Liani Lochner
Department of Literature, Theater and Cinema
Laval University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Liani Lochner joined the Département des littératures in July 2014 after teaching postcolonial and Anglophone world literature at Concordia University. Her research interests are in the fields of world literature and critical theory, especially literary and theoretical responses to power. She is currently working on two projects: the first is on the political promise of literature to disrupt the processes by which discourses of biotechnology, fundamentalism, state racism, and neo-liberal globalization position and interpellate the subject; the second is on the life and writing of South African author, Zoë Wicomb.
Research Interest
Readerly Hospitality Literature, Ethics, and Biopolitics Theories of Subjectivation World Literature and Critical Theory
