Casey Ready

Professor Davina Bhandar
Kerr House 201 , Traill College
Phone: (705) 748-1011, Ext. 6027

Secretary: Jeannine Crowe, 748 1817
Email: DavinabhandarATtrentu.ca
Presently Teaching: on leave FW2011

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.

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Professor Sally Chivers

Traill College, Kerr House 205
Phone: (705) 748-1011, Ext.7950
Secretary: Jeannine Crowe, 748 1817
Email: SallychiversATtrentu.ca
Currently Teaching: ENGL 3500Y, and graduate teaching.

Degrees: BA hons (CALGARY), PhD (MCGILL)

Recent publications:

• The Silvering Screen: Old Age and Disability in Cinema.  Toronto:  UTP, 2011.

• The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film. Co-edited with Nicole Markotic, (collaboration equal). Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010.

• “Ordinary People: Reading the TransCanadian Terry Fox.” Canadian Literature. 202 (2009): 80-94.

• “Disabled Veterans ‘Soldier On’: Canadians Coming Home from Afghanistan.” Canadian Review of American Studies. 39.3 (2009): 321-342. 

• ‘Move! You’re in the way!’  Disability and Age Meet on Screen” Canadian Journal of Film Studies: Revue Canadienne D’Études Cinématographique.. 17.1 (2008): 30-43.

• “Barrier by Barrier:  The Canadian Disability Movement and the Fight for Equal Rights.”  Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada.  Calgary: Broadview Press, 2007.  307-328.
• “On the Road Again:  Aritha Van Herk’s No Fixed Address and Suzette Mayr’s The Widows.”  Adventures of the Spirit:  The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers. Ed. Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2007. 200-215.
• “Hanging in Plain Sight:  The Problem Body in Thom Fitzgerald’s Films.’” Movie Gods: Great Canadian Movie Directors.  Ed. George Melnyk.  Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2007. (with Nicole Markotic, collaboration equal).  329-344.
• “The Silvering Screen: Age and Trauma in Akira Kurasawa’s Rhapsody in August.”  Unfitting Stories:  Narrative Approaches to Disability, Disease and Trauma. Ed.  Valerie Raoul, Connie Canam, Angela Henderson, and Carla Paterson.  Waterloo:  Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2007.  97-104.

Current Research

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

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Prof. Caroline Durand

Assistant Professor

Lady Eaton College S103

705-748-1011 x 7109

carolinedurand@trentu.ca

Research interests:

Québec history, from 1867 to the present, from social, cultural and political perspectives.

Food history, 1880-1980.

Particular interest for the history of popular music, the Quiet revolution, and women's history. 

Selected publications:

• “Rational Meals for the Traditional Family: Nutrition in Quebec School Manuals, 1900-1960,” in the collection Edible Histories, Cultural Politics, edited by Franca Iacovetta, Valerie J. Korinek and Marlene Epp. Forthcoming, University of Toronto Press, 2012.
• “L’alimentation moderne pour la famille traditionnelle : Les discours sur l’alimentation au Québec, 1914-1945”, Revue de Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, no. 3, (2011), pp. 60-73.
• “Entre exportation et importation : la création de la chanson québécoise selon la presse artistique, 1960-1980”, Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française, vol. 60, no. 3 (2007), pp. 295-324.

Current research:

Food and nutrition in Québec, 1945-1980.

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Professor Michèle Lacombe

Lady Eaton College, S106
Phone: (705) 748-1011, Ext. 7845
Secretary:  Sue Devlin, 748-1011 x 7464 (am) or 7626 (1-4:30)
E-mail:  MlacombeATtrentu.ca
Presently Teaching: CAST 3520Y, CAST 3480Y
Degrees: B.A. (McGILL), M.A., Ph.D.(YORK)

Selected publications:

• “Songs of the Open Road: Bon Echo, Urban Utopians and the Cult of Nature,” in Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes  33, 2 (Summer 1998)
• “The Cyborg Identities of Oryx and Crake” in Margaret Atwood: The Open Eye, ed. John Moss and Tobi Kozakewich.  Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2006
• “Reading Critical Frameworks, Reading Eden Robinson: on Monkey Beach,” in International Journal of Canadian Studies/ Revue international d’études canadiennes, 41:1 (2010)
•  “"La critique littéraire autochtone en amérique du nord:  approches anglophones mises en contexte", in Littératures autochtones: de l’oralité à l’écriture, ed. Maurizio Gatti and Louis-Jacques Dorais (Montreal: Mémoire d’encrier, 2010)
• "'Dave, come on':  Indigenous Identities and Language Play in Yves Sioui Durand's Hamlet-le-Malécite" in Studies in Canadian Literature / Etudes en Littérature Canadienne, Special Section:  Indigeneity in Dialogue:  Indigenous Literary Expression Across Linguistic Divides, 35:2 p 53 - 75 (2010)

• “Colonialism, Métissage, and the Logic of (Imperial) Relations: la Sagouine ‘parmi les sauvages’” in Open  Letter: a Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory (14:6), Summer 2011, a special theme issue “Remembering Barbara Godard,” pp. 56-71.

Current Research

Indigenous literatures, critical theory, ecocriticism, Canadian women's writing, and comparative Canadian literatures

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Professor John Milloy

Wallis Hall 108, Traill College

Phone:  748-1011, Ext. 6064

Secretary:  Jeannine Crowe, 748-1817

Email:  jmilloyATtrentu.ca

Currently Teaching: CAST 2255Y, CAST 3335H, CAST 4000Y  

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Professor Bryan Palmer

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

Secretary: Jeannine Crowe, 748-1817

Email: bpalmerATtrentu.ca

Graduate Teaching FW 2011

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).
• Labouring Canada: Class, Gender, and Race in Canadian Working-Class History  edited collection (with Joan Sangster),(Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2008)
• Canada’s 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009).

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. His writing appears in Canadian and international journals, and has been translated into Chinese, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. He is currently engaged in a number of projects, completing his study of James P. Cannon and the American revolutionary left and continuing to work on his study of Upper Canada in the 1830s.

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Professor James Struthers
M.A. (Carleton); Ph.D. (Toronto)
Traill College KH 206
(705) 748-1728 x 6021

Email: jstruthersATtrentu.ca

Webpage

Presently teaching:  on sabbatical 2011

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, "Re-imagining Long-Term Residential Care: an International Study of Promising Practices," Principal Investigator, Dr. Pat Armstrong, Department of Sociology, York University

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).

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Professor Jonathan Greene

Champlain College E13

Phone:  (705) 748-1011, Ext. 6004

Email:  JgreeneATtrentu.ca

Presently Teaching:  CAST 3665H FA11, CAST 4555H  WI12

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Prof. Meaghan Beaton

Room 103 Kerr House
Phone: ext. 6067
Email: meaghanbeatonATtrentu.ca
Presently Teaching: tba

Degrees: BA (Carleton), MA (Saint Mary's), LLB (Dalhousie), PhD (In Progress - Trent)

Research Interest:

Social, cultural and political history of postwar Canada;
post-Confederation history of Atlantic Canada; Canada's 1967 Centennial
celebrations.

Recent Publications:

• Meaghan Beaton and Del Muise, “The Road to the Isle:* *The Canso Causeway, Tartan Tourism, Industrial Development and the Promise of Progress/Modernization in Cape Breton,” *Acadiensis *XXXVIII, no. 2 (Summer/Autumn 2008)
  

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Professor Molly Blyth

Secretary: Jeannine Crowe, 748 1817

Email: mollyblythATtrentu.ca

Webpage

Currently Teaching:  CAST 3000Y PET, CAST 3507H OSH FA 2011

Degrees:  BA (Toronto) MA (York) PhD (Trent)

Research Interests:  Post-colonial theory, critical race theory, contemporary cultural production in Canada, Indigenous literature.

Recent Publications:

• The History of Mary Prince and Ashton Werner: Two Slave Narratives. 1831, Transcribed by Susanna Strickland (Moodie), Eds. and Introduction Molly Blyth and Michael Peterman, Ottawa, Tecumseh Press, (Forthcoming)
• "So, What’s a White Girl Like Me Doing in a Place Like This? Rethinking Cross-Cultural Teaching in a First Nations Context.” Resources for Feminist Research 33.3/4 (2008): 63-78.
• "Two New World `Wilderness' Texts: Re-reading `The Writing that Conquers.’" The Journal of Canadian Studies 33.2 (Summer 1998): 97-106.
  

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Professor Mark Dickinson

Secretary:  Jeannine Crowe, 748 1817
E-mail: markdickinsonATtrentu.ca
Currently Teaching: CAST 2040Y

Research Interests: Wilderness Thought; Indigenous Knowledges; Poetics of Ecological Consciousness

Recent Publications:

• Mark Dickinson & Clare Goulet, editors. Lyric Ecology: An Appreciation of the Work of Jan Zwicky. Toronto: Cormorant Books, 2010.
• Mark Dickinson. "The Back-stretched Connection." Lyric Ecology: An Appreciation of the Work of Jan Zwicky. 103-113.
• Mark Dickinson. "Translating What Is: Robert Bringhurst's New World Suite No. 3." Poetic Ecologies: Nature As Text And Text As Nature. Edited by Franca Bellasari. Zurich: Peter Lang Books. Forthcoming 2010.
• Mark Dickinson. "Canadian Primal: Five poet-thinkers redefine our relationship to nature." The Walrus. June 2009. 62-65.

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Professor Ian Milligan

Office: Room N112 Lady Eaton College

E-mail: ianmilligan@Trentu.ca

Currently Teaching: CAST 2285H Peterborough WI12

Degrees: BA (Queen's), MA (York), PhD (York)

Research Interests:
Youth Cultures, Canada's 1960s, Digital Humanities and History, Postwar Canada, Knowledge Mobilization and New and Emerging Publishing Models.

Current Research:
I am currently undertaking two major projects. First, I am revising my doctoral dissertation into publication by a major Canadian academic press. Secondly, I have begun work on my next project, tentatively titled “Postwar English-Canadian Youth Cultures: A Digital History, 1945-1990,” which applies digital humanities methodologies to the study of postwar Canadian history. These methods have the potential to access a much broader perspective on youth, pulling our lens out from the lives and activities of a small number of privileged and unrepresentative youth to gain a synoptic view of youth culture more generally. Recently, I have also been writing about innovative research methodologies and tools, and am seeking to put them into practice. To that end, I am a founding co-editor of Activehistory.ca, and am a research assistant/consultant on "Translating History/Shaping Practice," a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Knowledge Transfer (KT) grant.

 
Recent Publications:

• "The Challenge of 'High-Throughput' Computational Methods," for Barry Rodrigue, Andrey Korotayev and Leonid Grinin, eds. University of California Press anthology for Big History, in final review. [co-authored with William J. Turkel]
• “Coming off the Mountain: Forging an Outward Looking New Left at Simon Fraser University,” BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, Vol. 171 (Autumn 2011): 69-91.
• “‘This Board Has a Duty to Intervene,’ Challenging the Spadina Expressway Through the Ontario Municipal Board, 1963-1971,” Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire urbaine, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Spring 2011): 25-37.
• “‘The Force of All Our Numbers:’ New Leftists, Labour, and the 1973 Artistic Woodwork Strike,” Labour/Le Travail, 66 (Fall 2010): 37-71.

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Professor Maggie Quirt

Secretary: Jeannine Crowe, 748 1817

Email: maggiequirtATtrentu.ca

Currently Teaching:  CAST 1000Y

Degrees: BA (Trent), MA (Victoria), PhD (Trent)

Recent publications:

• Contextualizing Care, Old Age, and Disability: An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography on the Contributions of “Dependent” Populations and the Costs of Caregiving. Edmonton: University of Alberta, 2005.
• “‘Please Check One’: Metaphors of Biculturalism in Canadian Citizenship Applications.” Canadian Issues June 2003: 34 – 36.
• “Soliloquy.” In Freefall and Stories: An Anthology of Student Writing. Ed. Orm Mitchell. Peterborough: Trent University, 1995.

Research interests:

citizenship identity; Canadian literature and identity; racialized and gendered identities in postwar Canada; women’s life writing; Indigenous-settler relations

Current research:

I am currently exploring the diaries and letters of Bessie Quirt, an unmarried women missionary who taught at the first residential school for Inuit children at Shingle Point. I am interested in what insights may be gleaned from focusing on women’s experience as the starting point for discussion, particularly as this relates to contact between natives and non-natives in the Arctic.

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Professor Casey Ready

Office: Room 220 Wallis Hall

Phone:  705 748 1011 ext. 6420

Secretary:  Jeannine Crowe, 705 748 1817

Email:  creadyATtrentu.ca

Currently Teaching:  CAST 4770Y

Degrees: BSW (University of Western Ontario), MSW (Toronto), PhD (In Progress - Trent)

Research Interests:

Canadian social welfare state, violence against women, women and poverty, voluntary sector, neoliberalism, feminismn, community engagement, social justice

Current Research:

I am writing my dissertation on the impact of neoliberalism on feminism in the violence against women work of three YWCA organizations in Ontario. This involves research findings from interviews and focus groups with forty-one staff, volunteers, clients and funders of the three YWCAs and with violence against women activists. I presented papers on my initial findings to conferences in early 2011. This research builds on my experience as Executive Director of several non-profit organizations, extensive work with community-based planning and advocacy groups, and research and policy development work with government and social planning organizations.

Research Presentations:

“A Voice for Feminism: YWCA’s “Still Speaking Out.” People and Politics: Interactions Between Citizens and the Canadian State Conference, Centre for Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University, March 2011

“Negotiating Non-Profit Governance in a Neoliberal State.” Canadian Democracy at a Crossroads Conference, Political Science Graduate Student Conference, Carleton University, February 2011

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