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Orly Lael Netzer is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream at Carleton University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her academic work centers on testimony, autobiography, and cultural studies with a focus on contemporary Canada. She brings over a decade of university teaching experience to her role, having previously served as an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Alberta (2017-2022) and on the executive committee of the Canadian Literature Centre (2015-2017).
Dr. Netzer earned her Ph.D. from the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on the public work of testimony in contemporary Canada, exploring how audiences bear witness to difficult knowledge through literary, visual, and performance art. She examines the ethical stakes of testimony, relations between communities' protest and societal response, and the politics of recognition, reconciliation, and redress in Canada, thinking through its colonial roots, neo-colonial risks, and de-colonial futurities.
Her publications reveal a consistent focus on testimony, life writing, and Canadian cultural studies. She frequently examines ethical dimensions of bearing witness and the political implications of narrative forms. Recent work increasingly engages with trans studies, transmedia, and transnational approaches, reflecting evolving theoretical frameworks in life writing studies. Her scholarship demonstrates strong interdisciplinary connections between Canadian studies, gender studies, and media studies, with particular attention to Indigenous perspectives and decolonial approaches.
Dr. Netzer has co-edited significant works including Trans Narratives: trans, transmedia, transnational (Routledge, 2021) and edited special issues of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies and Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. Her pedagogy uses critical humanities approaches to explore how cultural production shapes our ways of being with others within and beyond the nation. She approaches her courses as active sites of learning, exploring Canadian Studies as a distinctly political site of inquiry formulated through settler-colonial, diasporic, Indigenous, and transnational histories.
