About
Janice Feng is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science and a certificate student in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. She holds a MA in Political Science and Cultural, Social, and Political Thought from the University of Victoria, and a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Alberta. She is interested in the history of political thought and philosophy (early modern to the present), settler colonialism and Indigenous political thought, feminist and queer theory, and Subaltern and postcolonial thought,. Her research specifically examines early modern settler-colonialism in New France and Dutch Formosa and how key concepts in early modern political thought developed through and were informed by settler colonialism(s). She particularly seeks to examine the ways in which embodied lived experience, desire, and affectivity matter politically both in terms of the development of settler colonialism historically and Indigenous resistance to ongoing settler colonialism and assertion of Indigenous sovereignty at the present. Another line of her interest lies in 20th century French and Francophone political theory and philosophy, specifically the interplay among structuralism, poststructuralism, and phenomenology, in their articulations of the body and its relation to politics.
Fields of Study:
- Political Theory
- Feminist and Queer Theory
- Settler-Colonial Studies
