Students
I have supervised graduate and post-doctoral students working on a range of topics in contemporary literature, culture and theory.
Current Post-Doctoral Students
- Dr. Terri Tomsky, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship: Abject Cosmopolitans: Global Relations in the Age of Terror (2010-2012)
- Dr. André Glaser, Canadian Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada): Visual Culture and the Techno-Consumer (2011-2012)
- Dr. Sinem Yazicioglu, Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Government of Turkey: Poetics and Politics of Truth in Contemporary North American Fiction (2011-2012)
Current Doctoral Students
- Evan Mauro (McMaster), Fables of Regeneration: Modernism, Biopolitics, Reproduction, 2011
- Sarah Blacker, On Private and Public Heath: Personalized Medicine, Epidemiology, and Techno-Liberalism, in progress
- Matthew MacLellan, Toward a Post-Industrial Aesthetic: On the Force of Culture in the Informational Age, in progress
- Brent Bellamy, Residues of Now: A Critique of Contemporary US Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction, 2009-
- Dan Harvey, Feral Zones: Global Slums Beyond the Logic of Exception, 2009-
- Jeff Diamanti, How We Build Today: Culture, Commerce and Place in the New Century, 2010-
- Adam Carlson, On Tolerance: Behaving Well from Liberalism to Neoliberalism, 2010-
- Shama Rangwala, Beyond Adaptation: Interwar Prose Fiction and the Cinematization of Text, 2010-.
- Stephan Christianson, Managing the Surplus: A Critical Analysis of Alberta’s Plan to End Homelessness, 2011-
- Valerie Savard, The Dystopian University: Interrogating the Condition of the Humanities in Canada, 2011-
- David Janzen, Reclaiming the Subject of Rights: Equality and the Politics of Culture in Central American Indigenous Movements, 2011-
- Kurt Pabst, The Long March to the Dismal Science: On Money and the Economic Turn, 2011-
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).