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As a two-time academic All-American, Amanda attended the University of Tampa on an NCAA swimming scholarship, later completing her MSc. and Ph.D. in Kinesiology at the University of Calgary (2006). Amanda’s applied research and teaching at StFX involve designing, implementing, and evaluating community-based participatory action research in the field of disability and health. She follows evidence...

Conall is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Literature. He arrived at StFX from the University of Melbourne, where he was an Early Career Academic Fellow in French Studies. He received his PhD in French Studies from Cornell University, with a dissertation entitled Identity Out of Place: Flaubert, Beckett, Godard, and the Subject of Modernism.

Sutapa Chattopadhyay is a cross-appointed faculty member in Women’s and Gender Studies and Development Studies at St. Francis Xavier University, a research fellow at the Brian Mulroney Institute of Governance, and an editor of Interface (a Journal for and about social movements). Prior to joining StFX, she has worked at various social science and health faculties at universities and research...

Dr. John Corbit is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and a Jules Léger Research Scholar in Humanities and Social Science at St. Francis Xavier University. He earned his M.A. in Psychology from Concordia University and later completed his Ph.D. in Psychology at Simon Fraser University. Before joining St.FX, Dr. Corbit held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Psychology and...

Dr. Cormack studies state formation in Canada, especially in terms of how the state makes itself appealing to citizens. She has published a book on this topic (with J. Cosgrave) called, Desiring Canada: CBC Contests, Hockey Violence, and Other Stately Pleasures (University of Toronto Press, 2013). She has also explored the intersection of celebrity and state in the case of the Jian Ghomeshi...