MLA Commons | Kirsten Ashley Bussière | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/kirstenbussiere/activity/ Activity feed for Kirsten Ashley Bussière. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:34:36 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 571ab66d45aeb4ab7eb67a39188be630 Kirsten Ashley Bussière wrote a new post, Major Comprehensive Exams - Imagining the Future: Time and Space at the End of the World, on the site Kirsten Bussière, MA https://kirstenbussiere.hcommons.org/?p=58 Mon, 21 Sep 2020 19:56:25 -0400 Theory

David Harvey, Spaces of Hope
Eric D. Smith, Globalization, Utopia and Postcolonial Science Fiction: New Maps of Hope
Lyman Tower Sargent and Gregory Claeys, The Utopia Reader
Tom Moylan and […]

]]> d578c78ca4c8fca258daed2fe484f1f8 Kirsten Ashley Bussière's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1709270/ Mon, 21 Sep 2020 19:46:16 -0400 0 b3684bd1e9eb4f8ca24f8161e8a5693e Kirsten Ashley Bussière wrote a new post, Biography, on the site Kirsten Bussière, MA https://kirstenbussiere.hcommons.org/?p=28 Thu, 20 Jun 2019 18:54:52 -0400 Current Research
Kirsten Bussière is a doctoral candidate whose SSHRC-funded research analyses what Mikhail Bakhtin calls the chronotope, or the ways that literature represents time and space, in p […]

]]> f20e7893c04f62b8f3e1a64a054fe8fd Kirsten Ashley Bussière started the topic Utopia vs. Dystopia in the discussion Utopian Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/utopian-studies/forum/topic/utopia-vs-dystopia/ Sun, 20 Jan 2019 23:38:29 -0500 A forum to discuss the many ways of defining utopias and dystopias, their differences, as well as their similarities.

]]> 0 9d36c5b88f3293c430df91b94e29924e Kirsten Ashley Bussière created the site Kirsten Bussière, MA https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1614162/ Sun, 29 Jul 2018 23:38:39 -0400 0 936d82a3dea2768232e38f3ae96e1e41 Kirsten Ashley Bussière replied to the topic Challenge #2: Networking (6/11-24) in the discussion Humanities Commons Summer Camp https://hcommons.org/groups/humanities-commons-summer-camp/forum/topic/challenge-2-networking-6-11-24/page/2/#post-14613 Sun, 24 Jun 2018 03:00:04 -0400 I’ve been having a really good time discussing maps and speculative fiction with @djgavin in the Science and Speculative Fictions group. This challenge has allowed me to network with people working on some similar but different tasks that I think will allow for fruitful discussion of maps and literature and the act of creating maps more g…[Read more]

]]> 0 32fb1679f3ed381f356821d975a1b40f Kirsten Ashley Bussière created the group Utopian Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611611/ Sun, 24 Jun 2018 02:49:22 -0400 0 03273644b6007efed0f540ee8287765f Kirsten Ashley Bussière replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction - Research Recommendations in the discussion Speculative and Science Fiction https://hcommons.org/groups/speculative-and-science-fiction/forum/topic/maps-and-speculative-fiction-research-recommendations/#post-14611 Sun, 24 Jun 2018 02:20:15 -0400 Maps and fantasy definitely are more common! If you know any theoretical articles associated with that it would likely be helpful as well. I’m working on a project where I digitally map post-apocalyptic spaces and I am trying to situate my work in the context of literary maps, more specifically utopias and science fiction, but discussions of maps…[Read more]

]]> 0 f7bacf6da9cc8c76f050e7be125cec2b Kirsten Ashley Bussière replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction - Research Recommendations in the discussion Speculative and Science Fiction https://hcommons.org/groups/speculative-and-science-fiction/forum/topic/maps-and-speculative-fiction-research-recommendations/#post-14610 Sun, 24 Jun 2018 02:15:36 -0400 Tally and Harvey do have some good comments on mapmaking in relation to the geopolitical implications of maps in general. There is also  chapter 11: “Utopia of the Map” in Utopics: Spatial Play by Louis Marin that discusses the map as a model of its object but also a double of the Empire as a global institution.

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]]> 0 38860bad9ddb6bc18d85372ea6b8fcc3 Kirsten Ashley Bussière's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611239/ Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:34:52 -0400 0 63ff712af74a2cf5630d533f1e028fff Kirsten Ashley Bussière replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction - Research Recommendations in the discussion Speculative and Science Fiction https://hcommons.org/groups/speculative-and-science-fiction/forum/topic/maps-and-speculative-fiction-research-recommendations/#post-14484 Tue, 19 Jun 2018 13:57:00 -0400 Thank you for your helpful response! I actually have not looked at the article or book that you mentioned. My previous research took me to Robert J. Tally’s comments on Cognitive Mapping, in <i>Utopia in the Age of Globalization </i>David Harvey’s Spaces of Hope both of which are less about maps per-se but rather a discussion of the geop…[Read more]

]]> 0 2f9afc1138ac5fa0ed9b89d49a0f00a9 Kirsten Ashley Bussière's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1610878/ Fri, 15 Jun 2018 03:03:27 -0400 0 02e740139069249fad969c6e6a7aad43 Kirsten Ashley Bussière replied to the topic Challenge #2: Networking (6/11-24) in the discussion Humanities Commons Summer Camp https://hcommons.org/groups/humanities-commons-summer-camp/forum/topic/challenge-2-networking-6-11-24/#post-14410 Fri, 15 Jun 2018 00:03:31 -0400 I found a few people to follow so far and I will continue to look for more. In one of the groups I posted a new topic but nobody has answered just yet on Humanities Commons. On Twitter though I had a fellow scholar respond to my tweet which summarized what I did for this challenge and the topic of my discussion. It turns out that we both are…[Read more]

]]> 0 776568ea91498cbdf24822ee1b1a0486 Kirsten Ashley Bussière started the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction - Research Recommendations in the discussion Speculative and Science Fiction https://hcommons.org/groups/speculative-and-science-fiction/forum/topic/maps-and-speculative-fiction-research-recommendations/ Thu, 14 Jun 2018 15:31:51 -0400 I am currently working on a project that involves digitally mapping contemporary post-apocalyptic spaces from Speculative Fiction. I was wondering if anyone knows of any useful articles or books on the tradition of maps in Speculative and Science Fictions. Any recommendations welcome! Thank you!

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]]> 0 286a6782ce8318aeb02a4ce1f95f37a3 Kirsten Ashley Bussière replied to the topic Challenge #1: Profiles (5/29-6/9) in the discussion Humanities Commons Summer Camp https://hcommons.org/groups/humanities-commons-summer-camp/forum/topic/challenge-1-profiles-5-29-6-9/#post-14039 Tue, 29 May 2018 15:28:35 -0400 Here is what I’ve done to my profile so far! I might make some more changes depending on how I’m feeling as the deadline approaches.
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]]> 0 185ddc6f78ffe7fe2892a0f5f89f81d3 Kirsten Ashley Bussière's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1609416/ Tue, 29 May 2018 15:11:43 -0400 0 9919471459e1a035dd14530dab527e9c Kirsten Ashley Bussiere replied to the topic Welcome! in the discussion Humanities Commons Summer Camp https://hcommons.org/groups/humanities-commons-summer-camp/forum/topic/welcome-17/#post-13547 Thu, 03 May 2018 17:11:21 -0400 Hi there! I’m Kirsten Bussière. I am currently completing my MA in English and Digital Humanities  at Carleton University and I will be attending the University of Ottawa in the fall for my PhD in English. My current research pertains to utopian nostalgia and collective memory in contemporary post-apocalyptic fiction. Focusing on the geographies o…[Read more]

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