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Abdel-Shehid, Gamal
Ph.D. (York), Associate Professor (Arts)
Research Interests: Sport and social inequality, colonialism, decolonzation and the psyche.
Select publications:
- Out of Left Field: Sport Inequality and Culture (with Nathan Kalman-Lamb) Toronto: Between the Lines, 2009.
- Who Da’ Man: Black Masculinities and Sport in Canada. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2005.
Grad Courses taught: Frantz Fanon
Contact: gamal@yorku.ca. Director, Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought
S712 Ross Building 416 736 2100 x 77402
Antze, Paul G
BA (Antioch), MA, PhD (Chicago), Associate Professor (Social Sciences).
Research Interests: Symbolic and medical anthropology, psychoanalysis, mental illness, narrative theory, theories of identity, trauma, memory and dissociation, cultural aspects of addiction.
Select Publications:
- “On the Pragmatics of Empathy in the Neurodiversity Movement” in M. Lambek ed., Culture, Language and the Ethics of Everyday Life (forthcoming)
- “Dis-Ordered Communities: How Madness Means” Poiesis:
Journal of Expressive Arts and Communication, 7,1, 2005
Illness and Irony: On the Ambiguity of Suffering in Culture (co-edited with Michael Lambek). New York: Berghahn, 2004 - “Illness as Irony in Psychoanalysis.” Social Analysis 47, 2, 2004
- “The Other Inside: Memory as Metaphor in Psychoanalysis.” In S. Radstone and K. Hodgkin, eds., Regimes of Memory. London: Routledge, 2003
- “Dissociative Mimesis: Multiple Personality as Cultural Commentary.” Poesis: Journal of Expressive Arts and Communication, 1, 1, 1999.
- Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory (co-edited with Michael Lambek). New York: Routledge, 1996.
Grad Courses Taught: Interpreting Freud
Contact: pantze@yorku.ca
128 McLaughlin College
416 736 2100 x 77094 | Website: http://www.arts.yorku.ca/sosc/heso/faculty/paulantze.html
http://www.expressiveartsandsocialchange.org/faculty-paul.html
Balfour, Ian
BA (York), MA, PhD (Toronto), PhD (Yale), Associate Professor (English)
Research Interests: British and German Romantic poetry and prose, contemporary theory and criticism, the sublime, popular culture, Walter Benjamin, 18th- century poetry and philosophy.
Contact: ibalfour@yorku.ca
258 Winters 416 736 2100 x 77463 | Website: http://www.arts.yorku.ca/english/people/faculty/balfour.html
Bannerji, Himani
MA, Ph.D. (Toronto), Professor (Arts)
Research Interests: Marxist sociology, cultural Studies, Third World sociology,
women and development, colonial and post-colonial social and political formations, feminist theory and its relations to race and class, immigrant women in Canada, culture and politics.
Contact: himanib@yorku.ca
2104 Vari Hall 416 736 2100 x 77993 | Website: http://www.arts.yorku.ca/soci/facstaff/people/bannerji.html
Bell, Shannon
BA (Winnipeg), MA, PhD (York), Associate Professor (Political Science)
Research interests: Speed theory, fast feminism, sexual politics, post contemporary theory, cyber politics, violent philosophy.
Select Publications:
- Reading, Writing and Rewriting the Prostitute Body (Indiana University Press 1994; Japanese trans.2000)
- Whore Carnival (Autonomedia/Semiotext 1995)
- Bad Attitude/s on Trial [co-authored with Brenda Cossman, Lise Gotell, and Becki Ross] (University of Toronto Press, 1997)
- Fast Feminism (Autonomedia/Semiotext 2004).
Grad Courses Taught: The Politics of Identity, Thinking Power and Violence
Contact: shanbell@yorku.ca
S644 Ross 416 736 2100 x 88826 | Website: http://www.arts.yorku.ca/politics/shanbell/
Berland, Jody
Ph.D. (York), Associate Professor (Arts)
Research Interests: Cultural/Environmental Studies; Contemporary Cultural Studies/Cultural Theory; Socio-Cultural Studies of Science and Technology; Canadian Communication Theory; Music and Technology
Select Publications:
- North of Empire: Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.
- “Animal And/as Medium: Symbolic Work in Communicative Regimes.” Global South, Vol 1 No 3, Spring 2009, 42-65. Journal article.
- “The Politics of the Exasperated: Arts and Culture in Canada.” ESC: English Studies in Canada, Vol, 33 No 3, 2009, 24-30. Journal article
- Communicating Animals: Desire and Damage in Digital Regimes. Global South (in press) Fall 2008.
- “Cat and Mouse: Iconographies of Nature and Desire,” Cultural Studies, Vol. 22 No 2, Spring 2008.
- “Spatial Narratives in the Canadian Imaginary,” New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory Politics. No. 57: Space and Text, 2005/6, 39-55.
Grad Courses Taught: Culture and Modernity, Culture and Technology
Contact: jberland@yorku.ca
232 Vanier 416 736 2100 x 77393 | website: http://www.arts.yorku.ca/huma/jberland/
Boon, Marcus
MA, PhD (New York), Associate Professor (English)
Research Interests: Contemporary literature, cultural studies and theory, popular and experimental music, religion and culture, theories of consciousness.
Select Publications:
- In Praise of Copying. Harvard University Press, 2010
- The Road of Excess: A history of writers on drugs. Harvard University Press, 2002.
Contact: mboon@yorku.ca
347 Strong, 416 736 2100 x 40675 | Website: http://marcusboon.com/about
http://www.arts.yorku.ca/english/people/faculty/MarcusBoon.html
Breaugh, Martin
B.A. (University of Ottawa), M.A. (University of Ottawa), D.E.A. (Université de Paris VII – Denis-Diderot), Ph.D. (Université de Paris VII – Denis-Diderot), Assistant Professor (Political Science).
Research Interests: History of Political Thought, Political Freedom and Emancipation, Contemporary French Political Theory, Democratic Theory, Plebeian Politics.
Contact: mbreaugh@yorku.ca
S652 Ross 416 736 2100 x 30080 | Website: http://www.yorku.ca/laps/pols/MartinBreaugh.html
Britzman, Deborah
BA, M.Ed, EdD, University of Massachusetts, Distinguished Research Professor (Education).
Research Interests: Psychoanalysis: Theory, clinical practice, and history of; Controversies in curriculum theory; critical theory and literary studies; psychology of teaching and learning
Select Publications:
- Britzman, D. (2009). The Very Thought of Education: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Professions. Albany: State University of New York Press.
- Britzman, D. (2006). Novel Education: Psychoanalytic Studies of Learning and Not Learning.NY: Peter Lang Press.
- Britzman, D. (2003). After-Education: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning. Albany: State University of New York Press.
- Britzman, D. (2003). Practice Makes Practice: A Critical Study of Learning to Teach, Revised Edition. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Grad Courses Taught: Psychoanalytic Theory and Pedagogy, Pedagogy and Social Difference
Contact: britzman@edu.yorku.ca
229 Winters College
416-736-2100 x 88793 | Website: http://edu.apps01.yorku.ca/profiles/main/britzman-deborah/1
Brooke, Stephen
BA, MA, PhD (Oxford), Associate Professor (History)
Research Interests: Gender, sexuality, and visual culture in the context of 20th century British society.
Select Publications:
- Articulating the nation: British Conservatism, Race and the 1988 Education Act', Left History 14 (2010), 9-30.
- ‘The Sphere of Sexual Politics: The Abortion Law Reform Association, 1930s to 1960s’ in Nick Crowson, Matthew Hilton and James McKay (editors), NGOs in Contemporary Britain: Non-State Actors in Society and Politics Since 1945. London: Palgrave, 2009 ‘Class and Gender’ in Francesca Carnevali and Julie-Marie Strange (editors), 20th Century Britain. London: Longman, 2007. Review of ‘Queer London’ in 32 Social History (February 2007)
- 'Bodies, Sexuality and the "Modernisation" of the British Working Classes, 1920s to 1960s', International Labor and Working-Class History 69 (Spring 2006), 104-122
- 'War and the Nude: the Photography of Bill Brandt in the 1940s', Journal of British Studies 45 (2006), 118-138
Contact: sjbrooke@yorku.ca
2188 Vari Hall, 416 736 2100 x 66980 | Website: http://www.yorku.ca/uhistory/faculty/cv/brooke.htm
Buturovic, Amila
MA, PhD (Mcgill), Associate Professor (Humanities)
Research Interests: Islamic studies, literature, identity/representation, nationalism, Arabic literature, Balkan studies, Ottoman studies
Select Publications:
- 2002 Stone Speaker: Medieval Tombstones, Landscape, and Bosnian Identity in the Poetry of Mak Dizdar. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press.
- 2003 “The Shadow Play in Mamlûk Egypt: The Genre and Its Implications.” Mamluk Studies Review 7.
- 2001 “Macaronic Verse in Ottoman Bosnia and the Incitement to Multivocality.” Forum Bosnae 1.
- 2000 “‘Only Women and Writing Can Save Us from Death': Erotic Empowering in the Poetry of Nizâr Qabbâni.” Tradition, Modernity and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature. Ed. K Abdel-Malek and W. Hallaq. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
Contact: amilab@yorku.ca
222 Vanier, 416 736 2100 x 77054 | Website: http://www.arts.yorku.ca/huma/amilab/
Canefe, Nergis
BA, MA, PhD (York), Associate Professor (Political Science).
Research Interests: Crimes against humanity, Muslim minorities and comparative studies of religious minorities in the West. Diaporas as well as the making of the modern Middle East.
Select Publications:
- 2007 The Jewish Diaspora as a Paradigm: Politics, Religion and Belonging. Edited volume in collaboration with William Safran, Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado (forthcoming, Edwin Mellen Publishers)
- 2006 (Sole Author) Milliyetcilik, Kimlik ve Aidiyet [Nationalism, Identity and Belonging], Istanbul: Bilgi University Publishing House.
- 2006 “Ottoman Jews or Turkish non-Muslims: Characters in Search of an Author.” In Nergis Canefe and William Safran, eds. The Jewish Diaspora as a Paradigm.
- 2006 “Do Muslims in Canada constitute a diaspora? An Exercise in Critical Citizenship Theory” in Diasporas and Opportunity Structures. University of Nevada Press.
- 2005 “Ethics of Pseudo-Humanitarian Intervention in Macedonia: the Case that Fits.” In Charles Sampford and David Shugarman, eds., Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention. London: Routledge.
Grad Courses Taught: The Politics of Utopia, Diasporas, The Making of the Middle East
Contact: ncanefe@osgoode.yorku.ca
331 York Lanes 416 736 5265, 416 732 2100 x 20556 | Website: http://www.arts.yorku.ca/politics/ncanefe/index.html
Caruana, John
B.A. (McGill); M.A. (York); Ph.D. Social and Political Thought (York), Assistant Professor (Communication and Culture, Philosophy at Ryerson)
Research Interests: Philosophy and film, post-structuralism, Frankfurt School, contemporary European thought, psychoanalysis, religion and culture.
Select Publications:
- “Cinematic Epiphanies: Eric Rohmer and the Transcendence of the Ordinary,” in Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema, ed. K. R. Morefield (Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008).
- "Kieslowski and Kiarostami: A Metaphysical Cinema," in After Kieslowski: The Legacy of Krzysztof Kieslowski, ed. S. Woodward (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008).
- "The Drama of Being: Levinas and the History of Philosophy," Continental Philosophy Review 40:3 (2007), 251-273.
- "'Not Ethics, Not Ethics Alone, but the Holy': Levinas on Ethics and Holiness," Journal of Religious Ethics 34:4 (2006), 561-583.
- "Levinas," in Essentials of Philosophy and Ethics, ed. M. Cohen (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006)
- "Levinas's Critique of the Sacred," International Philosophical Quarterly 42: 4 (2002), 519-534.
- "The Catastrophic 'Site and Non-Site' of Proximity: Redeeming the Disaster of Being,"International Studies in Philosophy 30:1 (1998), 33-46.
- "Mourning and Mimesis: The Freudian Ethics of Theodor Adorno," Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis 3:2 (1996), 89-108.
Grad Courses Taught: Theorizing the Sacred in Contemporary Philosophy and Cinema
Contact: jcaruana@ryerson.ca
416 979 5000 x 7414 | Website: http://www.yorku.ca/gradcmct/profiles/faculty/Caruana.html
http://www.ryerson.ca/~jcaruana/
Carveth, Donald
BA, MA, Ph.D. (Toronto), Professor (Sociology at Glendon)
Research Interests: Psychoanalysis and social theory, the existential critique of Freud, group psychology (Freud, Klein, Bion), psychoanalysis and religion.
Select Publications:
- "Psychoanalytic Conceptions of the Passions". In Freud and the Passions, ed. J. O'Neill. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, ch. 2., pp. 25-51 (1996).
- Carveth, D.L. & Naomi Gold (2000). "The Preoedipalizing of Klein in (North) America: Ridley Scott's Alien Re-analyzed." PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. Vol. 3 (1999).
- Carveth, D.L. (2005). “Is the Medium the Message in Psychoanalysis?” Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse 13, 2 (Winter 2005): 282-296.
- “Self-Punishment as Guilt Evasion: Theoretical Issues.” Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse 14, 2 (Fall 2006): 172-96.
Grad Courses Taught: The Existentialist Critique of Freud
Contact: dcarveth@yorku.ca
C133 York Hall, Glendon Campus 416 736 2100 x 88378 | Website: http://www.yorku.ca/dcarveth
Code, Lorraine
Research Interests: Epistemology and ethics, feminist philosophy and politics of knowledge, twentieth century French philosophy (Foucault, Beauvoir, Le Doeuff), ecological theory, post-colonial theory
Select Publications:
- 1991: What Can She Know? Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- 1995: Rhetorical Spaces: Essays on (Gendered) Locations. New York: Routledge.
- 2000: "The Perversion of Autonomy and the Subjection of Women: Discourses of Social Advocacy at Century's End". In Catriona Mackenzie and Natalie Stoljar, eds., Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency and the Social Self. New York: Oxford University Press.
- 2000: "Naming, Naturalizing, Normalizing: The Child as Fact and Artefact". In Patricia Miller and Elin Scholnik, eds., Feminist Developmental Psychology. New York: Routledge, in press
- 1998."Voice and Voicelessness: A Modest Proposal?" In Janet Kourany, ed., Philosophy in a Different Voice. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Grad Courses Taught: Topics in Feminist Philosophy, New Directions in Theory of Knowledge
Contact: codelb@yorku.ca
Ross 442S, 416 736 2100 x 77593 | Website: http://www.arts.yorku.ca/phil/faculty/code.html
Comninel, George
BA (Cornell), MA, PhD (York), Associate Professor (Political Science)
Research Interests: Political theory in historical and social context, politics, ideology and class in the French revolution, Marxist theory, revolutions and revolutionary theories, theories of historical state formation and economic development
Select Publications:
- Rethinking the French Revolution: Marxism and the Revisionist Challenge, (London: Verso Books, 1987).
- “Historical Materialist Sociology and Revolutions.” In Gerard Delanty and Engin Isin, (eds.), Handbook of Historical Sociology, London: Sage, 2003.
- “Revolution in History: The Communist Manifesto in Context.” In Douglas Moggach and Paul Leduc Browne (eds.), The Revolutions of 1848: A Contested Legacy, Ottawa: University of Ottawa, 2000.
- “Marx’s Context.” History of Political Thought, vol. XXI, n. 3, Autumn 2000.
“English Feudalism and the Origins of Capitalism.” Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 27, n. 4, July 2000.
Grad Courses Taught: Theory and Practice of the State in Historical Perspective
Contact: comminel@yorku.ca
Ross S669 416 732 2100 x 20266 or x 33197 | Website: http://www.arts.yorku.ca/politics/comninel/index.html
Coombe, Rosemary
BA, LLB, JSM, JSD (Stanford), Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Cultural Studies, Professor (Communication and Culture, Osgoode Law)
Research Interests: Intellectual property, commodification of culture, informational capitalism, cultural rights, biological diversity, governmentality, modernity, postcolonial theory, transnationalism, politics of tradition.
Select Publications:
- The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation and the Law. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998) 462 pp.
- 2010 "Honing a Critical Cultural Studies of Human Rights" (Special issue on Human Rights) Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 32 page manuscript submitted and accepted; under review.
- 2009 "The Expanding Purview of Cultural Properties and their Politics" 5 Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences 393-412.
- 2006 "Your Second Life? Goodwill and the Performativity of Intellectual Property in Online Digital Gaming" (with Andrew Herman and Lewis Kaye) 20 Cultural Studies 184-210. Reprinted in The New Media and Cybercultures Reader (Wiley Blackwell, 2010).
- 2005 "Protecting Traditional Environmental Knowledge and New Social Movements in the Americas: Intellectual Property, Human Right or Claims to an Alternative Form of Sustainable Development?" 17.1 Florida Journal of International Law 115-135.
Grad Courses Taught: Owning Culture, [Trans] National Identities and their Publics, Persepctives in Communication and Culture, The Politics of Intellectual Property, Human Rights and Development
Contact: rcoombe@yorku.ca
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Creet, Julia
BA, MA, PhD (Santa Cruz), Associate Professor (English)
Research Interests: Women’s literature, historiography, questions of experimental prose, identity, autobiography, and silence.
Contact: creet@yorku.ca
208 Strong College 416 736 5166 | Webiste: http://www.arts.yorku.ca/english/people/faculty/creet.html
Drache, Daniel
BA (Toronto), MA (Queens), Professor (Political Science)
Research Interests: Globalization and the limits of markets, Post-Fordism, trade blocs, industrial policy and the future of work and employment, governing the public domain in the social market and laissez-faire economies, the future of trade blocs, different models of jobs and investment strategies, social policy and social cohesion in the hemisphere.
Select Publications:
- Defiant Publics: The Unprecedented Reach of the Global Citizen, London: Polity Press, 2008). Refereed. June 2008.
- Big Picture Realities: Canada and Mexico at the Crossroads, Daniel Drache, ed. Wilfred Laurier University Press, October 2008. English Edition.
- Borders Matter: Homeland Security and the Search for North America (Fernwood Publishing, 2004)
The Market or the Public Domain: Global Governance and the Asymmetry of Power, ed. (Routledge, 2001).
Health Reform: Public Success, Private Failure, and Terry Sullivan, eds. (Routledge, 1999).
States Against Markets: The Limits of Globalization, and Robert Boyer, eds. (Routledge, 1996).
Grad Courses Taught: Markets, Citizenship, Identity: Emergent Themes in the Globalization Narrative, Global Cultural Flows and Permeable Borders, Post- Fordism
Contact: drache@yorku.ca
Robarts Centre of Canadian Studies, 227 York Lanes 416 736 5415 | Website: http://www.yorku.ca/drache/
Dwyer, John
BA, MA, PhD (UBC), Professor (Humanities).
Research Interests: Scottish Enlightenment, eighteenth-century sentimentalism, modernism, postmodernism.
Select Publications:
- Virtuous Discourse: Sensibility and Community in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland, (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1987 ), 204 pp. Second edition published by Berlinn Ltd, Edinburgh, 2003)
- The Age of the Passions, (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1998) 205 pp.
- Business History: Canada in the Global Community, (Toronto: Captus Press, 1999) 375 pp.
Grad Courses Taught: The Enlightenment Project,
Contact: jdwyer@yorku.ca
237 Vanier College 416 736 2100 x 66983 | website: http://www.yorku.ca/jdwyer/index.htm
Elder, Bruce
MA (Toronto), Adjunct Faculty (Ryerson Communication and Culture)
Research Interests: History and theory of the avant-garde, Canadian cultural studies, modernisms and modernity, avent-garde movement in art and literature of the 20th century.
Select Publications:
- Image and Identity: Reflections on Canadian Film and Culture . Toronto and Waterloo: The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Wilfrid Laurier University, 1988. 494pp. [One of 200 titles selected for “Canadian Studies: A Core Collection.” Choice 35 (Sept. 1997): 71-84.]
- The Body in Film. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1989. 53pp.
- A Body of Vision: Representations of the Body in Recent Film and Poetry . Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University, 1997. 400pp.
- The Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition of Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and Charles Olson. Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1998. 572pp.
Contact: belder@ryerson.ca | Webite: http://www.ryerson.ca/~belder/
Forsyth, James Scott
B.A. (Trent University), M.A. (York University), Ph.D. (York University), Associate Professor (Political Science, Film).
Research Interests: Marxist cultural theory, media and political activism, Hollywood and contemporary imperialism, film history.
Contact: sforsyth@yorku.ca
204 Centre for Film and Theater 416.736.2100 x 20272
