 Dr Debra Dudek
BA, MA (Manitoba), PhD (Saskatchewan)
Debra teaches in the English Studies Program with particular interests in:
- Australian Literature
- Canadian Literature
- Children's Literature
Research InterestsIn general, my research interests include: feminist theories, especially theories of the body; postcolonial and diaspora studies; Australian studies; Canadian literature; children's literature; popular culture and media studies; film and other visual arts studies; women's literature; creative writing. Currently, I am researching representations of activism in children's literature. Teaching
- Coordinator, ENGL259 An Introduction to Canadian Literature
- Coordinator, ENGL260, Nineteenth Century Australian Literary Culture
- Coordinator, ENGL375 Australia Fair: Nation, "Race", Culture
PublicationsArticles "Approaching the Other in Twelve Canadian Picture Books." CCL/LCJ: Canadian Children’s Literature/ Littérature canadienne pour la jenuesse 33.1 (Spring 2007): 107-22. "Over My Dead Body: Multicultural Social Cohesion in Veronica Mars." The Looking Glass 11.1 (2 January 2007). On-line. "Under the Wire: Detainee Activism in Australian Children's Literature." Papers (December 2006): 17-22. "Of Murmels and Snigs: Detention-Centre Narratives in Australian Literature for Children." Overland 185 (November 2006). 38-42. "Dogboys and Lost Things; or Anchoring a Floating Signifier: Race and Critical Multiculturalism." Ariel 37.4 (October 2006): 1-20. "'Blood Gashed and Running Like Rain': A Diasporic Poetics in Dionne Brand’s In Another Place Not Here and Simone Lazaroo’s The Australian Fiancé." Australasian Canadian Studies 23.2 (2005): 39-54. "Desiring Perception: Finding Utopian Impulses in Shaun Tan’s The Lost Thing." Papers 15.2 (November 2005): 58-66. "Between Eight and Infinity: Mobilising the Fragment in Fred Wah’s Faking It." Open Letter (Autumn 2004): 38-52. Contributions to Books “"A Timeless Imagined Prairie: Return and Regeneration in Margaret Laurence’s Manawaka Novels." History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies. Winnipeg, MB: University of Manitoba Press. 2005. 235-258. "Begin with the Text: Canadian Aboriginal Literatures and Postcolonial Theories." Creating Community: A Roundtable on Canadian Aboriginal Literatures. Brandon, MB: Bearpaw Publishing & Theytus Books, 2002. 89-108.
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