Joshua Schuster, Western University

Research

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Latest funding

What is extinction: a cultural and natural history of last animals
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$66,800
Underground ecocriticism: new approaches to the environmental humanities
SSHRC · 2012 · Principal investigator
$12,511

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What is extinction: a cultural and natural history of last animals

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Schuster, Joshua

Keywords: extinction; environmental humanities; ecocriticism; animal studies; animals in literature; literary theory; science studies; cultural theory; trauma theory; psychoanalysis

$66,800

Underground ecocriticism: new approaches to the environmental humanities

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Schuster, Joshua

Keywords: environmental humanities; ecocriticism; literature; environmentalism; literary theory; cultural studies

$12,511

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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