Veronica Thompson, Athabasca University

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Associate Professor Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Athabasca, Alberta thompson@athabascau.ca Office: (186) 641-2504 ext. 2
(403) 226-1963

Expert In

Canadian and Australian settler literature Postcolonial and feminist theories Postcolonial discourses in South African literature Representations of terrorism in postcolonial writing

Bio/Research

Veronica has a Ph.D. from the University of Queensland (Australia), and an M.A. and a B.A. from the University of Calgary. Her doctoral research examined the intersections of postcolonial and feminist theories with a focus on maternity and imperialism in Canadian and Australian settler literature...

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Bio/Research

Veronica has a Ph.D. from the University of Queensland (Australia), and an M.A. and a B.A. from the University of Calgary. Her doctoral research examined the intersections of postcolonial and feminist theories with a focus on maternity and imperialism in Canadian and Australian settler literature; her Master’s research explored postcolonial discourses in South African literature. She is presently researching representations of terrorism in postcolonial writing and as part of this project on terror and the postcolonial recently co-convened seminars titled “The Enemy Within: Cultures of Terror in South Asian Literature and Film” at the 2010 and the 2012 European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) Conferences.

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