Bruno Cornellier

Title: Associate Professor
Email: b.cornellier@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Bruno Cornellier is an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of English. He is currently completing a book on class, race, whiteness, and colonialism in contemporary Québec cinema and society.

Teaching Areas:

Cultural studies; film studies; popular culture

Courses:

F ENGL-4742-001 CULTURAL STUDIES

F GCST-7112-001 TOPICS IN CULT. THEORY

FW ENGL-2145-001 FIELD OF CULT. STUDIES

W ENGL-1004-761 READING CULTURE

Publications:

Recent Publications (Selection):

“La blanchité, la race et l’impensé colonial dans l’étude du cinéma québécois.” Nouvelles Vues 24 (forthcoming, Fall 2025).

“Understanding Vallières’s Stubborn Endurance: on Anti-Anti-Racism in Québec”. Studies in Canadian Literature (forthcoming, Fall 2025).

(with Jenny Heijun Wills). “(Don’t) Hold My Hand: Narratives of Adoption and Refusal in Lamb.” Screen, vol. 65, no. 4, 2024, 581-588.

(with Jenny Heijun Wills). “How to Kin the Transnational Adoptee in the Québécois Nationalist Family Romance?” Adoption & Discourses of Multiculturalism: Europe, the Americas and the Pacific, edited by Jenny Heijun Wills, Tobias Hübinette, and Indigo Willing, University of Michigan Press, 2020, pp. 239-58.

“COVID-19 and the Deadly Seriousness of Cultural Studies.” COVID-19 and Cultural Studies: Articulating the Pandemic, edited by Jane Barter and Angela Failler, Centre for Research in Cultural Studies (CRiCS), June 2020, https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/crics/covid-19-and-cultural-studies/covid-19-and-the-deadly-seriousness-of-cultural-studies.html.

“Of the North. L’appropriation culturelle et la romance du ‘copyleft’.” Liberté: Art & Politique no. 321, 2018.

“The Struggle of Others: Pierre Vallières, Québécois Settler Nationalism, and the N-Word Today.” Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture 39, no.1, 2017.

“Extracting Inuit: The of the North Controversy and the White Possessive.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 40, no.4, 2016.

“Interculturalism, Settler Colonialism, and the Contest over ‘Nativeness’.” Biopolitics and Memory in Postcolonial Literature and Culture. Ed. Michael R. Griffiths. London: Ashgate, 2016.

“Jackie Chan’s Indian Play: Immigration, Asianness, and the Contracting Self in the American Settler Colony.” Settler Colonial Studies, 6, no.4, 2016.

(co-edited with Michael R. Griffiths). “Globalizing Unsettlement.” Special issue of Settler Colonial Studies 6, no. 4, 2016.

(co-edited with Cécile Alduy and Dominic Thomas, eds.). “The Charlie Hebdo Attacks and Their Aftermath.” Special issue of Occasion 9, 2015.

“Representation, White Resentment, and the Freedom-of-Expression Defense.” Occasion 9, 2015.