Graduate academic calendar 2012 - 2013 - Trent University

GRADUATE PROGRAMS Theory, Culture & Politics
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E. D. Ermarth, B.A. (Carleton College), M.A. (California-Berkeley), Ph.D. (Chicago), cultural theory
and feminist practice, the shift from modernity to postmodernity and its implications for definitions of
individuality and agency and for historical explanation.
J. Fekete, (Emeritus), M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (Cambridge), literary and cultural theory, Anglo-American
and European, esp. modern and post-modern, science fiction, the technological imaginary, moral
panic, biopolitics.
V. Hollinger, M.Ed. (Newcastle), M.A., Ph.D. (Concordia), queer and feminist speculative fiction,
feminist theory, performance theory, post-modern theatre.
I. Junyk, B.A. (Western Ontario), M.A. (Queen’s), Ph.D. (Chicago), modernism and the avant-garde,
classicism and myth, opera/trauma/ memory and history, the contemporary novel.
A. O’Connor, B.A. (Trinity College, Dublin), M.A., Ph.D. (York), subcultures, anarchism and the “antiglobalization”
movement, sociology of culture, mass media, intellectual fields, Latin American studies.
D. Panagia, B.A. (Manitoba), M.Litt. (Oxford), M.A., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), post-structuralism,
aesthetics, political thought, literary theory, historiography and rhetoric.
J. Penney, B.A., M.A. (Alberta), Ph.D. (Duke), psychoanalysis, queer theory, postcolonial theory, Lacan,
Marx.
D. Torgerson, B.A. (California-Berkeley), M.E.S. (York), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), critical theory, political
action, public spheres, policy discourse, green political thought, cultural politics.
A. L. Wernick, (Emeritus), M.A. (Cambridge), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), modern and post-modern social
and cultural theory, religion, and post-commodification and culture.
English Literature
R. Dellamora, (Emeritus), M.A. (Cambridge), Ph.D. (Yale), Victorian studies, aestheticism and
decadence, literature/visual arts/opera in relation to gender and sexuality, cultural construction of
masculinities, critical theory (Foucault, Barthes and Derrida).
C. Eddy, M.A. (Western Ontario), Ph.D. (Toronto), theories of the body and subjectivity; inscriptions
of gender and race; French feminism.
J. Fekete, (Emeritus), M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (Cambridge), literary and cultural theory, Anglo-American
and European, esp. modern and post-modern, science fiction, the technological imaginary, moral
panic, biopolitics.
Environmental & Resource Science/Studies
D. G. Holdsworth, M.Sc. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Western Ontario), environmental thought/
environmental ethics, science and energy policy, risk assessment/analysis, scientific practice and
political culture, algebraic logic and the foundations of quantum theory, non-standard logic and
category theory.
Philosophy
E. Angelova, M.A. (Sofia University, Bulgaria), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), 20th-century continental
philosophy (Heidegger, Derrida, French feminist theory) and Kant; 20th-century continental
philosophy, poststructuralist ethics.
C. V. Boundas, (Emeritus), M.A., Ph.D. (Purdue), Deleuze’s philosophy, theory of difference,
postmodernism, post-structuralism, Desire, Minoritarian literature, Nomadism, Schizoanalysis.
Politics
F. Baban, M.A. (Bogazici), Ph.D. (Carleton), global and comparative politics, globalization theory
and critical theories of international relations, focus on the Middle East and the European Union.
N. Changfoot, B.A. (York), M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (York), Canadian politics, political theory, women
and politics, cultural citizenship, social movements, Hegel and feminist thought.
E. Stavro, M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), feminist theory, contemporary French philosophy, reproductive
technology.
D. Torgerson, B.A. (California-Berkeley), M.E.S. (York), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), critical theory, political
action, public spheres, policy discourse, green political thought, cultural politics.