Karen Roy

(Ph.D. Student)
CENES, UBC

University of British Columbia Ph.D. student Karen Roy investigates the cognitive construction of memory based on the body's tactile and spatial tactics, specifically looking at how Stasi files as examples of an institutionalized body of memories influenced the construction of certain GDR authors' autobiographies.

http://www.cenes.ubc.ca/index.php?id=students

Recent Publications, Performances or Presentations

1) "Timothy Garton Ash's File of Life" Memory and Crises. Conference Presentation. Melbourne: University of Melbourne, Sept. 2007.
2) "Wolf's Identity Constructed by her Stasi File." The Struggle for Identity. CNERS 8th annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference. University of British Columbia, May 2007.
3) "The File as the Script of a Life." Colloquium series in the Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies Department at the University of British Columbia, February 2007.