Dr. Heather Jessup

Associate Professor

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Biography

Heather Jessup is an accomplished academic and fiction writer, currently serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. Her research interests encompass a range of themes including Creative Writing, Interdisciplinary Writing, Visual Art, and Contemporary Canadian Literature. Jessup's work often intersects with Indigenous pedagogies and anti-colonial discourses, engaging critically with cultural and literary theory. She has published various pieces, including her notable book 'This Hoax: Unsettling Truth Canadian Culture', and has been recognized with multiple awards, such as the Canada Council New Chapter Grant and the SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship. Jessup's teaching philosophy emphasizes the importance of creative literature and the radical acts of empathy and imagination in education.

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Experience

Associate Professor

— Present

Dalhousie University • Halifax, NS

Teaches in the Department of English, focusing on Creative Writing and Interdisciplinary projects.