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Berkeley Kaite

Berkeley Kaite
Contact Information
Phone: 
514 398 4647
Email address: 
berkeley.kaite [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

McGill University
Department of English
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Arts Building
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5 CANADA

Group: 
Faculty Members
Position: 
Associate Professor & Joint Honours Advisor
Stream: 
Cultural Studies
Degree(s): 

B.A. (Concordia); M.A. (McMaster); Ph.D. (Carleton), Associate Professor

Area(s): 
Contemporary
Cinema
Theory
Postmodernism
Teaching areas: 

Feminist cultural studies; cultural memory and popular media; the body.

Taught previously at: 

Carleton University, Simone de Beauvoir Institute - Concordia University.

Current research: 

Cultural memory and popular media.

Selected publications: 

Editor, Menstruation Now: What Does Blood Perform? (Demeter, 2019)

“Bloody Jackie: how menstrual blood speaks for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s silence” in Menstruation Now: What Does Blood Perform? (2019)

“Camelot: the violence and the ecstasy,” Teorija in Praksa. 5-6, Sept-Dec (2013)

“Fetish Operations in the Photographs of Sally Mann,” Mothering and Psychoanalysis, ed., Petra Bueskens. Toronto: Demeter Press (2014)

Reviews of Canadian Cultural Poesis; Caught: Montréal’s Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-194;, and, Types of Canadian Women in Canadian Literature

Pornography and Difference (1995)

“The Pink Suit: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Celebrity Defilement,” Celebrity Studies. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/uN9f2TeZeJCbqffq83Qh/full

 

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship.
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