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  • HUMA 7P01 — Poster Presentation a Success!

    Friday, April 04, 2025 | By

    On Wednesday April 2, the PhD Interdisciplinary Humanities 7P01 first and second year students presented their capstone thesis project to the Brock community members.  The event showcased the students hard work, dedication and expertise, effectively they were able to engage the community in the complexities of their projects through their clear and informative presentations.

    Congratulations and appreciation goes out to the students for the success of this event, which highlighted the commitment that Brock HUMA has to fostering academic excellence! Great job everyone!


    Teresa A. Galbraith
    Thesis: Case study of the discursive production of whiteness, health, and heteronormativity through the anthropomorphization of Elsie the Borden Cow.
    Supervisor: Lynn Arner
    Email: [email protected]


    Long Hoang Vu
    Thesis: The Cultural Politics of Giftedness
    Supervisor: Trevor Norris
    Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2540-3223
    Email: [email protected]


    Philip Akoje
    Thesis: Decoloniality, Masks, Masquerades, and Rhizomes
    Supervisor: David Fancy
    Website:https://brocku.academia.edu/PhilipAkoje
    https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2566-4216;
    Email:  [email protected]


    Laur Pilon
    Thesis: Queer, Trans and Crip Abstractions: Painting as a Mode of Posthumanist Performativity 
    Supervisor: Christine Daigle
    Website:http://www.laur-p.com
    Email: [email protected]


    Elizabeth Colantoni
    Thesis: Cosimo “Il Vecchio” de’ Medici’s Politics-as-Performance 
    Supervisor: David Fancy
    Email: [email protected]


    Anna Roshni Jose
    Thesis: Therapeutic Mnemotechnics: A Study on Cultural Memory in Select Palestinian Short Fiction in English
    Supervisor: Susan Spearey
    Email: [email protected] 


    Hani Hedayati
    Thesis: Critical Discourse Analysis of Post-Colonial Ideologies and Their Re/Production in Migration Literature 
    Supervisor: Margot Francis 
    Email: [email protected]

  • Anna Roshni Jose receives 2025 International TA Award!

    Friday, April 04, 2025 | By

    The International TA Award is sponsored by Centre for Pedagogical and Faculty of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs, and is presented annually to “an international graduate teaching assistant who demonstrates excellence and promise in the field of teaching.”  This year HUMA is pleased to announce Anna Roshni Jose as the recipient of the 2025 International TA Award!

    Since her start at Brock in 2023, Anna has completed many professional development opportunities which contributed to her growth as an educator. Through the sentiments of fellow TA’s, faculty, supervisors and former students Anna is able “to create an impactful learning space”, one that is an “engaging and inclusive learning environment” a true testament of Anna’s skills and dedication.

    An award ceremony will take place on Tuesday April 8 at 10am at the Goodman Atrium, where Anna will be presented this prestigious award. Congratulations Anna for a such an accomplishment!

     

  • Poster Session on April 2nd, 2025

    Wednesday, March 19, 2025 | By

    Join our celebration of excellence as our 1st and 2nd year students showcase their outstanding PhD capstone projects! 

    All are welcome to view the projects and to engage in discussion with the students.

    Cairns Atrium, April 2nd, 1-3 pm  

  • Orientation Event Welcomes the Incoming PhD Students

    Thursday, September 12, 2024 | By

    On Tuesday, September 3rd, HUMA faculty and students were on hand to welcome the new cohort. We are thrilled to have Elizabeth Colantoni, Philip Akoje, Kaitlin Grant, Hani Hedayati, and Laur Pilon join the program!

    Back: Dr. Donna Szoke, Dr. Fiona Blaikie, Dr. Sarah Stang, Ece Cizmeci, Laur Pilon, Marley Liepert, Philip Akoje, Dr. Gregory Betts, Dr. Michael Ripmeester, John Heckman
    Middle: Teresa Galbraith, Long Vu, Anna Roshni Jose, Alia Wazzan, Dr. Lissa Paul, Elizabeth Colantoni
    Front Row: Herminia Morales-Newman, Dr. Nina Penner, Dr. Elizabeth Vlossak, Maya Karanouh, Zixuan Liao

     

    Categories: Events, HUMA Faculty, HUMA Grad Students, Uncategorised

  • Grants, awards and appointments from the HUMA faculty

    Wednesday, November 08, 2023 | By

    We are happy to announce grants, awards and appointments from the HUMA faculty:

    • Gregory Betts for winning SSHRC funding for “How To Speak to Aliens: bp Nichol and the Cosmic Other”
    • Christine Daigle, SSHRC Insight Grant for “Bomb Pulse: Cultural and Philosophical Readings of Time Signatures in the Anthropocene”
    • Jennifer Roberts-Smith for her SSHRC partnership grant “Staging Better Futures/Mettre en scène de meilleurs avenirs (SBF/MSMA)”
    • Aaron Mauro for his appointment as GPD of the Department of Digital Humanities
    • Lissa Paul, elected as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada

  • Congratulations to Julie Warkentin on her successful defence of her thesis on 28 September 2023!

    Monday, October 02, 2023 | By

    Congratulations to Julie Warkentin on her successful defence of her thesis on 28 September 2023!

  • Mitch Goldsmith had a successful defence of his doctoral dissertation

    Wednesday, September 06, 2023 | By

    Congratulations to Mitch Goldsmith on the successful defence of his doctoral dissertation! Terrific work. HUMA program faculty and staff are all delighted.

    Below is the abstract for Mitch’s thesis: “The Unfinished Business of Anna Kingsford: Science, Enchantment, and Experiments on Animals”

    The project takes seriously Dr Anna Kingsford’s (1846-1888) claim that vivisection is a type of sorcery and science, a type of occult or spiritual undertaking believing that the assertion, which gained currency during the 19th–century antivivisection movement and is now overlooked, is yet unfinished and therefore a potentially powerful figuration for current antivivisectionists. To that end, the dissertation provides a critical and intersectional reading of the 19th-century British and European antivivisection movement, the fin de siècle occult revival, and Kingsford’s role in each, often working to bring these worlds together. This historical analysis includes an examination of Victorian attitudes to the period’s changing understanding of gender, species, race, and science. Building on this historical foundation, the dissertation will provide a theoretical discussion of Kingsford’s contemporary resonances with emerging disciplines in the environmental and posthumanities, including critical animal studies, material feminism, feminist posthumanism, and science and technology studies. Many theorists in these fields are interested in reappraising the roles of affect, enchantment, mysticism, and wonder in ethical thinking and human-animal-environmental relations.

    This project builds on these historical and theoretical insights by providing an “enchanted” analysis of the contemporary laboratory space, experiments on animals, and a reading of three case studies of ongoing animal experimentation paradigms (i.e., maternal deprivation, learned helplessness, and the organizational-activational hypothesis of homosexuality) which I argue lend themselves to a Kingsford-inspired analysis. Furthermore, this project articulates a novel “enchanted animal ethic” involving a feminist and neo-Spinozist articulation of human-animal and environmental ethics that makes space for mystical, non-secular modes of meaning-making, care-centered multispecies community building, and social and political movements. Finally, the project and an enchanted understanding of animal ethics will be useful to interdisciplinary scholars and advocates seeking a paradigm change in the sciences away from experiments on animals and towards a more humane and efficacious science as well as more egalitarian and meaningful relationships with animals and the more-than-human world.

  • CUPE Collective Agreement

    Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | By

    Please find below the collective agreement with CUPE from September 2022 to September 2025:
    CUPE Collective Agreement

  • Podcast Broadcasts Dr. Lissa Paul’s Research on Eliza Fenwick and the Stories of Fugitive Slaves

    Thursday, March 16, 2023 | By

    Dr. Lissa Paul is a researcher in children’s literature at Brock University, and director of the PhD Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities. Lissa has followed the story of 19th century writer and educator Eliza Fenwick from London to Barbados to Niagara-on-the-Lake. Lissa shares who Eliza was and how researching Eliza’s story lead her to stories of fugitive slaves and current efforts to decolonize the landscape by memorializing former enslaved people in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

    https://www.podbean.com/player-v2/?i=2zrwv-13a3eea-pb&from=pb6admin&share=1&download=1&rtl=0&fonts=Arial&skin=1&font-color=auto&logo_link=episode_page&btn-skin=654771