Archived Book Chapters

Alzheimer’s, Age Panic, Neuroscience: Media Discourses of Dementia and Care.

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Peer reviewed reference article. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.765. (co-author, 40%: I conducted research, drafted, revised, and worked together to finalize for publication).

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Unsettling Activisms: Critical Interventions on Aging, Gender, and Social Change.

Introduction to Part III: Embodying.

Edited by Melissa Baldwin, May Chazan, and Patricia Evans. Canadian Scholars/Women’s Press, 2018. 124-128. Invited.

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Care Home Stories: Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care.

Care Home Stories: Aging, Disability and Long-Term Residential Care.

Eds. Sally Chivers and Ulla Kriebernegg. Bielefeld: Verlag Transcript, 2017. 11-20. (collaboration equal).

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‘Vampires don’t age, but actors sure do’: The Cult of Youth and the Paradox of Aging in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Serializing Age: Old Age and Ageing in TV.

Edited by Anita Wohlman and Maricel Oro Piqueras. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2015. 89-108. Invited.

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‘There’s a reason we’re here’: Performative Autobiographics and Age Identity in Performer-Created Intergenerational Theatre.

Alive and Kicking at All Ages: Health, Life Expectancy, and Life Course Identity. Age Studies Series.

Edited by Ulla Kriebernegg, Roberta Maierhofer, and Barbara Ratzenböck. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2014. 243-258. (lead author, 95%: I conducted the research and wrote the paper in consultation with the other authors.)

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Adventures of the Spirit:  The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers.

“On the Road Again:  Aritha Van Herk’s No Fixed Address and Suzette Mayr’s The Widows.” 

Ed. Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2007. 200-215. Invited.

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Movie Gods: Great Canadian Movie Directors. 

“Hanging in Plain Sight:  The Problem Body in Thom Fitzgerald’s Films.”

Ed. George Melnyk.  Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2007. 329-344. (collaboration equal).

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Unfitting Stories:  Narrative Approaches to Disability, Disease and Trauma.

“The Silvering Screen: Age and Trauma in Akira Kurasawa’s Rhapsody in August.” 

Ed.  Valerie Raoul, Connie Canam, Angela Henderson, and Carla Paterson.  Waterloo:  Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2007.  97-104.

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Margaret Atwood:  The Open Eye.

Margaret Atwood and the Critical Limits of Embodiment.”   

Ed. Tobi Kozakewich.  Reappraisals series.  Ottawa:  University of Ottawa Press, 2006.  385-396.

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Auto/biography in Canada:  Critical Directions.

“‘This is my memory, a fact’:  The Many Mediations of Mothertalk:  Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka.” 

Ed. Julie Rak.  Waterloo:  Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005. 98-121.

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Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability.  

“The Horror of Becoming ‘One of Us’: Tod Browning’s Freaks and Disability.”

Ed. Chris Smit and Anthony Enns.  Lanham: University Press of America, 2001.  59-66.

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