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Louise Harrington is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English & Film Studies at the University of Alberta's Faculty of Arts. She holds a PhD and MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and a BA from Trinity College Dublin. Her research bridges postcolonial studies, critical border studies, and conflict studies with a focus on South Asia, Ireland/Northern Ireland, and Palestine/Israel. She leads SSHRC-funded interdisciplinary research on 'Cultural Peace Work in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland' and explores intersections between literature, spatial theory, and partition legacies.
Her teaching portfolio includes courses on postcolonial literature, migration narratives, border aesthetics, and the role of literature in religion and conflict. Recent courses include ENGL 103: Case Studies in Research, ENGL 223: Reading Empire and the Postcolonial, and ENGL 481: Borders, Lines and Walls. Her research interests encompass geocriticism, partition studies, and the role of humor in conflict writing.
Key projects include analyzing literary and cinematic depictions of 20th-century partitions, examining Kurdish cultural identity in Canada, and investigating the function of cultural forms in peacebuilding. Her work integrates spatial theory with postcolonial critique to interrogate borders as both physical and conceptual divides.
