Genevieve Sartor | Lakehead University (original) (raw)

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Health and Behavioural Sciences at Lakehead University. I completed a PhD at Trinity College Dublin, and hold an MScR in Critical Theory from the University of Edinburgh, and an Hon. BA in Philosophy and Literature from Concordia University Montreal, both awarded with distinction. My academic background reflects my commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship. My current book length project derived from my PhD thesis (under contract with Bloomsbury, with publication in spring 2025) focuses on a process-based approach to language and theories of mind through the modernist archive. My current work is on supply chain analysis and food procurement in Northern Ontario working with the Sustainable Food Systems Lab at Lakehead University and the Northern Ontario Farm Innovation Alliance.

At Trinity, my research was funded by its most competitive scholarship, the Ussher Award (2015–18). I was a visiting scholar at the James Joyce Foundation in Zürich for July and August 2016 and received an additional scholarship that year to attend the James Joyce Summer School in Trieste, Italy. I won a scholarship to speak at the International James Joyce Symposium in Antwerp, Belgium (June 2018). I was sole organiser of the first symposium based on the life of Lucia Joyce at Trinity College Dublin, which took place April 13 2019 and sold out (80 person capacity). I was a panelist at the James Joyce Centre, Dublin on May 3 2019 as part of Finnegans Wake Week-End and chair on Lucia Joyce as part of Dublin's Bloomsday Festival on June 11 -- both events also sold out (80–100 capacity).

I am sole editor of a volume on James Joyce and Genetic Criticism (Brill | Rodopi, 2018), which explores how Joyce's pre-published material (drafts, notebooks, changes to the typescripts, etc) contributed to his final published works. I have published in the University of Toronto Quarterly, the Journal of Modern Literature, and Deleuze and Guattari Studies. My reviews have featured in The Irish Times, the James Joyce Literary Supplement, the James Joyce Quarterly, Review 31 and The London Magazine. My latest work is forthcoming as a chapter in the anthology Joyce and the Arts with Edinburgh University Press to be published late 2024, and a chapter in Anais Nin and Context with Cambridge University Press to be published in 2025.

At Trinity, I lectured and TA'd on literary modernism, Irish Literature, Joyce's Ulysses and Dubliners, with a specialty in Critical Theory (2016–2019). My classes typically doubled in size during a semester, and I was nominated for the Vice-Provost teaching award in 2019. I am a strong public speaker and passionate teacher. I have spoken at length on Joyce, psychoanalysis, gender, ontology and genetics in Europe and North America at a number of professional conferences. I have been an invited speaker at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (2017), the James Joyce Foundation Zürich (2017), the National University of Ireland, Galway (2018), the University of Oxford (2019).

Due to finishing my PhD at the beginning of the Covid pandemic, my academic career took a standstill, during which time I opened an ingredient-driven restaurant and sourdough bakery on Manitoulin Island in Northern Ontario. Beyond being head chef at my restaurant, I work with Lakehead University as a post-doctoral research fellow and have spoken on the importance of food security in Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in Sudbury (2023), Sault Saint Marie (2024), Temiskaming (2024) and Thunder Bay (2024).

Collaboration, networking and the exchange of ideas across disciplines in order to foster, and facilitate, new forms of knowledge and considered, impactful change is a fundamental part of who I am - both in theory and in practice. If you have any queries, ideas or just want to get in touch, please feel free to write gsartor@lakeheadu.ca

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