We invite you to join us Thursday, March 20th, 2025 for this year’s Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship (RMPP) Lecture! The current holder, Dr. Philip Kaisary welcomes Dr. Carolyn Ownbey (Golden Gate University, Associate Professor, Department of English) to deliver her talk, titled “Literary Trials and the Possibility of Justice” (abstract below). The lecture begins at 4:00pm, Room 2017 Dunton Tower (Carleton University), with a Q&A to follow!

Dr. Carolyn Ownbey (she/her) is a scholar of anticoloniality, citizenship, and human rights in literature and other media since the mid-20th century. She is presently Assistant Professor at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, where she previously served as Chair of English, Communications, and Literature and Faculty Director of the Degrees+ Programs. Her scholarship and teaching focus on anticolonial literature and other media; law, human rights and narrative; and theories of democracy and citizenship. Her current book in progress is an interdisciplinary project focused on questions of law, human and civil rights, nation, and state in several modes of political resistance writing since 1945.