Jon NASH

Jon NASH

I am a doctoral candidate of English and a teacher at the University of Victoria. My work locates an undertheorized space of transitions and intervals in refugee narratives between displacement and resettlement such as airports, refugee camps, migrant boats, and detention centres. I argue that these spaces engender radical narratives of belonging, which contest and re-imagine attachments to nation, citizenship, and homeland in the cultural-political discourses surrounding refugees. (You can read more about my research by clicking here.)

As a teacher, accessibility and inquiry-based learning are at the centre of my teaching philosophy. I want my students to take the skills and knowledges attained through classroom activities and bring them into their other courses and projects throughout their learning and professional careers. In all my classrooms, I strive to foster and care for a learning community where students not only deepen their knowledges and experiences but their relations with local and global communities. (You can read more about my teaching philosophy here.)

I am humbled and grateful to learn and teach in this place of the Lək̓ʷəŋən and WS’ANEC’ speaking peoples. As a settler of European background who is not invited to this beautiful and vital place, I believe it is necessary in both my research and teaching practice to create opportunities for truth telling and affirming Indigenous resurgence here in this place and globally.