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Dr. Daniel Coleman, English, is holder of the Canada Research Chair in Diversity in Canadian Literary Culture. Winner of the 1998 John Charles Polanyi Prize, Dr. Coleman studies how Canadian literature constructs assumed categories of privilege -- an important concept for understanding how norms such as masculinity, whiteness and Englishness came to be assumed categories in anglophone Canada.
Dr. Coleman is a leading researcher in the depiction of immigrant men in Canadian literature. His 1998 book, Masculine Migrations: Reading the Postcolonial Male in "New Canadian" Narratives, is considered the foundational Canadian work in the field.
His research examines how literary texts produce and reinforce categories of cultural identification such as gender, ethnicity and nationality. Dr. Coleman believes that not only do people write books, but that books have a role in writing people.
His research into Canadian literature examines authors who constructed the written version of the Canadian citizen. Coleman says, "Literature not only reflects but also shapes society, so if you want to know what's happening in Canadian culture, read Canadian literature."
Dr. Coleman’s keynote address is entitled "Imposing subCitizenship: Canadian White Civility and the Two Row Wampum of the Six Nations." The paper meditates upon white civility’s assumption of universal equality as a social good, and the ways in which this assumption remains oblivious to Six Nations' (Haudenosaunee) insistence on their status as a self-governing nation.
For more information, go to Daniel Coleman's Home Page
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