Heike Harting
- Professeure agrégée
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de littératures et de langues du monde
Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, room C8122
Profile
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.
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Affiliations and responsabilities
Research affiliations
Research units
Codirectrice
Teaching and supervision
Teaching
Courses taught (current session only)
Programs
- 113510 – Baccalauréat en études anglaises
- 113520 – Majeure en études anglaises
- 113540 – Mineure en études anglaises
- 113710 – Baccalauréat en littératures de langues anglaise et française
- 213510 – Maîtrise en études anglaises
- 313510 – Doctorat en études anglaises
- 313710 – Doctorat en études allemandes
Student supervision
Theses and dissertation supervision (Papyrus Institutional Repository)
History, memory, and trauma : reading Marwan Hassan’s "The Confusion of Stones" and Rawi Hage’s De Niro's Game
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Captive bodies, dissident voices : carcerality and resistance in third-world women's narratives
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Against oblivion : narrating the refugee camps in contemporary literary works in english
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Female identity and race in contemporary Afrofuturist narratives : "Wild seed" by Octavia E. Butler
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Gender, globalization and beyond in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Interpreter of Maladies
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Shapeshifting in Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed and Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
The aesthetics and politics of political violence in West African literature
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Linguistic imperialism : a study of language and yoruba rituals in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the king’s horseman
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Consumption of Bias and Reptition as a Revisionary Strategies in Palace of the Peacock and in the Thought of Wilson Harris
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Dance and the colonial body : re-choreographing postcolonial theories of the body
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
The Hybridity of Violence : Location, Dislocation, and Relocation in Contemporary Canadian Multicultural and Indigenous Writing
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Queering the Cross-Cultural Imagination: (Trans)Subjectivity and Wilson Harris's The Palace of the Peacock
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Postcolonial readings of resistance and negotiation in selected contemporary African writing
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : 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 : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Grounds for telling it : transnational feminism and Canadian women's writing
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Nation and its configuration : the (mis)representation of the Orient in the literary imagination of Melville
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
From Shakespeare's globe to our globe
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Projects
Research projects
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
Outreach
Publications and presentations
Disciplines
- Literary Studies
- Literature
- History
- Political Science
- Women Studies
Areas of expertise
- Caribbean literature
- Caribbean cinema and criticism
- Theory of Metaphor
- Canadian multiculturalism
- Contemporary literature
- Diaspora
- Globalization
- Feminism
- Postcolonial theories
- Caribbean
- Canada
- Canadian literature
- Film Making
- Modern Times
- Modern Period (writing and fine arts)
- Études postcoloniales
- Multiculturalism
- Études féministes
- Rwanda