Department of Women's and Gender Studies
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Blood-Red Relations in and Out of Place: Women's Self-Harm and Supernatural Crime in the Moth Diaries
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2022)In Canadian filmmaker Mary Harron’s The Moth Diaries (a Canadian/American/Irish co-production), exploring adolescent girls’ friendships and self-harm in a boarding school setting, blood is out of place. It drips from the ... -
Narrative Skin Repair: Bearing Witness to Mediatized Representations of Self-Harm
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) -
The Art of Public Mourning: An Introduction
(University of Alberta Press, 2017) -
Introduction. Enfolded: Skin, Culture and Psychoanalysis
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) -
Racial Grief and Melancholic Agency
(The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009)This paper reflects on how the relationship between embodiment and agency might be illuminated through developments in psychoanalytic theory on racialization and racism. A recent interdisciplinary study by Anne Anlin Cheng ... -
'War-on-terror' Frames of Remembrance: The 1985 Air India Bombings After 9/11
(University of Toronto Press, 2012)This paper critically analyzes Canadian filmmaker Sturla Gunnarsson’s documentary Air India 182 in light of recent official efforts to remember and redress the 1985 Air India bombings. The author argues that the film, in ... -
Canada 150: Exhibiting National Memory at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-04-19)This paper features an analysis of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) and its showcase for ‘Canada 150’, the sesquicentennial anniversary of Canadian Confederation. Particular attention is paid to how the Museum ... -
‘An Amazing Gift’? Memory Entrepreneurship, Settler Colonialism and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
(Sage Journals, 2019-04-22)Drawing on research undertaken at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, this article considers the role of memory entrepreneurship in the museum’s historic launch and in a sampling of its content, social media posts, points ... -
Excitable speech: Judith Butler, Mae West and sexual innuendo
(Springer, 2001-04)Working with Judith Butler's Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative, this essay pursues a series of questions on the performativity of speech acts, using sexual innuendo as an example. As performed by the provocative ... -
Appetizing loss: Anorexia as an experiment in living
(Taylor & Francis, 2006-08-21)This paper turns upside-down the commonly held assumption that anorexia nervosa is inherently destructive or counter-productive. The author delves beneath the façade of anorexia’s main symptom, self-starvation, to explore ... -
Remembering the Air India disaster: Memorial and counter-memorial
(Taylor & Francis, 2009-04-20) -
Introduction: Caring for Difficult Knowledge--Prospects for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-06-15) -
Hope Without Consolation: Prospects for Critical Learning at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-06-15) -
Narrative Skin Repair: Bearing Witness to Representations of Self-Harm
(Department of English and Writing Studies, Western University, London, Ontario, 2011-01-23) -
Remember Me Nought: The 1985 Cultural "Nachträglichkeit"
(York University, 2010)This paper engages with the politics of remembering and forgetting that surround the unsettled history of the 1985 Air India bombings. In particular, I use the concepts Nachträglichkeit and "affective recircuitry" to ...