Dr. Karen Engle
Professor, School of Creative Arts
Armouries, room 219
Professor, School of Creative Arts
Armouries, room 219
kengle@uwindsor.ca
Research interests: I’m a writer and researcher with an interdisciplinary background in English and Sociology. I specialize in cultural theory and visual culture, with an interest in the history of photography.
My most recent book, 2023, is Chronic Conditions, a memoir exploring experiences of chronic pain. In 2018, Dr. Yoke-Sum Wong and I published our co-edited book, Feelings of Structure: Explorations in Affect. This volume collects work by writers from multiple disciplines, each of whom explores impacts and encounters with various structures, both physical and intangible. My first book, Seeing Ghosts: 9/11 and the Visual Imagination (2009), traces historical echoes found in imagery that resonated during the initial aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks in 2001. It explores how the work of mourning was conceptualized at the national level, and how certain images were deemed unfit for purposes of commemoration while others were held up as icons of American strength.
Graduate Students: I am interested in supervising graduate students working within and across the fields of memory, affect, and contemporary art (especially photography)
Education:
PhD in Sociology (University of Alberta)
MA, English (University of Alberta)
BA(H), English (Queen’s University)