing Secrets, a special theme issue of Open Letter, 11/9 and 12/1 (Fall-Winter 2003-4).

"The Cyborg Identities of Oryx and Crake," forthcoming in The Open Eye: Proceedings of the Margaret Atwood Symposium, Univeristy of Ottawa.

Current Research and Ongoing Areas of Interest;

Canadian women writers, indigenous women writers, francophone writing in Canada, turn of the century writing (l890-1920), and contemporary Canadian writing.


Professor John MilloyProfessor John Milloy

Wallis Hall 108, Traill College

Phone:  748-1011, Ext. 6064

Secretary:  Elsie Scott, 748-1817

Email jmilloy@trentu.ca

Presently teaching:  CAST 100, CAST 255, CAST 400


Professor Bryan PalmerProfessor Bryan Palmer

Phone: (705) 748-1011, Ext. 6061

Secretary: Elsie Scott, (705) 748-1817

Email: bpalmer@trentu.ca

Degrees: BA ( University of Western Ontario ); MA/PhD (SUNY at Binghamton )

 

Selected Publications:

 

Working-Class Experience: Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991 (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1992).

 

Capitalism Comes to the Backcountry: The Goodyear Invasion of Napanee (Toronto: Between the Lines, 1994).

 

E.P. Thompson: Objections and Oppositions (London and New York: Verso, 1994).

 

Cultures of Darkness: Night Travels in the Histories of Transgression ( New York : Monthly Review, 2000).

 

James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 ( Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2006).

 

Current Research : Canada Research Chair and Editor of Labour/Le Travail , Professor Palmer is interested in the Canadian radical tradition, the study of the working class and social movements of opposition, and the relation of history and theory. He is currently working on a number of projects, including a history of Canada in the 1960s. His writing appears in Canadian and international journals, and has been translated into Chinese, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.


Professor James Struthers

Professor and Director, Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies
M.A. (Carleton); Ph.D. (Toronto)

Traill College KH 216
(705) 748-1728 x 6049

Email:  jstruthers@trentu.ca

Research interests: Modern Canadian social welfare history; Veterans and Canadian Social Policy; Aging, Caregiving, and the Welfare State in Post-World War II Canada

Recent Publications:   “’Comfort, Security, Dignity’: Home Care for Canada’s Aging Veterans, 1977-2004”, Elsbeth Heaman, Alison Li, and Shelley McKellar eds., Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss: Figuring the Social, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), 315-348; "'They Suffered With Us and Should be Compensated': Entitling Caregivers of Canada's Veterans,' Canadian Journal on Aging, 26 (Suppl), 117-132 (2007). 'Grizzled Old Men and Lonely Widows: Constructing the Single Elderly as a Social Problem in Canada’s Welfare State, 1945-1967', Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau eds., Mapping the Margins: Families and Social Discipline in Canada, 1700-1970, (Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004), 349-382.  'No Place Like Home: Gender, Family, and the Politics of Home Care in Post World War II Ontario', Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 20:2, September 2003, 387-418.   'Unequal Citizenship: The Residualist Legacy in the Canadian Welfare State', John English, Kenneth McLaughlin and P. Whitney Lackenbauer eds., Mackenzie King: Citizenship and Community, (Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 2002), 169-185  Current Research:. Co-Investigator and Co-Theme Leader, SSHRCC Major Collaborative Research Initiative, ‘Hidden Costs/Invisible Contributions: Marginalization of ‘Dependent’ Adults’. Principal Investigator, Dr. Janet Fast, Department of Human Ecology, University of Alberta.  

Major Publications: The Limits of Affluence: Welfare in Ontario, 1920-1970, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994);  No Fault of Their Own: Unemployment and the Canadian Welfare State, 1914-1941, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983).

 


Professor John Wadland Professor John Wadland


E-mail: jwadland@trentu.ca
Phone: (705) 748-1011, Ext. 1817
Presently teaching: (On Sabbatical
Degrees: B.A. (MCMASTER) M.A. (WATERLOO), Ph.D(YORK)

Recent Publications:

"
Tom Thomson's Places," in Tom Thomson. Dennis Reid, ed. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 2002.

"Voices in Search of Conversation: An Unfinished Project: Journal of Canadian Studies, 35:l (Spring, 2000), 52.75.

"Loons and Landscapes", in The Place of History: Proceedings of a Conference to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, T.H.B. Symons, ed. Ottawa: Royal Society of Canada, 1997.

"Great Rivers, Small Boats: The Environment in Canadian Historical Culture", in Changing Parks: The History, Future and Cultural Context of Parks and Heritage Landscapes. John Marsh and Bruce Hodgins, eds., Toronto: Natural Heritage Press, 1998.

"Teaching Bioregionalism: Trent University in the Haliburton Highlands", with Anna Gibson, in Sustainability: The Challenge. People, Power and the Environment. Anders Sandberg and Sverker Sorlin, eds., Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1998.

Current Research: Conducting ongoing interdisciplinary research in the field of Canadian environmental history. Particular interest in the practical and theoretical implications of land policy and landscape change; settlement history; social ecology and the social construction of nature; bioregionalism and sustainability; the political economy of natural resources; literary and artistic representations of land; aboriginal rights and postcolonialism.


Post Doctoral Fellows:

Dr. Wade Matthews

Kerr House 202, Traill College 
Phone: (705) 748-1011, Ext. 6034
Secretary: 
Elsie Scott, (705) 748-1817
Email:  Wadematthews@trentu.ca
Teaching:
CAST 476


LTA

Caroline Langill, MFA

Kerr House 206, Traill College

Phone:  (705) 748-1011, Ext. 6021

Secretary:  Elsie Scott, 748-1817

Teaching: CAST 274H, CAST 275H, CAST 420

Email:  carolinelangill@trentu.ca


Course Instructors:

Sean Kheraj (Teaching CAST 221H, CAST 477)

Emailseankheraj@trentu.ca

Melanie Buddle (Teaching CAST 222H)

Email:  melaniebuddle@trentu.ca

Kerr House 206, Traill College

Phone:  (705) 748-1011, Ext. 6021

Secretary:  Elsie Scott, 748-1817

 

 

 

 

 

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