Tatjana Takševa
Faculty of Arts
English Language & Literature
Professor
Chairperson of the Academic Senate
Office: McNally North 319
Email: tatjana.takseva@smu.ca
Tatjana's research interests and expertise cover a wide range of topics within women and gender studies, such as sexual violence, trauma studies, feminist theory, feminist philosophy and the ethics of care, cultural representations of motherhood, maternal ambivalence and feminist mothering. Her training and past research are based in book history, manuscript studies and linguistics. Methodologically, her research has been interdisciplinary for over two decades, and her publications include topics in early modern literature and culture, nation building and identity politics, intercultural competence and communication, globalization, and digital media. The thematic range of her published work reflects the scope of her teaching interests.
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Academia.eduCurrently, I am working on a monograph-length study on war trauma survivor narratives and agency in the context of peace-building in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Routledge, forthcoming 2023).
I am also currently engaged as the SMU Research Lead for a provincially-funded interuniversity project on Culture and Sexual Assault Policy (CAPSAP). CAPSAP is multi-phase project that explores international and African Nova-Scotian student responses to the SMU Sexual Violence and Prevention Policy, comparing these to settler Canadian student responses. As a team of researchers and academic staff members across different institutions, we continue to work on developing a plan of engagement that involves Indigenous students on all campus locations. CAPSAP identifies, explores and develops culturally specific and survivor-centric lenses for sexual assault as well as applicable policy and supports.
Ph.D., English, University of Toronto, 2003
M.A., English, University of Toronto, 1998
B.A., English Literature and Humanities, Honours, York University, 1997
B.A., English Language and Literature, University of Belgrade, 1992