Olivia HEANEY

Olivia HEANEY
Contact Information
Email address: 
olivia.heaney [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Biography: 

Olivia Heaney is a PhD Candidate and Course Lecturer in contemporary Canadian cinema and performance. Her dissertation uses approaches from ecocriticism and petroculture to explore the ways Canadian film and theatre have responded to cultural and economic precarity in the age of globalization. She has published in the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies and has worked extensively as a practitioner in the film and theatre industries.

Degree(s): 

Ph.D, McGill University (exp. 2017)
M.A., Memorial University
B.A. (Hons), Memorial University

Current research: 

Contemporary Canadian; Commonwealth literatures; energy humanities and petroculture; ecocriticism; postcolonial.

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