Katherine McLeod – 2010-2012
Dr. Katherine McLeod is a SSHRC-funded TransCanada Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Guelph, 2010-2012). Her postdoctoral research focuses on the CBC radio program “Anthology” and its contribution to the production of Canadian Literature. Her doctoral dissertation (University of Toronto) examined a range of performances of poetry by The Four Horsemen, Michael Ondaatje, George Elliott Clarke, and Robert Bringhurst. Along with book reviews in Canadian Literature, Journal of Canadian Poetry and Canadian Theatre Review, she has published an article in Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature (Spring 2009), a chapter in Theatre and Autobiography: Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice; the latter chapter has been recently reprinted in Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English: Solo Performance (2011).
John Corr – 2007-2009
John Corr defended his dissertation “Diasporic Sexualities in Contemporary Canadian Fiction” at McMaster University in June 2007. He was 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 was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship holder, and the first postdoctoral fellow sponsored by TransCanada Institute. He was also a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University (2008-09). 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. His book, Transnational Canadas: Globalization and Anglo-Canadian Literature (2009), was the first title in Smaro Kamboureli’s TransCanada Series Books (Wilfrid Laurier UP). His writing has appeared 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. With Smaro Kamboureli, he has co-edited, and written an Introduction for, Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace (Wilfrid Laurier UP 2013).