Dawne McCance explained

Dawne McCance
Birth Date:2 June 1944
Alma Mater:University of Manitoba (BSc, MA, PhD)
Thesis Year:1986
Discipline:Derrida studies
Sub Discipline:Critical animal studies
Workplaces:University of Manitoba

Dawne C. McCance (born 1944) is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba. In 2019, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Career

McCance joined the faculty of Religious Studies at her alma mater, the University of Manitoba, in 1986.[1] She soon edited Life Ethics in World Religions and Unions[2] and published Medusa's Ear and Posts: Re-Addressing the Ethical.[3] Her 1996 book Posts: Re-Addressing the Ethical addressed the "significance of postmodern discourses on the ethical and the ethical significance of postmodern discourses in general."[4]

By 2007, McCance was promoted to Distinguished Professor of Arts and Religion.[5] Later, as a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, McCance published Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction through the State University of New York Press.[6] This book focused on issues concerning the fledgling discipline of "Animal Studies" which include questions regarding animal rights, animal experimentation and farming, posthumanist challenges to traditional ethical discourse, and the role fiction, visual art, and architecture have on humans compassion towards animals.[7] She was Editor of Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal for eighteen years .[8]

In 2019, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada[9] and published The Reproduction of Life Death: Derrida’s La vie la mort.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Coward . Harold . Fifty Years of Religious Studies in Canada: A Personal Retrospective . November 7, 2014 . Wilfrid Laurier University Press . 9781771121033 . 98 . February 24, 2020.
  2. Bourgeois . Michael . Reviews of books: Life Ethics in World Religions and Unions: Dawne C. McCance . Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses . June 1, 2000 . 29 . 2 . 10.1177/000842980002900227 .
  3. Web site: Faculty / Staff News . umanitoba.ca . February 25, 2020 . 7 . 2005.
  4. Hall . W. David . Posts: Re Addressing the Ethical by Dawne McCance . The Journal of Religion . 1997 . 77 . 3 . 647–648 . 10.1086/490094 . 1206776 .
  5. Web site: Distinguished Professors & Distinguished Professors Emeritus . umanitoba.ca . February 24, 2020.
  6. Web site: First Introduction to Critical Animal Studies Published . oxfordanimalethics.com . February 25, 2020 . February 4, 2013.
  7. Shakespeare . Steven . Reviewed Work(s): Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction by Dawne McCance . Journal of Animal Ethics . 2014 . 4 . 2 . 110–111 . University of Illinois Press. 10.5406/janimalethics.4.2.0110 . 10.5406/janimalethics.4.2.0110 .
  8. Book: Klaus Martens . The Canadian Alternative . 2004 . Königshausen & Neumann . 9783826026362 . 105 . February 25, 2020.
  9. Web site: One new RSC Fellow, one new RSC College member . news.umanitoba.ca . February 25, 2020 . September 10, 2019.
  10. Web site: Yang . Dong . Dawne McCance: The Reproduction of Life Death: Derrida's La vie la mort . reviews.ophen.org . February 25, 2020 . February 1, 2020.