Martha Nandorfy, Professor; retired 2022
School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing
Email:
marthanandorfy@gmail.com; mnandorf@uoguelph.ca
Martha Nandorfy
Dr. Nandorfy teaches primarily in the areas of postcolonial studies (Native and mestizo American, Latinx, Latin American), and storytelling relating to the Americas, the U.S. / Mexico borderlands, and border thinking. Her theoretical interests focus on the implications of storytelling for literary journalism and emergent, hybrid or mixed-genres that challenge Western epistemological distinctions between fiction and non-fiction, story and history, story and theory, Western knowledge and a global ecology of knowledges. Other research, teaching, and supervisory interests include film and media studies (especially creative journalism), globalization and migration. Her main pedagogical interest is in teaching how multiculturalism challenges collective and personal identity, and how the united principles of equality and acceptance of difference relate to post-nationalist politics and transculturation.
Key words: postcolonial studies, storytelling, Native and mestizo literatures, Latino/a literatures, U.S. / Mexico borderlands, globalization and migration, human and environmental rights, literary journalism, creative non-fiction.
Martha Nandorfy is co-author (with Daniel Fischlin) of the trilogy The Concise Guide to Global Human Rights; Eduardo Galeano: Through the Looking Glass; Community of Rights / Rights of Community. She is author of The Poetics of Apocalypse: García Lorca’s Poet in New York. Other publications include “Paradoxes of Globalization: Neo-colonialism Versus Evolving Ecologies” in Discourses on Power, “Border Thinking and Feminist Solidarity in the Fourth World” in a Special Issue of Tropelías, “Beyond the Binaries of Critical Thought and Toward Feeling-Thinking Stories” in The Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, “The Right to Live in Peace: Protest, Love, and Cultural Survival in the Songs of Violeta Parra and Victor Jara” in Rebel Musics: Human Rights, Resistant Sounds and the Politics of Music Making, “Grafted Images and Gathered Voices: The Realism of Need in Galeano’s The Book of Embraces” in a Special Issue of Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, “Two Radical Storytellers for the Young (and) Old” in Latin American Narratives and Cultural Identity: Selected Readings and Charles Bowden’s Anarcho-Biotic Poetics in Literary Journalism Studies.
Dr. Nandorfy’s research grants and awards include the Learning Enhancement Fund and a SSHRC standard research grant that supported her research and publications on human and environmental rights and social justice issues. She has done research in Mexico on the human rights of indigenous peoples, and has taught Canadian Literature and documentary film, and Latin American Literatures in Cuba. Her fluency in Spanish and background in comparative literature enable a pan-American approach to the study of Anglo and Spanish American cultures and literatures. Her interest in documentary film and social change has involved her in community service to The Guelph Festival of Moving Media as board member and programmer.