Amber DeanProfessor, English & Cultural Studies
Overview
Dr. Amber Dean's research focuses on public mourning, violence, and cultural memory, engaging with the fields of trauma and memory studies, cultural studies, feminist and queer theory, and critical settler colonial studies. She also investigates how creative forms of cultural production (fiction, art, photography, film, performance) disrupt and reframe common-sense understandings of whose lives …
Areas of Expertise
Critical identity, ethnic and race studiesCritical study of literatureCultural studiesSocial oppression and marginalizationSocial relationsStudies of Canadian societyVisual arts and media artsAnti OppressionCritical Race TheoryCultural StudiesDecolonizationGenderGender and SexualitiesGender ViolenceHistory, Temporality, and TimeInterdisciplinaryRace and GenderSocial InequalitiesSocial JusticeViolence
McMaster Affiliations
Contact
deanamb@mcmaster.ca
(905) 525-9140 ext. 23725