Kara Kilfoil

Instructor

Department

English

Campus Location

Nicholson Tower Rm 421

Biography

B.A. Honours St. Francis Xavier University 1998

M.A. Carleton University 1999

Ph.D. University of Calgary 2010

Research

20th and 21st Century Poetry; Modernism and the Novel; Feminism and Constructions of Gender; “Confessional” Writing; Popular Culture; Genre Studies; Film; Indigenization and Literature.

The L'nu symbol. L’nu is a word the Mi’kmaq use to describe themselves, meaning “human being” or “the people.”

StFX espi-kina’matno’kuom etek Mi’kma’ki, wejkwa’taqanik Mi’kmaq maqamikewmuew mna’q iknmuetu’tik. Nalikitquniejk na Mi’kmawey wisun wjit Antigonish teluek Aklasie’w-iktuk, ‘place where branches are torn off.’

StFX is located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded ancestral territory of the Mi'kmaw people. The Mi'kmaw name for Antigonish is Nalikitquniejk, meaning ‘place where branches are torn off.’

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