Teresa Heffernan
Teresa Heffernan is Professor of English Language and Literature at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS
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Dr. Heffernan served as Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellow at the University of Toronto Jackman Humanities Institute during the Winter 2024 term, where she worked on a project entitled “Intelligence in the Absence of Life.” In 2022-23, she was a research fellow at the Kate Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at the University of Heidelberg. From 2019 to 2020 she was a visiting professor at the Ethics of AI Lab, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto. She teaches courses in literary theory, the contemporary novel, modernism, postmodernism, short fiction, and travel writing. Her current area of research is on how the field of robotics and artificial intelligence is shaped by fiction. She is series editor (with Cathrine Hasse and Kathleen Richardson) for Palgrave MacMillan’s Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI. In that series she is editor of the forthcoming: Cyborg Futures: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. She is author of Post-Apocalyptic Culture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel (University of Toronto Press, 2008/2012) and Veiled Figures: Women, Modernity, and the Spectres of Orientalism (University of Toronto Press, 2016). She is co-editor (with Daniel O’Quinn) of a critical edition of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2012). She is series editor, with Reina Lewis, of Cultures in Dialogue developed with SSHRC research funding. She is co-editor (with Jill Didur) of a special issue of Cultural Studies entitled “Revisiting the Subaltern in the New Empire” and of a special issue of Cultural Critique (with Jill Didur and Bart Simon) on “Posthumanism.” Her articles have appeared in journals such as Studies in the Novel, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Arab Journal for the Humanities, Subject Matters, Canadian Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, English Studies in Africa, and Framework: Journal of Cinema and Media.
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