Postdoctoral Fellows
2006-2007 - Kit Dobson
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.
2007-2009 - John Corr
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.).