BRENNAN
MCCRACKEN
mccracken.brennan@gmail.com
PhD candidate, Department of English, Concordia University
I am a researcher and writer with interests in modern and contemporary fiction; postcolonial studies; critical theory; and the environmental humanities.
My dissertation, titled “Textual turbulence: Settler colonialism and the refiguration of ecology in the contemporary novel,” examines an emerging literary imagination of settler-colonial ecologies through formal expressions of impermanence, obfuscation, and separation. Through close readings of novels by Indigenous writers working in the settler states of Canada and Australia, I argue that these formal strategies—which I track across figurations of ice, haze, and chasms—index how the language of ecology has underwritten techniques of state control, surveillance, and disposession.
My work is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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