Susie O'Brien
Professor, English & Cultural Studies

Dr. O’Brien’s research focuses on decolonial, Indigenous and settler-colonial literary and cultural studies and the environmental humanities.

Her areas of graduate supervision include climate, environment and colonialism in literature and culture (especially in settler colonial contexts of Canada, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa and the United States); decolonial and anti-racist approaches to the environmental humanities; and postcolonial cultural studies. She also serves on MA and PhD committees in areas ranging from critical food studies to abolitionism and critical animal studies to extractivism and gender-based violence in the global South.

She is the author of What the World Might Look Like: Decolonial Stories of Resilience and Refusal (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2024); part of a SSHRC Insight Grant-funded collaborative environmental humanities project, Racialized Ecologies in and Beyond Settler-Colonial Canada: Documentary, Speculative, and Poetic Texts and Contexts; and member of international research collectives: Narratives of Happiness and Resilience (RESHAP) and the Reckoning, Repairing and Reworlding Working Collective.
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