Dianne Chisholm
Professor
Website: http://www.ualberta.ca/~chisholm/
DPhil Oxford University
Supervisory and research interests
My current research focuses on ecological theory and philosophy, environmental literature and writing, and ecocriticism. Former and abiding research interests include modernism and modernity, with specialization in women's experimental writing, and queer urban subculture. I read literary and aesthetic theory, cultural theory, critical theory, feminist theory, and continental philosophy. I currently supervise doctoral research in ecocritical studies; transgender studies; and material feminisms.
Courses taught
Literary and cultural theory; critical theory; feminist theory; psychoanalytic theory and criticism; modernism and modernity; postmodernism and postmodernity; American literary movements; American minority literature and culture; gender and sexuality; eco-critical studies; and (as of the past two years) aboriginal literature.
Representative publications
Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space in the Wake of the City. Minneapolis, MN: U Minnesota P, 2005. http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/C/chisholm_queer.html>
The Art of Ecological Thinking: Literary Ecology" ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 18.3 (Summer 2011). http://isle.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/10/03/isle.isr077.full.pdf+html
"Biophilia, Creative Involution, and the Ecological Future of Queer Desire." In Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Biopolitics and Desire. Eds. Catriona Sandilands and Bruce Erickson. Indiana UP, 2010. 359-81.
"Benjamin's Gender, Sex, and Eros." A Companion to the Works of Walter Benjamin. Ed. Rolf J. Goebel. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer-Camden House, 2009. 246-72.
"The Nomadic Experiment of a Steppe Land Flaneuse." Wagadu: Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies. 7 (Fall/Winter) 2009: 1-25. Special issue on "The Global Flaneuse." Ed. Kathryn Kramer.
"Climbing Like a Girl: An Exemplary Adventure in Feminist Phenomenology." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 23.1 (Winter 2008): 9-40.
"Rhizome, Ecology, Geophilosophy." Editor's Introduction to Deleuze and Guattari's Eco-Philosophy. Special Issue of Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 15 (Fall 2007). http://www.rhizomes.net/issue15/chisholm.html
Remarks
I am at present working on a SSHRC-funded research program, the aims of which are to theorize and expand the concept and practice of ecology from a humanities-based perspective, and to write two books: The Art of Ecological Thinking: Cultural Studies in Literary, Cinematic and Musical Ecology, a critical monograph, and Home, Home on the Deranged: A Field Guide to the Colliding Landscapes of Alberta's Front Ranges, a creative non-fiction collection.