L-709, R. D. Parker Building

(705) 675-1151 ext. 4344

mgreedharry@laurentian.ca

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am at the start of a new research project focusing on how the field of postcolonial studies has engendered (or failed to engender) specifically postcolonial pedagogies. Postcolonial studies are firmly located in literary departments and literary pedagogical practices, but this is somewhat at odds with the orientation towards the social (and social science) in postcolonial approaches. I am interested in how and in what ways this disciplinary tension jams or opens up the potential of postcolonial theories to do their political and ethical work.

Additional Research Interests

My research interests include postcolonial theory; autobiography (especially the problem of describing and acting ethically); the politics and practices of interdisciplinary scholarship (especially between history and literature); the relevance of postcolonial analysis to popular cultural forms; and critical histories of race.

Areas of Teaching and Supervision

My main teaching fields are postcolonial literature and literary theory. I welcome supervision of projects that include some aspect of my research interests. For the year 2010-11 I would be particularly interested in projects that focus on postcolonial analysis of popular cultural forms (especially television or genre fiction).    

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS AND RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS

“Postcolonial Theory” and “Social Constructionism.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory.  Ed. Robert Eaglestone. Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming 2010.

Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis: From Uneasy Engagements to Effective Critique. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

‘Policing the postcolonial classroom; the institutional limits of teaching anti-colonialism’

Race-making and the state: between postracial neoliberalism and racialized terrorism, The 10th Annual R.A.C.E. Critical Race and Anti-Colonial Studies Conference, University of Alberta, Canada forthcoming October 2-4, 2010.

‘Managing Postcolonialism: Postcolonial Theory Meets Organization’ (with Pasi Ahonen)

What Postcolonial Theory Doesn’t Say, University of York, UK forthcoming July 3-5, 2010.

‘History Between Genres’

Narrative Dominions: On Writing the History of the Novel in English, Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK, July 20-22, 2009.

‘Psychoanalysis Diagnoses Colonialism: From Berkeley-Hill to Bhabha and Beyond’

Pathologies in Literature, Arts and Science Conference, Glamorgan Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Sciences, University of Glamorgan, UK, August 20-21, 2007.

L-709, R. D. Édifice Parker

(705) 675-1151 poste 4344

mgreedharry@laurentienne.ca

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am at the start of a new research project focusing on how the field of postcolonial studies has engendered (or failed to engender) specifically postcolonial pedagogies. Postcolonial studies are firmly located in literary departments and literary pedagogical practices, but this is somewhat at odds with the orientation towards the social (and social science) in postcolonial approaches. I am interested in how and in what ways this disciplinary tension jams or opens up the potential of postcolonial theories to do their political and ethical work.

Additional Research Interests

My research interests include postcolonial theory; autobiography (especially the problem of describing and acting ethically); the politics and practices of interdisciplinary scholarship (especially between history and literature); the relevance of postcolonial analysis to popular cultural forms; and critical histories of race.

Areas of Teaching and Supervision

My main teaching fields are postcolonial literature and literary theory. I welcome supervision of projects that include some aspect of my research interests. For the year 2010-11 I would be particularly interested in projects that focus on postcolonial analysis of popular cultural forms (especially television or genre fiction).    

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS AND RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS

“Postcolonial Theory” and “Social Constructionism.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory.  Ed. Robert Eaglestone. Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming 2010.

Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis: From Uneasy Engagements to Effective Critique. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

‘Policing the postcolonial classroom; the institutional limits of teaching anti-colonialism’

Race-making and the state: between postracial neoliberalism and racialized terrorism, The 10th Annual R.A.C.E. Critical Race and Anti-Colonial Studies Conference, University of Alberta, Canada forthcoming October 2-4, 2010.

‘Managing Postcolonialism: Postcolonial Theory Meets Organization’ (with Pasi Ahonen)

What Postcolonial Theory Doesn’t Say, University of York, UK forthcoming July 3-5, 2010.

‘History Between Genres’

Narrative Dominions: On Writing the History of the Novel in English, Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK, July 20-22, 2009.

‘Psychoanalysis Diagnoses Colonialism: From Berkeley-Hill to Bhabha and Beyond’

Pathologies in Literature, Arts and Science Conference, Glamorgan Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Sciences, University of Glamorgan, UK, August 20-21, 2007.