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Dr. Emily Fedoruk, Postdoctoral Scholar
Dr. Emily Fedoruk is excited to be back at SFU working within a community that has been so supportive and inspiring for her as a scholar, teacher, and poet. Most recently, she has been teaching at the University of British Columbia and she completed her PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of Minnesota in 2019. Her current book manuscript, Poetry, or Elsewhere: Literature and Public Life in the Twenty-First Century investigates the role of poetry in everyday life, engaging the political economies of urbanism and the contemporary built environment and looking specifically at public installations of poems in commercial space.
As the SpokenWeb Postdoctoral Fellow in the Multimedia Archive at SFU, Emily is also at work on a second project that seeks to identify a constellation of radical postsecondary classes in the arts from the 1960s forward, beginning with Prof. Warren Tallman’s 1963 UBC class ENGL 410: Poetry Writing, which is known more infamously as the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference. Emily’s research and writing has been published in A Feminist Urban Theory for our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban (Wiley Antipode Book Series 2021), and with Vancouver’s 221A Artist-Run Centre. As a poet, as well as publishing in print venues such as PELT, DANDelion and Open Text: Canadian Poetry and Poetics in the 21st Century, she has published in collaboration with artists at BC’s Lake Country Art Gallery and with sculptor Tegan Moore at MKG127 in Toronto. Her poetry collection, All Still, was published in 2008 by Linebooks.
Dr. Yiwen Liu, Postdoctoral Scholar
Dr. Yiwen Liu is a literary scholar concerned with decolonial epistemologies represented in Anglophone and Sinophone literatures. Her teaching and research focus on postcolonial literature and theory, studies of migration and diaspora, studies of Global Asia, as well as Inter-Asia and Transpacific cultural studies. Her book manuscript entitled Cold War Hong Kong: Genres of Everyday Resistance in Sinophone Literature exposes the often invisible complicity between British-American imperialisms and the Chinese authoritarianism in the everyday life of Hong Kong during the Cold War. By examining Sinophone literature written between 1945 and 1989, she shows that ordinary Hong Kong people—postwar local residents, mainland Chinese migrants, and coastal communities across the Southeast Asian waters—forged resistant relationships that undermined such Cold War imperialisms, whose forces continue to shape the globality today. As a postdoctoral fellow in the English Department, she works with Dr. Joanne Leow on the Digital Humanities project entitled “Intertidal Polyphonies” that documents, theorizes, and compares the political artwork in the three coastal sites of Hong Kong, Singapore, and Vancouver. Outside of work, she enjoys drinking tea, playing the piano, jogging, and bouldering.
Personal website: https://yiwenliuwriter.wordpress.com
Professor Cheryl Narumi Naruse
Jack and Nancy Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar in History
An associate professor of English at Tulane University, Naruse's appointment is hosted by the Global Asia Program, with an affiliation with the Department of English between September 1, 2024 and May 31, 2025. Learn more...