Naomi Morgenstern
Professor, Department of English
Biography
Main Bio
Naomi Morgenstern is Professor of English and American Literature and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Toronto, St. George. She specializes in psychoanalytic, post-structuralist and feminist critical theory and and teaches courses in nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century American literature. She is the author, most recently, of Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) as well as essays on Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones and Denis Villeneuve's Arrival. She is currently working on reproductive ethics and maternal sovereignty in contemporary literary and cinematic narratives.