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Sally Chivers

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 18:12
First Name
Sally
Last Name
Chivers
Email
sallychivers@trentu.ca
Phone
705-748-1011 ext. 7950
Location
Lady Eaton College S112
Campus
Peterborough
Job Title
Professor
Job Designation
Director for the Trent Centre For Aging & Society
Accreditation
B.A. (Calgary), Ph.D. (McGill)
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Professor Sally Chivers
Home Department
English Literature
Gender & Social Justice
Program Affiliation
Educational Studies M.Ed.
English (Public Texts) M.A.
Gender & Social Justice (Co-op Available)
Cultural Studies Ph.D.
Cultural Studies M.A.
Canadian Studies Ph.D.
Areas of Expertise
Aging
Film
Gender and Culture
Storytelling
Friendship
Publications
“Survival of the Fittest: CanLit and Disability.” The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. Edited by Cynthia Sugars, Oxford University Press. (forthcoming 2015)
“Home Pages: Domesticity and Duplicity in Images of Architecture for Ageing.” With AnnMarie Adams. Seachange (2013): 81–102.2013
“Seeing the Apricot: A Disability Perspective on Alzheimer’s in Lee Chang Dong’s Poetry” Different Bodies: Essays on Disability in Film and Television. Edited by Marja Mogk, McFarland & Company, 65-74
“Care, Culture, and Creativity: A Disability Perspective on Long-Term Care” in Troubling Care: Critical Perspectives on Research and Practices, edited by Pat Armstrong and Susan Braedley, Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 47-58 2013
“Reimagining Care: Images of Aging and Creativity in House Calls and A Year at Sherbrooke.” International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 7.2: 53-71, 2012
The Silvering Screen: Old Age and Disability in Cinema, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011
Languages Spoken
English
Areas of Research

Disability and Age Studies, mainly connected with Cinema, Literature, TV, and other Media; Crip Culture; Architecture, Literature, and Film; Promising Practices for Long-Term Residential Care, especially creativity and culture; Digital Storytelling; Feminism; Canadian Literature; Activist Art; Austerity.

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Media Preferences
Print
Radio
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