Heather Snell

Title: Associate Professor
Office: 2A31
Email: h.snell@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Heather Snell specializes in critical theory, cultural studies, and children’s, Canadian, and postcolonial literature. She is a member of the Centre for Young People’s Texts and Cultures, housed at the University of Winnipeg, and a co-founder and former editor of the interdisciplinary journal Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. She is also a member of the Manitoba Walls to Bridges (W2B) collective, which is committed to providing access to education for incarcerated peoples. She is an Advisory Board Member for the journal Studies in Canadian Literature (SCL). Her current research projects examine feminist speculative filmic, televisual, and literary fiction and children’s and young adult (YA) climate fiction. She is co-editor (with Lorna Hutchison) of Cultural Memory in Texts for and about Children (Routledge, 2014) and has published on science fiction, dystopian young-adult fiction, and representations of young people in film and literature. She earned two degrees at Western University -- a Ph.D. in English and an M.A. in Theory and Criticism – and has a B.A. in English from the University of Guelph. 

Teaching Areas:

Children's literature; critical theory; postcolonial literatures and cultures.

Courses: