Susie O'Brien
Professor, English & Cultural Studies

selected scholarly activity

• book reviews

  • Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals and the Environment.  Ed. 5.4.  2009
  • “The Micropolitics of Slow Living.” Review of Slow Living,.  Ed. 13.2.  2007
  • “Speed Kills.” Review of No Time: Stress and the Crisis of Modern Life,”.  Ed. 15.  2006
  • Escaping the Speed Trap Review of In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed.  Ed. 186.  2005
  • Review of Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter,.  Ed. 28.  2001
  • “Back to the Physical World.” Review of The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology, ed. Cheryl Glotfelty and Harold Fromm, and Deep Currents: Roderick and Ann HaigBrown,.  Ed. 164.  2000
  • “Closing the Gap Between Word and World: A Review of Diana Relke’s Greenwor(l)ds.”.  Ed. 46.  2000

• books

  • Glocal Narratives of Resilience 2019
  • Popular Culture A User's Guide 2017
  • Time and Globalization An Interdisciplinary Dialogue 2017
  • Time, Globalization and Human Experience Interdisciplinary Explorations 2016
  • Time, Globalization and Human Experience: Interdisciplinary Explorations 2016
  • Popular Culture A User's Guide 2013
  • Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century 2011
  • Postcolonial America 2000

• chapters

  • Introduction.  1-12. 2018
  • Resilience..  281-284. 2017
  • The Edgework of the Clerk: Resilience in Arundhati Roy’s Walking with the Comrades.  207-224. 2015
  • The Edgework of the Clerk: Resilience in Arundhati Roy's Walking with the Comrades.  189-206. 2015
  • Postcolonialism and the Environment 2013
  • Nature's Nation, National Natures? Reading Ecocriticism in a Canadian Context (1998).  167-195. 2013
  • No Debt Outstanding’: The Postcolonial Politics of Local Food 2011
  • "No Debt Outstanding" The Postcolonial Politics of Local Food.  231-246. 2011
  • Anti-Fascist Gluttons of the World Unite! The Cultural Politics of Slow Food.  219-239. 2010
  • 'Back to the World': Reading Ecocriticism in a Postcolonial Context.  177-199. 2007
  • Back to the World’: Reading Ecocriticism in a Postcolonial Context 2007
  • New Postnational Narratives, Old American Dreams; Or, the Problem with Coming-of-Age Stories.  65-80. 2000

• exhibitions

  • Ventolin

• journal articles

  • “Participate or Perish”: Reckoning with the time bind of graduate student life.  Time & Society.  32:292-300. 2023
  • A History of Environmental Futurity: Special Issue Introduction.  Resilience: a journal of the environmental humanities.  4:1-1. 2017
  • Resilience Stories: Narratives of Adaptation, Refusal, and Compromise.  Resilience: a journal of the environmental humanities.  4:43-43. 2017
  • Exploring the Intersection of Time and Globalization.  Globalizations.  13:243-255. 2016
  • ‘We Thought the World Was Makeable’: Scenario Planning and Postcolonial Fiction.  Globalizations.  13:329-344. 2016
  • “Graceful Failure”: The Privatization of Resilience.  Review of Education, Pedagogy, & Cultural Studies, The.  36:260-273. 2014
  • Creative Destruction and a Sliver of Hope.  Resilience: a journal of the environmental humanities.  1. 2014
  • HIV/AIDS, aging and globalization: New directions in time perspective work.  An interdisciplinary forum on time and globalization: Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition Working Paper Series3 : McMaster University.  34-38. 2012
  • Resilient Virtue and the Virtues of Resilience: Post-Bhopal Ecology in Animal's People.  Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing.  34:23-31. 2012
  • Canadian Literary Environments.  CANADIAN LITERATURE.  2010:118-120. 2010
  • Superfluous Words: Ecological and Cultural Resilience in Things Fall Apart.  Postcolonial Text.  5. 2009
  • SURVIVAL STRATEGIES FOR GLOBAL TIMES.  Interventions.  9:83-98. 2007
  • 'In praise of slow'. How a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed..  CANADIAN LITERATURE.  143-144. 2005
  • On Death and Donuts: Irony and Ecology after September 11.  Cultural Critique.  58:148-167. 2004
  • The garden and the world: Jamaica Kincaid and the cultural borders of ecocriticism.  Mosaic.  35:167-184. 2002
  • Articulating a world of difference: Ecocriticism, postcolonialism and globalization.  CANADIAN LITERATURE.  170-171:140-158. 2001
  • Introduction: The Globalization of Fiction/the Fiction of Globalization.  South Atlantic Quarterly.  100:603-626. 2001
  • Deep currents: Roderick Haig-Brown and Ann Haig-Brown.  CANADIAN LITERATURE.  154-156. 2000
  • The ecocriticism reader: Landmarks in literary ecology.  CANADIAN LITERATURE.  154-156. 2000
  • The place of America in an era of postcolonial imperialism.  Ariel: A Review of International English Literature.  29:159-183. 1998
  • Nature's Nation, National Natures? Reading Ecocriticism in a Canadian Context.  Canadian Poetry.  42:17-41. 1998
  • Serving a New World Order: Postcolonial Politics in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day.  MFS: Modern Fiction Studies.  42:787-806. 1996
  • 'Please Eunice, Don't Be Ignorant': The White Reader as Trickster in Lee Maracle's Fiction.  CANADIAN LITERATURE.  144:82-96. 1995
  • Lying Back and Thinking of England: Sex and Nationalism in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley.  Revue Frontenac Review.  10-11:54-79. 1993
  • Raising Silent Voices: The Role of the Silent Child in An Imaginary Life and The Bone People.  SPAN: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies.  30:79-91. 1990
  • The Micropolitics of Slow Living.  Cultural Studies Review.  13:237-241.

• other

  • Encyclopedia of Global Studies - Google Books
  • Fueling Culture.  Fordham University Press.
  • Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment: Wenzel, Jennifer, Yaeger, Patricia, Szeman, Imre: 9780823273911: Books - Amazon.ca
  • “Back to the World”: Reading Ecocriticism in a Postcolonial Context in: Five Emus to the King of Siam

• presentations

  • “The Story You Don’t Want to Tell”: Decolonial Resilience in Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle 2018
  • “The Political Aesthetics of Adaptability.” 2018
  • “From Globalization to Anti-Colonial Planetarity: The Idea of Resilience in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book.” 2017
  • “Apparently happy people”: Trauma, mental health and Indigenous resilience in Leanne Simpson’s Islands of Decolonial Love 2017
  • “‘It's been the end of the world for somebody all along’: the Anthropocene, settler-colonialism and Indigenous resilience.” 2017
  • “What Do We (Not) Talk About When We Talk About Climate Change?” 2016
  • “Resilience Narratives” 2016
  • “The Future We Want?” 2015
  • Something (good) may surprise us': Resilience and Environmental Justice in Rita Wong and Larissa Lai's sybil unrest 2014
  • “Postcolonial Ecocriticism.” 2013
  • Postcolonial Resilience." Roundtable: Natures of Empire: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities. 2013
  • On the Edge of Resilience: The Postcolonial Environment in Arundhati Roy's Work 2013
  • The Downside of Up, or: What's the Matter With Resilience? 2012
  • Not Eating the Other: The Etiquette and Ecology of Local Food 2011
  • No Debt Outstanding;: The Postcolonial Ecology of Local Food. 2009
  • “Black Swans and Slum Dogs: The Postcolonial Politics of Resilience” in the Department of Media 2009
  • “Superfluous Words: Ecological and Cultural Resilience in Things Fall Apart.” 2008
  • Roundtable on Katherine Morrison’s Canadians Are Not Americans: Myths and Literary Traditions. 2005
  • “Mock the Vote vs. Rock the Vote.” 2004
  • A Walk in the Desert: Survival Strategies for the Long Emergency 2004
  • “Getting Back to (Human) Nature: Articulating Natural and Cultural Identities in a Global World.” 2001
  • “`Back to the World’: Reading Ecocriticism in a Postcolonial Context.” 1998