Heike Harting
Heike Härting specializes in postcolonial theory, Canadian and African literatures in English.
- Professeure agrégée
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de littératures et de langues du monde
Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, local C8122
Portrait
Expertise de recherche
Heike Härting is Associate professor of English. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Victoria and joined the department in August 2003. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Research Centre on Planetary Cultural and Literary Studies at the Université de Montréal (Centre de recherche des études littéraires et culturelles sur la planétarité, CELCP), the first Centre of its kind in Canada. Trained in postcolonial and contemporary Canadian studies, her research concentrates on postcolonial literatures and theories, narratives of global violence and planetary health in African and Canadian literatures. Her current research projects examine the ways in which decolonial writing and bioart address, shift, and reconfigure hegemonic and colonially received discourses of the Anthropocene, of planetary geopolitical and geological transformations, and of planetary health (human and more-than-human).
Among others, she has published various articles, a co-edited special issue on "Narrative Violence: Africa and the Middle East" of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (with Nouri Gana, 2008), a special issue on peacekeeping narratives and security of the University of Toronto Quarterly (with Smaro Kamboureli,2009), a co-edited special issue of Transtext(e)s Transcultures on “Cinematic Im/mobilities in the Planetary Now” (with Johannes Riquet, 2023), and a book on Planetary Health Humanities and Pandemics (with Heather Meek, Routledge, 2024). She is the lead investigator of the multidisciplinary research team Les études culturelles et littéraires sur la planétarité: Pratiques, épistémologies, et pédagogies transformatrices/ Cultural and Literary Planetary Studies: Practice, Epistemologies, and Transformative Pedagogies (funded by the Québec government, FRQSC Soutien aux équipes de recherche, 2020-2025). She is also the principal investigator of "Viral Conjunctures: Pandemics and Planetary Health Narratives." (2023-2027), a research project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is also a co-investigator and member of several research teams working on the creative intersections of care, well-being, and narrative. Her research is closely related to her pedagogical practice, which fosters collaborative, decolonial, intersectional, and reparative approaches to knowledge production and dissemination. She is involved in a number of pedagogical and communal initiatives (e.g., with the CÉGEP Vieux Montréal) and supervises various doctoral and MA projects related to contemporary literary and cultural planetary studies, the health humanities, and postcolonial and Canadian literatures.
Biographie
Heike Härting is Associate professor of English. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Victoria and joined the department in August 2003. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Research Centre on Planetary Cultural and Literary Studies at the Université de Montréal (Centre de recherche des études littéraires et culturelles sur la planétarité, CELCP), the first Centre of its kind in Canada. Trained in postcolonial and contemporary Canadian studies, her research concentrates on postcolonial literatures and theories, narratives of global violence and planetary health in African and Canadian literatures. Her current research projects examine the ways in which decolonial writing and bioart address, shift, and reconfigure hegemonic and colonially received discourses of the Anthropocene, of planetary geopolitical and geological transformations, and of planetary health (human and more-than-human).
Among others, she has published various articles, a co-edited special issue on "Narrative Violence: Africa and the Middle East" of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (with Nouri Gana, 2008), a special issue on peacekeeping narratives and security of the University of Toronto Quarterly (with Smaro Kamboureli,2009), a co-edited special issue of Transtext(e)s Transcultures on “Cinematic Im/mobilities in the Planetary Now” (with Johannes Riquet, 2023), and a book on Planetary Health Humanities and Pandemics (with Heather Meek, Routledge, 2024). She is the lead investigator of the multidisciplinary research team Les études culturelles et littéraires sur la planétarité: Pratiques, épistémologies, et pédagogies transformatrices/ Cultural and Literary Planetary Studies: Practice, Epistemologies, and Transformative Pedagogies (funded by the Québec government, FRQSC Soutien aux équipes de recherche, 2020-2025). She is also the principal investigator of "Viral Conjunctures: Pandemics and Planetary Health Narratives." (2023-2027), a research project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is also a co-investigator and member of several research teams working on the creative intersections of care, well-being, and narrative. Her research is closely related to her pedagogical practice, which fosters collaborative, decolonial, intersectional, and reparative approaches to knowledge production and dissemination. She is involved in a number of pedagogical and communal initiatives (e.g., with the CÉGEP Vieux Montréal) and supervises various doctoral and MA projects related to contemporary literary and cultural planetary studies, the health humanities, and postcolonial and Canadian literatures.
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Affiliations et responsabilités
Affiliations de recherche
Unités de recherche
Codirectrice
Enseignement et encadrement
Enseignement
Cours siglés (session en cours uniquement)
- ANG-1104 – Composition: Writing and Research
- ANG-2362 – Literature and Globalization
- ANG-6914 – Research Methods and Bibliographies
Programmes
- 109410 – Baccalauréat en études classiques et anthropologie
- 113510 – Baccalauréat en études anglaises
- 113520 – Majeure en études anglaises
- 113540 – Mineure en études anglaises
- 113570 – Microprogramme de 1er cycle en langue et culture anglaises
- 113710 – Baccalauréat en littératures de langues anglaise et française
- 114010 – Baccalauréat en littérature comparée
- 116610 – Baccalauréat en histoire et études classiques
- 118010 – Baccalauréat en linguistique
- 213510 – Maîtrise en études anglaises
Encadrement
Thèses et mémoires dirigés (dépôt institutionnel Papyrus)
Memory beyond borders : studying wall and door metaphors in the refugee imagination : Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West
Cycle : Maîtrise
Diplôme obtenu : M.A.
History, memory, and trauma : reading Marwan Hassan’s "The Confusion of Stones" and Rawi Hage’s De Niro's Game
Cycle : Maîtrise
Diplôme obtenu : M.A.
Against oblivion : narrating the refugee camps in contemporary literary works in english
Cycle : Doctorat
Diplôme obtenu : Ph. D.
Captive bodies, dissident voices : carcerality and resistance in third-world women's narratives
Cycle : Doctorat
Diplôme obtenu : Ph. D.
Female identity and race in contemporary Afrofuturist narratives : "Wild seed" by Octavia E. Butler
Cycle : Maîtrise
Diplôme obtenu : M.A.
Gender, globalization and beyond in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Interpreter of Maladies
Cycle : Maîtrise
Diplôme obtenu : M.A.
The aesthetics and politics of political violence in West African literature
Cycle : Doctorat
Diplôme obtenu : Ph. D.
Shapeshifting in Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed and Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon
Cycle : Maîtrise
Diplôme obtenu : M.A.
Linguistic imperialism : a study of language and yoruba rituals in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the king’s horseman
Cycle : Maîtrise
Diplôme obtenu : M.A.
Consumption of Bias and Reptition as a Revisionary Strategies in Palace of the Peacock and in the Thought of Wilson Harris
Cycle : Maîtrise
Diplôme obtenu : M.A.
Queering the Cross-Cultural Imagination: (Trans)Subjectivity and Wilson Harris's The Palace of the Peacock
Cycle : Maîtrise
Diplôme obtenu : M.A.
The Hybridity of Violence : Location, Dislocation, and Relocation in Contemporary Canadian Multicultural and Indigenous Writing
Cycle : Doctorat
Diplôme obtenu : Ph. D.
Dance and the colonial body : re-choreographing postcolonial theories of the body
Cycle : Doctorat
Diplôme obtenu : Ph. D.
Rethinking community in Dionne Brand’s What we all long for, Ahdaf Soueif’s The map of love, Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s ghost and Joseph Boyden’s Three day road and through black spruce
Cycle : Doctorat
Diplôme obtenu : Ph. D.
Postcolonial readings of resistance and negotiation in selected contemporary African writing
Cycle : Doctorat
Diplôme obtenu : Ph. D.
Grounds for telling it : transnational feminism and Canadian women's writing
Cycle : Doctorat
Diplôme obtenu : Ph. D.
From Shakespeare's globe to our globe
Cycle : Maîtrise
Diplôme obtenu : M.A.
Nation and its configuration : the (mis)representation of the Orient in the literary imagination of Melville
Cycle : Maîtrise
Diplôme obtenu : M.A.
Projets
Projets de recherche
Quand la littérature et la médecine s’accompagnent et nous accompagnent : pour une infrastructure de recherche-création sur l’accompagnement et le soin.
Viral Conjunctures: Pandemics and Planetary Health Narratives
Les études culturelles et littéraires sur La planétarité: Pratiques, épistémologies, et pédagogies transformatrices
Planetary Drifts---Methodology, Technology, and the Creative Imagination in the Age of Planetary Transformation
L'espace planétaire. Les humanités au carrefour du local et du post-global
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
Afronauts, Afrofuturism, and African Science Fiction: Imaging Planetary Futures
ATELIER: COSMOPOLITAN FILM CULTURES: NARRATIVE, THEORY, PRODUCTION
ATELIER : COSMOPOLITAN FILM CULTURES: NARRATIVE, THEORY, PRODUCTION
GLOBA IZING AFRICA IN FILM AND LITERATURE: CULTURE, MILITARISM AND THE RISE OF HUMANITARIANIST CAPITAL
AFRICA IN ENGLISH CANADIAN LITERATURE FROM IMPERIAL ROMANCE TO HUMANITARIAN SENTIMENT AND SATIRE
Rayonnement
Publications et communications
Disciplines
- Études littéraires
- Littérature
- Science politique
- Études féministes
Champ d’expertise
- Théories postcoloniales
- Études postcoloniales
- Mondialisation
- Littérature canadienne
- Théorie critique de la race
- Littérature contemporaine
- Féminisme
- Interdisciplinarité
- Théories et pratiques de l'intermédialité
- Théorie de la métaphore
- Canada
- Cinéma
- Époque contemporaine
- Période contemporaine (arts et lettres)
- Études féministes
- Études transnationales
- Afrique
- Europe
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