Naava Smolash

Naava Smolash
Faculty Instructor
Language, Literature and Performing Arts
English
smolashn@douglascollege.ca

About

Previously, I taught:

  • Studies in Canadian Literature: BC Literature (359), Canadian Literature Since 1920: Prairie Literature (357) at Simon Fraser University;
  • Introduction to Media Studies (Medi 112) at Vancouver Island University.

Professional credentials 

  • TWS, Simon Fraser University

Education and credentials

  • PhD, Simon Fraser
  • MA, Guelph
  • BA, Trent

Research summary

Research areas include contemporary Canadian literature, poetry and poetics, nationalism, race theory, and print news media. My work appears in academic and popular publications including Studies in Canadian Literature, English Studies in Canada, the University of Toronto Quarterly's special issue Discourses of Security, "Peacekeeping" Narratives and the Cultural Imagination in Canada, West Coast Line, LitHub, Room Magazine, and Briarpatch. My essay "The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture" is used in classrooms and counselling centres worldwide. Recent projects include Turn This World Inside Out (AK Press, 2019), papers on representations of land, nation, and borders in Canadian fiction, examining Sinclair Ross' As For Me and My House, Maria Campbell's Halfbreed, Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach and Ethel Wilson's The Innocent Traveller, and a speculative fiction novella entitled Cipher.

Courses taught