Lincoln Shlensky, University of Victoria
assistant professor
department of English
Victoria, British Columbia
shlensky@uvic.ca
Office:
(250) 721-6206
Bio/Research
He teaches undergraduate courses in film rhetoric and aesthetics, postcolonial studies, Caribbean literature, Jewish diasporas, and cultural theory. He has taught graduate seminars in postcolonial literature and theory and will be teaching a global cinema seminar in early 2014.
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Bio/Research
He teaches undergraduate courses in film rhetoric and aesthetics, postcolonial studies, Caribbean literature, Jewish diasporas, and cultural theory. He has taught graduate seminars in postcolonial literature and theory and will be teaching a global cinema seminar in early 2014.
He has supervised and produced a series of student- and former student-directed films for the English Department, including three short films on first-year writing and a brief history of the Department in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the University of Victoria in 2013.
Dr. Shlensky completed his doctoral dissertation in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2003. His dissertation, titled "Resituations: Repetition, Nationalism, and the Traumas of Modernity in the Writing of Aharon Appelfeld and Edouard Glissant," examines the use of repetition as a key rhetorical and formal figure for representing the disturbances of collective memory and politics in the Caribbean and Israel. After receiving his Ph.D., he taught English at the University of South Alabama for three years before coming to the University of Victoria in 2006.
He currently is preparing a manuscript entitled "Islands of Memory: The Literary Politics of Traumatic Aftermaths," which examines modernist literary influences and the politics of traumatic remembrance in postcolonial literatures. He also has an article in progress, "Edouard Glissant and the Event," which considers Glissant's historical narratives in relation to the discourse of the event in poststructural philosophy.
Dr. Shlensky is a section editor for the journal Postcolonial Text and has chaired the Caribbean Studies Association's Presidential Task Force. He helped found and remains active in Jewish Voice for Peace. He has served as webmaster for the English Department since 2006 and represents the Faculty of Graduate Studies in UVic's Senate Committee on Academic Standards.
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He has supervised and produced a series of student- and former student-directed films for the English Department, including three short films on first-year writing and a brief history of the Department in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the University of Victoria in 2013.
Dr. Shlensky completed his doctoral dissertation in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2003. His dissertation, titled "Resituations: Repetition, Nationalism, and the Traumas of Modernity in the Writing of Aharon Appelfeld and Edouard Glissant," examines the use of repetition as a key rhetorical and formal figure for representing the disturbances of collective memory and politics in the Caribbean and Israel. After receiving his Ph.D., he taught English at the University of South Alabama for three years before coming to the University of Victoria in 2006.
He currently is preparing a manuscript entitled "Islands of Memory: The Literary Politics of Traumatic Aftermaths," which examines modernist literary influences and the politics of traumatic remembrance in postcolonial literatures. He also has an article in progress, "Edouard Glissant and the Event," which considers Glissant's historical narratives in relation to the discourse of the event in poststructural philosophy.
Dr. Shlensky is a section editor for the journal Postcolonial Text and has chaired the Caribbean Studies Association's Presidential Task Force. He helped found and remains active in Jewish Voice for Peace. He has served as webmaster for the English Department since 2006 and represents the Faculty of Graduate Studies in UVic's Senate Committee on Academic Standards.
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