Dr. Maureen Moynagh
Degrees:
- Ph.D. (Comp. Lit.) University of Texas at Austin
- M.A. (English) University of Victoria
- B.A. Honours (English, French) University of Winnipeg
Research Interests: Transnational novels, global intimacies, African and Indigenous speculative fiction, child-soldier narratives, trans-American / hemispheric studies, slave narratives and postslavery literature, African-Canadian literature and drama, modernism and empire, modernism and first-wave feminisms, travel writing
Teaching Interests: Global intimacies, African and Indigenous speculative fiction, postcolonial literature, slave narratives and trans-American studies, child-soldier narratives, modernism and first-wave feminisms, theory, literatures of Africa and the African diaspora.
Recent thesis supervision in the areas of modernism and sexuality, the Caribbean Bildungsroman, orientalism and popular culture, slash fiction, African-Canadian poetry, gender and race.
Courses taught:
- ENGL 494 Selected Topics: Human Rights Discourse and Child Soldier Narratives (2011-2012)
- ENGL 491 Selected Topics: Afrofutures, Fantastic Pasts: Contemporary Speculative Fiction from African and the African Diaspora (2015-2016)
- ENGL 445 Seminar on Contemporary Critical Theory
- ENGL 398 Selected Topics: The Contemporary African Novel
- ENGL 347 Literature of Africa and the African Diaspora
- ENGL 330 Women Writers II: Global Intimacies
- ENGL 329 Studies in Women Writers: Feminisms and Their Literatures
- ENGL 282 Literatures of Global Justice
- ENGL/WMGS 259 Gender, Literature and Culture
- ENGL 245 Postcolonial Literature
- ENGL 112 Literature and Academic Writing II
- ENGL 111 Literature and Academic Writing I
- ENGL 100 Introduction to Literature and Critical Writing
