Students
I have supervised graduate and postdoctoral students working on a range of topics in contemporary literature, culture and theory.
Current Doctoral Students
- Dan Harvey, The Entrepreneurial Subject, After Foucault: On the Politics and Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century Enterprise Culture, 2009-
- Adam Carlson, Energy Infrastructure and the Canadian End of History, 2010-
- Valerie Savard, Technologized Disparity: Embodied Class in Contemporary Science Fiction, 2011-
- David Janzen, Historical Rupture in Atonal Times: Politics and Temporalities of Crisis, Event, and Rhythm, 2011-
- Kurt Pabst, The Imbroglio of Capital: A Critique of Sustainable Development and the End of Growth Scenario, 2011-
- Sean O’Brien, Precarious Positions: Precarity in Contemporary North American Literature and Culture, 2012-
- Jordan Kinder, Liquid Ethics: Sustainability and the Petrocultural Narrative of Ethical Capitalism in a Canadian Context, 2014-
- Lucie Stepanik. From Space of Freedom to Daily Routine: Reading the Social Construction of Automobility in Contemporary American Literature, 2015-
Postdoctoral Fellows and Visiting Scholars
- Dr. Markus Heide, Feodor Lynen Fellowship Program, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Kosmospolitismus und die Literatur der frühen Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika (1770-1830) (2007-2010)
- 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)
- Dr. Danijela Majstorovic, Canada Research Chair Postdoctoral Fellow: The Balkans as Semi-Periphery: On Postcolonial Students and Former Yugoslavia (2013-2014)
- Dr. Lynn Badia, Canada Research Chair SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow and Banting Postdoctoral Fellow: Imagining Free Energy: Fantasies, Utopias, and Critiques of America (2014-2015; 2015-2017)
- Dr. Sina Rahmani, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship: Boat People: Containerization, Refugees, and Transnational Anglophone Fiction (2014-2016)
- Anne Chen, Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellow, Mapping the Northern Gateway Pipeline Through Collective Storytelling and Citizen Science (2014-2015)
- Dr. Simon Orpana, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship: The Zombie Imaginary: The Corporeal Turn and Digital Economies in Crisis (2015-2017)
- Dr. Sarah Smith, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow: Commodity Culture: UNESCO, Heritage and the Creation of International Cultural Policy (2016-2018)
- Trailer Jack Stands from Ideal Warehouse Innovations
- Luxe Medica
- Coronation Construction
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, 2013), 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), University of Calgary (2010) and Queen’s University (2012).