Postdoctoral Fellows
Katherine McLeod - 2010-2012
Katherine McLeod is a SSHRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow at TransCanada Institute. At the University of Toronto, she wrote her doctoral dissertation on performances of Canadian poetry, examining a range of performances based on the poetry of The Four Horsemen, Michael Ondaatje, George Elliott Clarke, and Robert Bringhurst (to be defended in June 2010). She has published on George Elliott Clarke's jazz opera Québécité in Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature (Spring 2001) and in Canadian Theatre Review (Spring 2010) and has published a chapter on Linda Griffiths and Wendy Lill in Theatre and Autobiography: Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice (2006). Her postdoctoral project will focus on the CBC radio archives and how they have influenced the production of Canadian Literature. Supervised by Smaro Kamboureli, the project will combine an analysis of the radio archives as acoustic archives with an analysis of the radio program "Anthology" (1954-1985). Katherine is very much looking forward to pursuing this research as part of the interdisciplinary communities at the University of Guelph.
John Corr - 2007-2009
John Corr defended his dissertation "Diasporic Sexualities in Contemporary Canadian Fiction" at McMaster University in June 2007. He is a SSHRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow at TransCanada Institute. His current projects include: transforming his dissertation into a manuscript; researching a new book-length project, "Shades of White: the Transition of the Irish in Canada"; collaborating on a curriculum of affective practice, self-defense, and social justice with the Migrant Workers Family Resource Center; and co-organizing TransCanada Three. Corr is also a founding member of the CRC Symposium for Diversity in Canadian Literary Cultures, organized at McMaster University. He has taught survey and seminar courses in literature, cultural studies, and rhetoric at the University of Guelph, McMaster University, St. Jerome's University (University of Waterloo), Wilfrid Laurier University, and Mohawk College. He has published in the Journal of West Indian Literature and contributed to the Routledge Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, and the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory (online ed.).
Kit Dobson - 2006-2007
Kit Dobson is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship holder, and the first postdoctoral fellow sponsored by TransCanada Institute. As of September 2008, he will become a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto (2006), his Master's degree from the University of York, UK (2002), and his bachelor's degree from the University of Victoria (2001). He works in Canadian literature, with an interest in issues of globalization, print culture, and multiculturalism, and has just completed a book manuscript entitled Transnational Canadas: Globalization and Anglo-Canadian Literature. His writing appears or is forthcoming in the journals Studies in Canadian Literature, Open Letter, Callaloo, and English Studies in Canada, as well as in several books, including Signs of Dissent, No Language Is Neutral: Critical Essays on Dionne Brand, and The Culture of Research: Retooling the Humanities.