Teaching & Supervision

• Indigenous (First Nations) studies
• Theory (Posthumanism, Semiotics, Poststructuralism, Hermeneutics, History of Theory, Critical Race Theory, Law & Society, Indigenous epistemologies)
• Expressive freedoms in Canada
• Contemporary Canadian poetry, poetics, speculative fiction

Writing Diaspora, Writing Home – An Approach to First Nations Literature (English 491, 2002)

Heidegger, Derrida / Nietzsche, Foucault: Foundations of Modern Theory (English 553, 2003)

The Question of Censorship in Canada since Butler (English 553, 2004)

What is ‘understanding’? Borderlands, Safe-houses and Paths to Freedom/s (Engl 490, 2007) on the prison house of language from Augustine to Cixous

“Terra Nullius” meets “All my relations”: A Comparative Inquiry into “Nature” (Engl 545, 2010)

“Oneself as Another”: Hermeneutics Unbound (Engl 553, 2010)

“The Animal That Therefore I Am”: Man, Animal, Other in Derrida et al. (Engl 491, 2010)

Published dissertations by my doctoral students include:

Christopher Bracken, The Potlatch Papers: A Colonial Case History
(University of Chicago Press, 1997)

Jodey Castricano, Cryptomimesis: The Gothic and Jacques Derrida¹s Ghost Writing  (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003)

Hosea Hirata, Discourses of Seduction: History, Evil, Desire, and Modern Japanese Literature (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 2005)

Susan Knutson, Narrative in the Feminine: Daphne Marlatt and Nicole Brossard (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000)

Peter Mahon, Imagining Joyce and Derrida: Between ‘Finnegan’s Wake’and ‘Glas’ (University of Toronto Press, 2007)

Dawn Thompson, Writing a Politics of Perception: Memory, Holography and Women Writers in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2000)

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