Assistant Professor (joint Political Studies and Philosophy)
B.A. (University of Alberta), M.A. (University of Victoria), Ph.D. (University of Michigan)
Office: ECS 121 Phone: (705) 748-1011 x6371, Email: janicefeng@trentu.ca
Janice Feng is Assistant Professor of Political Studies and Philosophy. She teaches courses on the history of political thought, contemporary political theory, social and political philosophy. Her research interests lie in the history of political thought, settler colonial studies and Indigenous political thought, feminist and queer theory, critical theory and continental philosophy, and post-colonial political thought. As a feminist political theorist, her research engages with questions of subjectivity and subjection, embodiment, desire, affect, and resistance, in the contexts of empire, settler colonialism and decolonization in Turtle Island and Asia-Pacific.
Her current book-project examines desire–affective and embodied attachments–as both a dense site of colonial imaginary and investment, and a locus of decolonial politics and Indigenous resistance. Engaging in archival and primary materials, she examines how Indigenous women in the founding and consolidating period of settler-colonization in northeastern Turtle Island engaged in various embodied practices, ranging from ascetic practices to agricultural labor to writing, to pursue their self-making and stage unique forms of anti-colonial resistance. Her other lines of ongoing research include examining early modern French neoclassical drama as a crucial site of imperial ideological formation, and exploring racial and gender embodiment through feminist and queer phenomenological approaches
Her published works can be found in History of European Ideas, Theory & Event, and Revue internationale de philosophie.
Janice received her PhD in Political Science (Political Theory) from the University of Michigan in 2023. She also holds a BA in Political Science and Philosophy (double major with distinction) from the University of Alberta, and a MA in Political Science and Cultural, Social, and Political Thought from the University of Victoria.
You can find more information about her research and teaching on her website.