Dr. Lincoln Shlensky

Lincoln Z. Shlensky is an Associate Professor specializing in cultural and media studies, with a focus on the postcolonial Caribbean, diaspora and Jewish studies, and film.

Dr. Shlensky has published in the journals Callaloo, Prooftexts, La Habana Elegante, and Qui Parle, and in the edited volumes Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World, The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature, and Literature for Our Times: Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century. He has also written reviews in the journals ESC: English Studies in Canada, Shofar, and Poetics Today. He currently is preparing a manuscript entitled "Islands of Memory: The Literary Politics of Aftermaths," which examines modernist literary influences and the politics of traumatic remembrance in postcolonial literatures.

He teaches undergraduate courses in film rhetoric and aesthetics, postcolonial studies, Caribbean literature, American literature, Jewish diasporas, and cultural theory. He has taught graduate seminars in postcolonial literature and theory and in global cinema. His recent course syllabi are available on his website.

Dr. Shlensky is a section editor for the journal Postcolonial Text. He chaired the Caribbean Studies Association's Presidential Task Force on Technology in 2010-11, for which he was awarded the President's Distinguished Service Award in 2011.

He has served as webmaster for the English Department since 2006 and represented the Faculty of Graduate Studies in UVic's Senate Committee on Academic Standards 2010-13. He supervised and served as producer for a series of student-directed films for the English Department, including three short films on first-year writing, and a history of the Department in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the University of Victoria in 2013.

Dr. Shlensky's full cv, teaching materials, and other resources are available at shlensky.com.