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Ph.D., Simon Fraser University,
1986, Department of English, Canadian Literature.
B.A.,
Simon Fraser University, 1982, Department of English,
Canadian Literature. (Minor: German).
Professor in the Department of
Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Saskatchewan.
Born in North Winnipeg in 1943, Diana Relke served in the Canadian military (RCN) from 1962 to 1967. She then pursued a music career in Vienna and New York, leaving to begin undergraduate studies in English and German at Capilano College, North Vancouver, in 1976. She completed her doctorate in English Studies at Simon Fraser University in 1986 where she also taught in the Departments of English and Women's Studies. As a Canada Research Fellow from 1987 to 1992, she received her interdisciplinary training at the University of Calgary, where she taught in the Canadian Studies and Women's Studies Programs. Professor Relke is founding member of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Saskatchewan.
Dr. Relke was noted as most popular professor at the University of Saskatchewan in the yearly update of Canadian Universities conducted by Mclean's magazine (2004).
Her research interests include cultural, feminist, and psychoanalytic theory; literary ecology and science studies; American popular culture, including literary and cinematic science fiction, technotheory, cyberpunk and Christian fundamentalism; and, most recently, the new Jewish cultural studies. Her scholarship has appeared in numerous Canadian and British journals, and she is author of Drones, Clones, & Alpha Babes: Retrofitting Star Trek's Humanism, Post-9/11 (U of Calgary P, forthcoming); Greenwor(l)ds: Ecocritical Essays on Poetry by Canadian Women (University of Calgary Press, 1999); and editor of The CRIAW Reader: Papers on Literary Productions by Canadian Women (CRIAW/ICREF, 1992). She is currently researching a genealogy of antisemitism and misogny.
Dr. Relke welcomes comments on any of the conference papers linked below. She can be reached at diana.relke@usask.ca
Diana Relke received Bread and Roses Award at International Women's Day Brunch, March 2007 (plus photos of other activities at the brunch).
Antisemitism and the Middle East Conflict: Why Should Women's Studies Care? (2002)
Making America Safe: A View from Cultural Studies in WGSt (2001)
"Tracing the Roots of Racism: What Can Canadians Learn from Americans?" (2001).
"Reversing the Field: Father-Figure / Mother-Ground and the Reproduction of Patriarchy" (2000).
"Invisible Israel: A Personal and Political Journey in God's Country." (1999).
"Doubletalk and Other Languages of Diversity at the People's University." (1998).
"In Celebration of Doomsday: The End of Science and the Beginning of Equity." (1998).
"Feminism Doesn't Live Here Any More: Women's Studies in North America." (1996).
"Feminist Pedagogy and the Integration of Knowledge: Toward a More Interdisciplinary University." (1994).
"Is There Life After Difference? Gender Essentialism, Gender Scepticism, and the Ethic of Care." (1992).
Telephone: (306) 966-2398
Fax: (306) 966-4559
E-mail: diana.relke@usask.ca
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