Dawne McCance

Dawne C. McCance FRSC (born 1944) is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba. In 2019, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Dawne McCance
Born	(1944-06-02) June 2, 1944 (age 80)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Manitoba (BSc, MA, PhD)
Thesis	Limits of Burden: Toward an Ethical Framework for Prenatal Diagnosis (1986)
Academic advisors	Klaus Klostermaier
Academic work
Discipline	Derrida studies
Sub-discipline	Critical animal studies
Institutions	University of Manitoba

Career

McCance joined the faculty of Religious Studies at her alma mater, the University of Manitoba, in 1986.^[1] She soon edited Life Ethics in World Religions and Unions^[2] and published Medusa's Ear and Posts: Re-Addressing the Ethical.^[3] Her 1996 book Posts: Re-Addressing the Ethical addressed the "significance of postmodern discourses on the ethical and the ethical significance of postmodern discourses in general."^[4]

By 2007, McCance was promoted to Distinguished Professor of Arts and Religion.^[5] Later, as a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, McCance published Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction through the State University of New York Press.^[6] This book focused on issues concerning the fledgling discipline of "Animal Studies" which include questions regarding animal rights, animal experimentation and farming, posthumanist challenges to traditional ethical discourse, and the role fiction, visual art, and architecture have on humans compassion towards animals.^[7] She was Editor of Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal for eighteen years .^[8]

In 2019, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada^[9] and published The Reproduction of Life Death: Derrida’s La vie la mort.^[10]

References

1. Coward, Harold (November 7, 2014). Fifty Years of Religious Studies in Canada: A Personal Retrospective. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 98. ISBN 9781771121033. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
2. Bourgeois, Michael (June 1, 2000). "Reviews of books: Life Ethics in World Religions and Unions: Dawne C. McCance". Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses. 29 (2). doi:10.1177/000842980002900227.
3. "Faculty / Staff News" (PDF). umanitoba.ca. 2005. p. 7. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
4. Hall, W. David (1997). "Posts: Re Addressing the Ethical by Dawne McCance". The Journal of Religion. 77 (3): 647–648. doi:10.1086/490094. JSTOR 1206776.
5. "Distinguished Professors & Distinguished Professors Emeritus". umanitoba.ca. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
6. "First Introduction to Critical Animal Studies Published". oxfordanimalethics.com. February 4, 2013. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
7. Shakespeare, Steven (2014). "Reviewed Work(s): Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction by Dawne McCance". Journal of Animal Ethics. 4 (2). University of Illinois Press: 110–111. doi:10.5406/janimalethics.4.2.0110. JSTOR 10.5406/janimalethics.4.2.0110.
8. Klaus Martens (2004). The Canadian Alternative. Königshausen & Neumann. p. 105. ISBN 9783826026362. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
9. "One new RSC Fellow, one new RSC College member". news.umanitoba.ca. September 10, 2019. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
10. Yang, Dong (February 1, 2020). "Dawne McCance: The Reproduction of Life Death: Derrida's La vie la mort". reviews.ophen.org. Retrieved February 25, 2020.