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Ken Seigneurie Website: http://kseigneurie.com/
Ken Seigneurie researches modern Arabic, French and British fiction, literary theory and the history of humanist thought . His edited volume, Crisis and Memory: The Representation of Space in Modern Levantine Narrative, was published in 2003. Articles and chapters on Arabic Literature include:
Dr Seigneurie's most recent book, Standing by the Ruins: Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanese Culture, appeared in 2011 from Fordham University Press. |
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Sasha Colby (On Leave)
Associate Professor BA (University of Victoria), MA (University of Victoria), PhD (University of Sussex) Tel: 778 782-7498 Office: SUR 5180 Email: scolby@sfu.ca Sasha Colby teaches literature, theory, modernist art, and performance. She is author of Stratified Modernism: The Poetics of Excavation from Gautier to Olson (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009), an interdisciplinary study about modernist literature and archaeology 1850-1950. Sasha has written six plays for community based performance and has toured her literary play about modernist poet Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) internationally. Her current work unites traditional scholarship with artistic inquiry by tracing the role of rehearsal and performance practices in the work of modernist poets. Read Sasha Colby's article "The Literary Archaeologies of Théophile Gautier", as published in Comparative Literature and Culture. |
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Melek Ortabasi (On Leave)
Associate Professor
BA (University of California, Berkeley), MA, PhD (University of Washington)
Tel: 778 782-8660 Office: SUR 5184 Email: mso1@sfu.ca
Melek Ortabasi teaches modern literature, film, and the theory and practice of translation; s he specializes in Japanese literature and culture. Her research interests include cultural studies, comparative folklore studies, children’s literature, and film and popular culture in contemporary Japan. Some of Ortabasi's articles have appeared in the books Japanese Visual Culture, A Century of Popular Culture in Japan, and the Encyclopedia of Life Writing. Her co-edited anthology of literary translations, The Modern Murasaki: Women Writers of Meiji Japan, was published by the University of Columbia Press in 2006. Her book The Undiscovered Country: Text, Translation and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita Kunio is forthcoming from Harvard University Asia Center. Inspired by Yanagita’s interest in children and education, a topic she examines in her book, she is starting a new project on children’s literature and translation.
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Erin Schlumpf Limited Term Lecturer BA (Dartmouth College); MA, PhD (Harvard University) Tel: 778 782-9595 Office: SUR 5188 Email: erin_schlumpf@sfu.ca Erin Schlumpf's current research examines national trauma and the rise of postmodernist aesthetics in France and China. She has extensive experience teaching and working in comparative and world literatures and with modern texts and languages of diverse regions, and brings a great enthusiasm for the global, interdisciplinary study of literary and filmic cultures from ancient through contemporary times. |
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Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani
Assistant Professor
BA, MA, PhD (University of California, Berkley) Tel: 778 782-8761 Office: SUR 5174 Email: azadeh_yamini-hamedani@sfu.ca Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani's teaching interests involve interconnections of literature and philosophy, with particular emphasis on the semiotics of translation. Her current research includes Goethe's conception of World Literature in light of his reading of Hafez. She also explores Nietzsche's understanding of Zoroastrianism as it appears in his notations and in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. |
Gordan Djurdjevic
BA (University of Belgrade); MA (University of British Columbia); PhD (University of British Columbia)
Tel: TBC, Office: SUR TBC
Email: gdjurdje@sfu.ca
Gordan Djurdjevic is the author of Masters of Magical Powers: The N?th Yogis in the Light of Esoteric Notions (Saarbrücken: Verlag Dr Müller, 2008) and India and the Occult: The Influence of South Asian Spirituality on Western Esoteric Tradition (London: Equinox, forthcoming). His latest obsession is related to the Lacanian notion that reality is structured like fiction.
David Gaertner
BA (University of British Columbia), MA (University of Manitoba), PhD (Simon Fraser University)
Tel: TBC, Office: SUR TBC
Email: drg3@sfu.ca
David Gaertner researches Canadian literature, Aboriginal literatures and literary theory with a particular focus on the aesthetics and politics of reconciliation. He has published essays in Bioethical Inquiry; Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society and English Studies in Canada and shared his research with international audiences, including presentations at the Global Reconciliation Summit in Amman, Jordan. With co-editor Jason Starnes, David recently published Here Comes the Neighbourhood a collection of poetry, essays and photography that develop the Freudian notion of “the neighbour” in relation to Vancouver’s vulnerable communities. He is currently working on his first book, Neoliberal Apologies: The Specious Politics of Colonial Reconciliation.
John Whatley
BA (Chapman University, California), MA, PhD (Simon Fraser)
Tel: (778) 782-4354/8138, Office: TBC
Email: whatley@sfu.ca
Web: www.sfu.ca/~whatley
Dr. Whatley is Academic Program Director at the Centre for Online and Distance Education at Simon Fraser University. He is an Associate Member of the Department of English and the School of Criminology. In Literature his interests are Romantic & Gothic Literature, Crime & Literature, the literary essay, and the relation between the social sciences and literary criticism. He has published on P.B. Shelley and recent publications include the entries on gothic crime and on gothic cults in the Wiley-Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of the Gothic (2012); he has an article forthcoming in Companion to American Gothic Literature "Gothic Self Fashioning in Gibson's 'Neuromancer': Identity, Improvisation & Cyberspace".