Tiffany Potter, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest funding

Popular culture and eighteenth-century women
SSHRC · 2011 · Principal investigator
$33,387
The-other-Indian: 18th-century constructions of indigenous femininity in fiction, fictionalization, and historical documentation
SSHRC · 2000 · Principal investigator
$38,480

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Popular culture and eighteenth-century women

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011

Principal investigators: Potter, Tiffany F.

Keywords: popular culture studies; eighteenth-century women; representations of 18C women in modern popular culture; 18C in modern film and television; gender studies; 18C fiction; poetry and theatre

$33,387

The-other-Indian: 18th-century constructions of indigenous femininity in fiction, fictionalization, and historical documentation

Principal investigatorSSHRC2000Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Potter, Tiffany

Keywords: indigenous women; identity and construction in literature; power relationships of race and gender; appropriation of voice in literature; marketing the other; culture and gender as commodity; attributed conduct and disruption of prescriptive codes

$38,480

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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