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Dr. Misao Dean

Dr. Misao Dean

Professor

English

Contact:
Office: CLE C319
Credentials:
MA (Carleton), PhD (Queen's)
Area(s) of expertise:
Early Canadian writing on animals and the natural world, the Canadian novel, representation, contemporary critical theory, feminisms

Misao Dean grew up in Toronto, and moved to Victoria in 1989. She teaches courses on the Canadian novel, and is interested in non-fiction prose and travel writing as well. She has published extensively on early Canadian women writers, on the literature of wilderness travel, and on animals and hunting in early Canadian writing. Her most recent book, Inheriting a Canoe Paddle, is on the way the discourse of the canoe is mobilized to justify Canadian sovereignty in the context of Aboriginal title.
Dr. Dean is currently working on theories of affect and literary pleasure, and on early Canadian writing about animals and the natural world.

“Teaching Affect” at The Affect Conference: Memory, Aesthetics, and Ethics, September 19, 2015.


“Motorcycling through the Archives.” Paper presented to Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures at the annual Congress of the Humanities, May 24th, Brock U.


“John Green Plays Fifa 14” Paper presented to the Sport and Literature Association at their annual meeting, June 24, 2014 College of the Rockies.


“Every Woman’s Battle: Nellie McClung on War.” Paper presented at UVic Humanities Conference, The First World War: Transnational, Local and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. October 3, 2014, Bay St. Armoury.


“’Friends Don’t let Friends Wear Fringe’: Motorcyclists, Cowboys, and White Male Victimhood” Paper presented at the Western Literatures Association Conference, November 6, 2014, Victoria BC

"I just love Ethel Wilson: A Reparative Reading of The Innocent Traveller.”  English Studies in Canada, 06/2014, Volume 40, Issue 2-3

"The Centennial Voyageur Canoe Pageant as Historical Re-enactment” Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes, 04/2007, Volume 40, Issue 3

Researching Sara Jeannette Duncan in the papers of A. P. Watt and Company
Canadian Literature, 2003
 
Managing diversity in the representation of BC history: Point Ellice House and "Chinatown"
BC Studies, 12/2002, Issue 136

Cover of Inheriting a Canoe Paddle: the Canoe in Discourses of English-Canadian NationalistInheriting a Canoe Paddle: the Canoe in Discourses of English-Canadian Nationalist

University of Toronto Press, 2013
A study of recreational canoeing and "canoe mythology" in Canada, and the way that it is mobilized to produce settler innocence and justify Canadian sovereignty.


Cover of A Different Point of View: Sara Jeannette DuncanA Different Point of View: Sara Jeannette Duncan

McGill-Queen's UP, 1991
This book argues that Duncan's attitude to gender relations and imperial-colonial politics was shaped by the values of her Canadian upbringing. Duncan published over 20 books during her lifetime (1861-1922), which were distinguished by their detailed description of domestic life in Canada and India, and their ironic sense of humour.


Cover of Practicing FemininityPractising Femininity

U Toronto P, 1998
A study of femininity in early Canadian novels, emphasizing the element of gender performance in the New World; includes chapters on Moodie, Traill, Leprohon, McClung, Ross, and others.

Cover of Early Canadian Short StoriesEarly Canadian Short Stories

Tecumseh, 2000
A collection of stories from before WWI, along with some essays by the authors and a selection of contemporary criticism on the short story as genre.



Cover of The Imperialist by Sara Jeannette DuncanThe Imperialist, by Sara Jeannette Duncan

Broadview, 2005
This edition of Duncan's most popular book includes footnotes designed for undergraduate use. The appendices illuminate Duncan's literary technique and her political views, and include recipes for pickled pears and scalloped oysters!