Amelia DeFalco
- Awarded a SSHRC (Banting) Postdoctoral Fellowship, McMaster University (2011)
- Winner of the John Charles Polanyi Prize in Literature from the Ontario Council of Graduate Studies (2009)
- Awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, McMaster University
Publications
"Caretakers/Caregivers: Economies of Affection in Alice Munro."
Twentieth-Century Literature. Forthcoming.
"Moral Obligation, Disordered Care: The Ethics of Caregiving in Margaret Atwood's
Moral Disorder."
Contemporary Literature 52. 2 (2011): forthcoming.
Uncanny Subjects: Aging in Contemporary Narrative. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010.
“‘And then—’: Narrative Identity and Uncanny Aging in
The Stone Angel.”
Canadian Literature 198 (Autumn 2008): 75-89.
“Haunting Physicality: Corpses, Cannibalism, and Carnality in Margaret Atwood’s
Alias Grace.”
University of Toronto Quarterly 75.2 (Spring 2006): 771-783.
“Jungle Creatures and Dancing Apes: Modern Primitivism and Nella Larsen’s
Quicksand.”
Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 38.2 (June 2005): 19-35.
“A Double-Edged Longing: Nostalgia, Melodrama, and Todd Hayne’s
Far from Heaven.”
The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 5 (2004): 26-39.
Doctoral thesis: “Strangely Familiar: Uncanny Aging in Contemporary Literature and Film”
Research and Teaching Interests
Canadian Literature; Contemporary Literature; Cinema Studies; Aging Studies; Ethics of Care.
E-mail:
amelia.defalco@utoronto.ca
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