Joint PhD in Literary Studies / Theatre Studies in English

Graduate Faculty

Elaine Chang, BA(British Columbia), MA, PhD (Stanford).

Assistant Professor (2000).

E-mail: echang@uoguelph.ca

Research Interests

Anglophone postcolonial literature and theory, contemporary British fiction, critical theory, race and gender studies, contemporary historical representation, culture and science.

Books

• Between Engagements: "The Middle," Feminist Interventions, (Post-)Historical Fictions. Forthcoming.

Selected recent articles

• "Postcolonial and Feminist Theories: Recent Interventions, New Directions." Feminist Studies. Forthcoming.


• "'To Be Discontinued': Immigration, Repro-politics, & Chinese Canadian Life Narratives." Autobiography in the Americas. New York: Prager P, forthcoming.


• "Last Past the Post: Theory, Futurity, Feminism." Feminist Locations: Global/Local/Theory/Practice in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Marianne DeKoven. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2001.


• Rev. of Imagining the Nation: Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent by David Leiwei Li. Comparative Literature Studies (2001).


• "Spaghetti Eastern: Mutating Mass Culture, Transforming Ethnicity." Revisioning Italy: National Identity and Global Culture. Ed. Beverly Allen and Mary Russo. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997.


• "Run through the Borders: Feminism, Postmodernism, and Runaway Subjectivity." Border Theory: The Limits of Cultural Politics. Ed. Scott Michaelsen and David E. Johnson. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997.


• "Where the 'Street Kid' Meets the City: Feminism, Postmodernism, and Runaway Subjectivity." Vancouver: Representing the Postmodern City. Ed. Paul Delany. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp P, 1994.


• "A Not-So-New Spelling of My Name: Notes toward (and against) a Politics of Equivocation." Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question. Ed. Angelika Bammer. Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1994.

Awards