Biography
James Hahn (they/them) is a queer, non-binary settler currently teaching courses in English and Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University. Their research focuses on settler and Indigenous literatures and historiography in Canada.
Publications
“Documentary Ethics, Para-Judicial Fantasies, and the Transgressive Desires of Lynn Crosbie’s Paul’s Case.” Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 47, no. 02, 2022, pp. 237-54.
“‘It Should Never Have Occurred’: Documentary Appropriation, Resistant Reading, and the Ethical Ambivalence of McAlmon’s Chinese Opera.” Canadian Literature 237, Spring 2019, pp. 85-100.
Education
2021 Ph.D., English, University of Toronto
Dissertation: “Towards an Ethics of Reading: The Canadian Documentary Long Poem”
2011 M.A., English, Carleton University
2010 B.A., English, Highest Honours, Carleton University
Teaching
CANA1001: Contemporary Canada
CANA1011: Representing Canada
CANA2211: Media & Popular Culture in Canada
CANA2501: Contemporary Indigenous Issues
CANA3201: Culture of the Maritimes
CANA4611: Imagining Canada
ENGL1801: Intro to Prose Fiction
ENGL2801: Intro to Canadian Literature
ENGL3831: Queer Literature in Canada
ENGL3991: Indigenous Literatures in Canada
Research
Twentieth and twenty-first century Canadian literatures; Indigenous literatures in Canada; documentary; the archival turn; the long poem in Canada; criminal justice narratives.
Grants, awards & honours
2016 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto)
2016 Dr. Ranbir Singh Khanna Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Canadian Studies (University of Toronto; declined)
2015 Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Canadian Studies (University of Toronto)
2015 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (University of Toronto)
2010 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Carleton University)
2010 Vic Mallet Scholarship (Carleton University)