The Daniel-Johnson Dam, located 214 km north of Baie-Comeau, Quebec. Foto: Bouchecl 20:56, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Her fields of interest are environmental humanities, literature and material culture.

Rūta teaches a number of courses on literary theory and English-language literature and carries out research in the fields of Canadian and Antipodean literature, memory studies, and the new materialism. Among her recent publications are “Pro Pele Cutem: On the Subject(s) of Extraction in Fred Stenson’s The Trade” in Canadian Literature. Poetics and Extraction and “Waking the Witness and Witnessing the Wake in David Dabydeen’s Turner” in the collective monograph The Hook of Desire – Slavery and David Dabydeen’s Turner edited by Lynne Macedo.

The lecture will be based on the chapter of Rūta Šlapkauskaitė published in the book Nordic and Baltic Perspectives in Canadian Studies. The book is available in open access on: https://www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/books/e/10.16993/bci/

The chapter of Rūta Šlapkauskaitė is available on https://www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/chapters/e/10.16993/bci.f/

The open lecture is free. To obtain the Zoom link for the lecture, please contact ccs@su.se

Language: English, online