Department of English

Jennifer Burwell
Associate Professor
PhD, Northwestern University

Office: JOR 1010
Phone: 416-979-5000 ext 6133
E-mail: jburwell@ryerson.ca

Dr. Jennifer Burwell received her B.A. from Queen's University at Kingston, and her M.A./PhD from Northwestern University. She joined Ryerson University's Department of English in 1997, and has been involved with the York/Ryerson Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture since its inception. Her research spans a wide range of interests, including: utopian literature and the utopian impulse in contemporary critical theory; gender studies; media and communications; and science and technology in popular culture. Her current book project investigates media representations of 20th and 21st advances in physics, from Hiroshima to quantum and chaos theory.

Selected Publications:

• Image and Territory: Essays on Atom Egoyan. Ed. (with Monique Tschofen) Wilfred Laurier UP, 2007.
• Notes on Nowhere: Utopian Logic, Feminism, and Social Transformation. Minnesota:  University of Minnesota Press, American Culture Series, Minnesota, 1997