Heike Harting
- Professeure agrégée
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de littératures et de langues du monde
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Biography
Heike Härting received her doctoral degree from the University of Victoria and joined the department in August 2003.
Heike Härting specializes in Canadian literature and criticism, postcolonial literary studies, and diaspora and globalization studies. She has also worked on narrative theory and rhetoric, focusing on the development of a postcolonial practice and politics of metaphor in contemporary Canadian fiction.
Currently, her research evolves around histories, epistemologies, and representations of violence, warfare, and humanitarianism in contemporary film and literature in English. She received a SSHRC research grant for her work on postcolonial narratives of civil and global war and was a co-investigator in the Major Collaborative Research Initiative on Globalization and Autonomy (McMaster University). She holds an FQRSC grant for her project on "The politics of corpses in Rwandan and Sri Lankan Narratives of Global War" and has co-edited a special issue on "Narrative Violence: Africa and the Middle East" of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Together with Smaro Kamboureli, she is presently editing a special issue on "Canadian Peacekeeping Narratives, Security and the Canadian Imaginary" of University of Toronto Quarterly (78.3 ; Summer 2009). She published "Global Civil War and Postcolonial Studies," in the Working Paper Series of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition (McMaster U., globalization.mcmaster.ca/wps.htm). Her essays "Global Violence and Political Legitimacy in Sri Lankan Narratives of Ethnic Civil War" and "Culture, Race, and the Global Imaginary in Roméo Dallaire's Shake Hands with the Devil" are forthcoming with the University of British Columbia Press. She has finished her book manuscript Unruly Metaphor: Nation, Body, and Diaspora in Contemporary Canadian Fiction and published articles on, amongst others, Michael Ondaatje, Austin Clarke, David Dabydeen, and Jeannette Armstrong. She is also the editor of Postcolonial Text (http://postcolonial.org).
Combining her research interests with her commitment to teaching and pedagogy, Heike Härting enjoys supervising a number of doctoral research projects. She also co-founded the Department's inter-university graduate research colloquium with the University of Guelph and the TransCanada Institute (see Guelph-Montreal Exchange Colloquium at www.transcanadas.ca). A three-year pilot project, the Colloquium is designed to bring together graduate students from both universities to collaborate on issues of Canadian literatures and criticism in various cultural and linguistic contexts.
Härting won a Government of Canada Award from the International Council for Canadian Studies and a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. She is presently a SSHRC Co-investigator for the Major Collaborative Research Initiative Globalization and Autonomy / Mondialisation et Autonomie based at McMaster University. Her research will contribute to the project's various editorial and publishing ventures.
She has published on Maragaret Atwood, Anita Rau Badami, Michael Ondaatje, Toni Morrison, and Wole Soyinka in such journals as ARIEL, Third Text, and Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en Littérature Canadienne. Two of her articles are forthcoming in Postcolonialism and Pedagogy: Canadian Literatures in the Classroom, edited by Cytnhia Sugars and in La Troisième Solitude: Écriture Minoritaire Canadienne / The Third Solitude: Canadian Minority Writing, edited by Lianne Moyes. She is also an editor of Canada's first online journal on postcolonial literatures, Postcolonial Text.
Affiliations
- Codirectrice – CELCP — Centre de recherche des études littéraires et culturelles sur la planétarité
Education Programs
- Social Sciences Literature and Languages
- Literature and Languages
- Literature and Languages
- Literature and Languages
- Literature and Languages
- Literature and Languages
- Literature and Languages
- Literature and Languages Humanities
- Literature and Languages
- Literature and Languages
Courses
- ANG1104 Composition: Writing and Research
- ANG2362 Literature and Globalization
- ANG6914 Research Methods and Bibliographies
Areas of Expertise
- Postcolonial theories
- Études postcoloniales
- Globalization
- Canadian literature
- Critical race theory
- Contemporary literature
- Feminism
- Interdisciplinarity
- Theories and practices of intermediality
- Theory of Metaphor
- Canada
- Film Making
- Modern Times
- Modern Period (writing and fine arts)
- Études féministes
- Transnational Studies
- Africa
- Europe
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Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
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Quand la littérature et la médecine s’accompagnent et nous accompagnent : pour une infrastructure de recherche-création sur l’accompagnement et le soin. Projet de recherche au Canada / 2024 - 2029
Viral Conjunctures: Pandemics and Planetary Health Narratives Projet de recherche au Canada / 2023 - 2029
Les études culturelles et littéraires sur La planétarité: Pratiques, épistémologies, et pédagogies transformatrices Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2025
Planetary Drifts---Methodology, Technology, and the Creative Imagination in the Age of Planetary Transformation Projet de recherche au Canada / 2022 - 2024
L'espace planétaire. Les humanités au carrefour du local et du post-global Projet de recherche au Canada / 2019 - 2021
Planetary Cultural and Literary Studies: New Epistemologies and Relational Futures in the Age of the Anthropocene / Études culturelles et littéraires planétaires: Nouvelles épistémologies et avenirs Projet de recherche au Canada / 2018 - 2021
Afronauts, Afrofuturism, and African Science Fiction: Imaging Planetary Futures Projet de recherche au Canada / 2018 - 2021
ATELIER: COSMOPOLITAN FILM CULTURES: NARRATIVE, THEORY, PRODUCTION Projet de recherche au Canada / 2011 - 2013
ATELIER : COSMOPOLITAN FILM CULTURES: NARRATIVE, THEORY, PRODUCTION Projet de recherche au Canada / 2011 - 2013
GLOBA IZING AFRICA IN FILM AND LITERATURE: CULTURE, MILITARISM AND THE RISE OF HUMANITARIANIST CAPITAL Projet de recherche au Canada / 2009 - 2011
AFRICA IN ENGLISH CANADIAN LITERATURE FROM IMPERIAL ROMANCE TO HUMANITARIAN SENTIMENT AND SATIRE Projet de recherche au Canada / 2008 - 2008
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