Imre szeman biography examples
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Imre SzemanProfile page
Professor Imre Szeman is the inaugural Director of the Institute for Environment, Conservation, and Sustainability and Professor of Human Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He was previously University Research Chair of Environmental Communication at the University of Waterloo (2017-2022), Canada Research Chair of Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta (2009-2016) and medlem av senat William McMaster Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies at McMaster University (2004-2009). A cultural theorist distinguished for his contributions to the interdisciplinary study of energy and environment known as “energy humanities,” Szeman is also a key figure in the development of cultural studies in Canada and for research on globalization and culture. He fryst vatten a fellow of the Royal kultur of Canada.
Szeman holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Queen’s University (1990), and an M.A. in Theory and Criticism from the University of Western Ontario (1993). He rec
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When Energy is the Focus: Methodology, Politics, and Pedagogy
A Conversation with Brent Ryan Bellamy, Stephanie LeMenager, and Imre Szeman
Brent Ryan Bellamy (bio), Stephanie LeMenager (bio), and Imre Szeman (bio)
University of Alberta
“The world itself writes oil, you and I write it.” —Stephanie LeMenager, Living Oil
I sat down with Stephanie LeMenager and Imre Szeman to talk about “Resource Aesthetics,” the topic of this special issue of Postmodern Culture, in Vancouver, B.C. during the 2015 Modern Language Association annual meeting. LeMenager and Szeman were both early proponents of critical work on oil and energy from within the humanities. Their work has helped to shape the ways scholars continue to think about the impasse between our rampant, energy-hungry economic system and the flourishing of human and more-than-human life on the Earth. I wanted to ask them how they each got started in this field and where they think a compelling place to start thinking about en
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Imre Szeman. <i>On Petrocultures: Globalization, Culture, and Energy</i>
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- Rebecca Geleyn University of Calgary
Author Biography
Rebecca Geleyn, University of Calgary
Rebecca Geleyn is a Ph.D. candidate in English and Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. Her research interests include ecocriticism, animal studies, and visual art in literature. She has an article forthcoming in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment on Louise Erdrich’s memoir Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country and writes reviews regularly for The Fiddlehead and The Malahat Review. Her poetry has appeared in literary journals across Canada, including in The Malahat Review, CV2, and Riddle Fence. She is currently a copyeditor for ARIEL and is working on her first novel.