Mike Hayden Brazil Canada Knowledge Exchange
Channel: centregcs
Date: 2014-05-21

Department of English, Film, and Theatre 
Graduate Studies
University of Manitoba 
Winnipeg -- MB, Canada
http://umanitoba.ca/
ORATURE: PRE-MODERN LITERATURE AND DE-COLONIAL PRACTICE/RITUAL
I am a Master's Student entering the second year of my studies. My areas of research include the intersections of the oral and the written, language representation, logic and semantics, realism, metaphor, poetry, satire/humor, the social imaginary and identity. Like BRCAKE, I am concerned with how English is taught (especially in Western Canada (having experience as a marker)). This interest includes the construction and acceptance of English as the normative language on the prairies even though the prairies are historically rich with migrant and aboriginal cultures. Additionally, I am interested in how English or global-Englishes develop and change; and what English means, represents and/or signifies. Engaging and respecting different national, ethnic, local social imaginary, I wonder how much the perception of Englsih is equated with English-ness (either British or USAian) and Capitalism/Globalization and is tied into concepts of race, class and gender.