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Dr. Sneja Gunew

Affiliation

The University of British Columbia

Academy or College

Academy of the Arts and Humanities

Year Elected

2002

Areas of Interest

Multicultural, postcolonial, feminist, critical theory, cultural theory.

Sneja Gunew is a leading international scholar of postcolonial and multicultural feminist cultural studies. She has emerged as one of Canada's most thought-provoking interpreters of how comparative multicultural studies function in global and national contexts. Her contributions also give unprecedented voice to both the longings and the resistances of ethnic minority groups and women marginalized by traditional discourses.