Celiese Lypka

Title:Assistant Professor
Phone:204.258.3823
Office:2A27
Building:Ashdown
Email:c.lypka@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:
Celiese Lypka (she/her) is a member of the Manitoba Métis Nation and lives in Treaty 1 territory. She is an Assistant Professor in the department of English at the University of Winnipeg, teaching women’s writing and Indigenous literatures. She received her Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Calgary in global modernisms, with a focus on women’s writing and affect theory, and held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship on Métis literature at the University of Manitoba. Her research explores storytelling and resurgence in Métis literature, as well as the anxious structures associated with gender and race in twentieth- and twenty-first-century women’s writing. She currently serves as a council member for ILSA (the Indigenous Literary Studies Association).

Teaching Areas:
女人的房间g; Indigenous literature; feminist theory; affect theory

Courses:

(FW) ENGL-1001-005 English 1

(W) ENGL-2922-002 Topics in Women Writers

Publications:
Edited book

With Jeanne Dubino, Paulina Pająk, Catherine Hollis, and Vara Neverow.The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature. Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Refereed articles

“‘I look Straight into His Eyes . . . For the Last Time’: Rereading Intimacy and Indifference in Jean Rhys’sGood Morning, Midnight.” Journal of Modern Literature.Forthcoming.

“梅蒂斯人幸存: Land, Love, and Futures in Cherie Dimaline’s Dystopian Novels.”Special issue of American Studiesvol. 60, no. 3, 2021, pp. 28–47.

With David Sigler. “Time/frame: Rewriting the Mirror Stage in Lacan’s Anxiety Seminar.”English Studies in Canadavol. 45, no. 4, 2021, pp. 1–21.

“Making a World of Her Own: Affect and Womanhood in Virginia Woolf’sMrs Dalloway.” The CEA Criticvol. 83, no. 1, 2021, pp. 51–68.

With David Sigler. “Sense and Incompossibility: The Baroque Jane Austen and Deleuze’sThe Fold.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in EmergingKnowledge vol. 33, 2017, 33 para.

“Modern Machines: Intersecting Public and Private Spheres inMrs Dalloway.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany vol. 88, 2016, pp. 16–18.

Refereed book chapters

“A Schizoanalytic Walk with Desire: Reading the Body without Organs in Mary Shelley’sThe Last Man.” InHandbook to Literature and Psychoanalysis. Edited by Jeremy Tambling, Bloomsbury, Forthcoming.

“Affective Alliances: A Feminist Schizoanalysis of Feminine Anxiety, Dis/Orientation, and Affect Aliens.” InDeleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism. Edited by Cheri Carr and Janae Sholtz, Bloomsbury, 2019, pp. 213–25.

Edited special issue

Editor, with written introduction. “Virginia Woolf: Mobilizing Emotion, Feeling, and Affect.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany vol. 97, 2021.

Podcast

Storykeepers, Guest Host, Season 2, Episode 3, 2022, Cherie Dimaline’sEmpire of Wild.https://storykeeperspodcast.ca/index.php/episodes/