Brenna MacDougall

Brenna MacDougall has a background in visual arts and English literature. She holds an MA in Studies in Comparative Literatures and Arts from Brock University. During her studies there her researched was focused on time and temporality in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and Samuel Beckett's Endgame. However, her primary interest shifted towards the theoretical and is now focused on interrogating how "the public" is conceptualized. Her current research is directed towards critiquing the longstanding anthropocentrism inherent in the public and finding ways for nonhuman beings and the broader environment to become visible as integral parts of what constitutes a public.

Her other interests include: Joyce, Sterne, and Rabelais, Dialectics and post-political critique, the Arts and Crafts movement and the Pre-Raphaelites, Giordano Bruno, and whatever research rabbit hole she has currently fallen down (of which there are many).