Students
I have supervised graduate and post-graduate students working on a range of topics in contemporary literature, culture and theory.
Post-Doctoral
- Dr. Markus Heide, Feodor Lynen Fellowship Program, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at McMaster University: Kosmospolitismus und die Literatur der frühen Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika (1770-1830) (2007-2010)
- Dr. Terri Tomsky, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Alberta: Abject Cosmopolitans: Global Relations in the Age of Terror (2010-2012)
Doctoral
- Kristen Downey (McMaster), Fantasy as Mass Deception: Harlequin Presents and the Formation of Sexual Identity, 2005
- Julian Holland (McMaster), Dictatorship of the Object: Four Cultural Studies in Marxism, 2006
- Don Moore (McMaster), Ethics in Empire: The Ethical Rhetoric of 9/11, 2008
- Tim Kaposy (McMaster), Ensembles of Necessity: A Spatial History of Planetarity, 2008
- Yoo Hyeok Lee (McMaster), Decolonizing Imagination: Colonial History, Postcolonial Representation and Literature, 2009
- Max Haiven (McMaster), Finance as Capital’s Imagination, 2010
- Andrew Pendakis (McMaster), The Dialectics of Middleness: A Political Ontology of the Radical Center, Fall 2010
- Evan Mauro (McMaster), The Social Logic of Sensation: Modernist Literature, Science and Film, 1880-1940, Fall 2010
- Justin Sully (McMaster), The Demographic Conjuncture: Cinema and the Projection of Population Crisis, Fall 2010
- Sarah Blacker (U of Alberta), On Science as Affirmative Culture: Discourses of Nature and Crisis in the Biotech Industry, in progress
- Matt MacLellan (U of Alberta), The Contradictions of Post-Industrial Culture: Cognitive Labour, Immaterial Production, and the Force of Culture in the Creative Industry, in progress
- Brett Bellamy (U of Alberta), Death in the Denouement: Microcosms of Crisis and Post-Apocalyptic Anomie as American National Allegory, in progress
- Dan Harvey (U of Alberta), Feral Zones: Theorizing Global Slums as States of Exception, in progress
Masters
- Matt Kavanaugh (English), Learning from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 2000
- Dana Hansen (English), ‘A Love-Song to Our Mongrel Selves’: Exile, Dislocation and the Emergence of the Cosmopolitan Subject in the Writing of Salman Rushdie, 2002
- Stéphanie Prévot (English), ‘I had to look into myself to see the world’: A Study of Paul Auster’s Realism, 2003
- Jason Demers (English), Mapping the (Con)textual Plight of Man: The Temporal and Spatial Logics of Postmodern Masculinity, 2003
- Aaron Ellingson (English), Figuring the Universal: Building Politics in Globality, 2004
- Candida Hadley (Globalization Studies), Astrobiology, Globalization and the Myth of Technological Utopianism, 2005
- Max Haiven (Globalization Studies), Creativity, Globalization, and Empire, 2005
- Lindsay Nielsen (Cultural Studies), Global Vancouver: Spatial and Temporal Contestations in an Emerging Global City, 2007
- Raffaella Tardioli (Cultural Studies), Italianitá and the Muslim Other: Islam, Identity and the Politics of Inclusion in Italy, 2008
- Adrienne Havercroft (Cultural Studies), Figuring Poverty through the Regent Park Revitalization Project: Social Housing and the Formation of Citizen-Subjects, 2008
- Matt MacLellan (Cultural Studies), The Exploding Subject: Sex, Capital and the Logics of Subjectivity, 2008
- Ana Candia (Globalization Studies), The Disappeared Are Floating: Applications of Argentine Third Cinema in the Global Contemporary World Order, 2008
- Simon Orpana (Cultural Studies), Surfing the City: Skateboarding as the Metaphorical Transformation of the Everyday, 2009
- Amanda Delorey (Cultural Studies), Public and Private: The Biopolitical Body Walking the City, 2009
- Jeff Diamanti (English), How “We” Build Today: Culture, Commerce and Place in Louisville’s Museum Plaza, 2010
- Emily Murphy (English), The Collaborative Periodical: Shifting the Modernist Collective with Surrealism and Georges Bataille, 2010
- Maica Murphy (English), The Politics of Numbers in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, 2010
External Examiner
I’ve acted as an external examiner for MA and PhD theses in Communications, Education, English, History, Philosophy, Social and Political Thought, and Women’s Studies, at McMaster University (1999, 2001), University of Western Ontario (2001), OISE/University of Toronto (2002), York University (2003, 2005), University of Alberta (2005), University of Illinois-Chicago (2008), Brock University (2008), McGill University (2009, 2009) and University of Calgary (2010).