Professor Dr. Susan Spearey

Biography

Susan Spearey is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Brock University. She is affiliated with the MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies and the PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities. With a focus on Anticolonial/Decolonial Studies, Trauma Studies, Emancipatory Social Climate Justice Movements, Critical Pedagogy, and Environmental Humanities, her scholarship explores the intersections of trauma studies, anti-colonial studies, social justice equity studies, literary studies, and the arts. In recent years, Susan has increasingly engaged with the Environmental Humanities, Traditional Indigenous Knowledges, Abolition Feminism, and Healing Justice, particularly in response to the escalating climate crisis. She draws from the insights of notable scholars such as Eve Tuck and Michael Rothberg in her theoretical and pedagogical practices, emphasizing desire-based research paradigms and multi-directional memory. Through her work, she aims to foster alternative practices of knowledge generation that promote individual and collective flourishing, challenging the confines of the medical and prison industrial complexes.

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