Publications

Books: Edited Collections

After Oil Collective. Ayesha Vemuri and Darin Barney, editors. Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice. University of Minnesota Press. 2022. Print.

Wilson, Sheena, Adam Carlson and Imre Szeman, editors. Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 2017. Print.

After Oil. West Virginia University Press. 2016. [Collaborative Monograph.]

Wilson, Sheena and Diana Davidson, editors. Telling Truths: Storying Motherhood. Demeter Press. 2014. Print.

Wilson, Sheena, editor. Joy Kogawa: Essays on Her Works. Guernica. 2011. Print.

Chilewska, Anna and Sheena Wilson, editors. Writing After the Gaze: The Rupture of the Historical. Milan V. Dimič Institute for Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies. 2007. Print.

Publications: Imaginations

Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies/ Revue d’Études Interculturelles de l’Image. http://imaginations.glendon.yorku.ca (Editor-in-Chief 2011–2018)

Select Journal Articles, Book Chapters:

Wilson, Sheena. “Hacking the Techno-Transition: The Possibilities of Deep Energy Literacy.” Sociálni Studia/Social Studies, 2022, pp. 29-53.

Wilson, Sheena. “Solarities or Solarculture: Bright or Bleak Energy Futures and the E. L. Smith Solar Farm.” South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 120, no. 2, 2021, pp. 137-150.

Loveless, Natalie and Sheena Wilson. “Reflections on collaboration as performance and the performance of collaboration in an age of COVID and climate crisis.” Canadian Theatre Review. Ed. Jimena Ortuzar. Summer 2021, Vol. 187: 86-90.

Wilson, Sheena. “Trafficking in Petronormativities: At the Intersections of Petrofeminism, Petroclonialism, and Petrocapitalism.” Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change. Edited by Tatiana Porokova-Konrad. West Virginia University Press. 2020

Wilson, Sheena. “Energy Imaginaries: Feminist and Decolonial Futures.” Materialism and the Critique of  Energy. Edited by Brent Ryan Bellamy and Jeff Diamanti. Chicago and Edmonton: MCMPrime Press. 2018.

Wilson, Sheena et Eva Lemaire.  « Le Centre d’écriture bilingue : un espace alternatif de formation pour l’enseignement postsecondaire en milieu minoritaire. » L’éducation supérieure et dualité linguistique dans l’Ouest canadien: Gains, réalités et défis dans les 40 dernières années, dirigé par Samira ElAtia, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2018, Québec, 180-210.

Pendakis, Andrew and Sheena Wilson. “The Nation Dreamt Whole: the NFB’s ‘—of Japanese Descent’” (1945) and Canadian Mid-Century Political Fantasy.” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 37, Spring 2017, pp. 15-39.

Wilson, Sheena. “Action-A-Day.” WordPress, http://deepenergyliteracy.csj.ualberta.ca/

Wilson, Sheena. “New Stories, New Knowledge: Research Creation.” Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture, edited by Sheena Wilson, Adam Carlson and Imre Szeman, McGill-Queen’s UP, 2017, Montreal, Quebec, pp. 477-479.

Wilson, Sheena, Imre Szeman and Adam Carlson. “On Petrocultures, Or Why We Need to Understand Oil to Understand Everything.” Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture, edited by Sheena Wilson, Adam Carlson and Imre Szeman, McGill-Queen’s UP, 2017, Montreal, Quebec, pp. 3-20.

Wilson, Sheena. “Gendering Oil: Tracing Western Petrosexual Relations.” Energy Humanities Reader. Edited by Dominic Boyer and Imre Szeman. John Hopkins University Press. 2017.

Wilson, Sheena. “Gender.” Fueling Culture:  Energy, History, Politics. Edited by Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel, and Patricia Yaeger.  New York: Fordham UP. 2017.

Wilson, Sheena. “PetroMama.” New Maternalisms. Premiered: May 13, 2016. (5 mins).

Wilson, Sheena. “Petro-Mama: Mothering in a Crude World.” Telling Truths: Storying Motherhood, edited by Sheena Wilson and Diana Davidson, Demeter Press, 2014, Bradford, Ontario, pp. 307-314.

Szeman, Imre, Sheena Wilson et al. “On the Energy Humanities: Contributions from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts to Understanding Energy Transition and Energy Impasse.” SSHRC Imagining Canada’s Future initiative, Knowledge Synthesis Grants: Energy and Natural Resources, 13 May 2016.

Wilson, Sheena. “Obāchan’s Garden: Maternal Genealogies as Resistance in Canadian Experimental Documentary.” Screening Motherhood in Contemporary World Cinema, edited by Asma Sayed, Demeter Press, 2015, Bradford, Ontario, pp. 25-54.

Anselmi, William and Sheena Wilson. “Technologies of Memory, Identity and Oblivion in Persepolis (2007) and Waltz with Bashir (2008).” Familiar and Foreign: Identity in Iranian Film and Literature, edited by Manijeh Manani and Veronica Thompson, Athabasca UP, 2015, Edmonton, Alberta, pp. 233-259.

Wilson, Sheena. “Shake Up, Not Shake-Down: Comparative Literature as a Twenty-First Century Discipline.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, vol. 41, no. 2, 2014, pp. 226-229.

Wilson, Sheena. “Recuperating Oblivion in The Displaced View (1988): Midi Onodera’s Intercultural Feminist Cinematic Experiment.” Regenerations/Régénérations: Canadian Women’s Writing/Écriture des femmes au Canada, edited by Marie Carrière and Patricia Demers, University of Alberta Press, 2014, Edmonton, Alberta, pp. 199-227.

Wilson, Sheena. “Gendering Oil: Tracing Western Petro-Sexual Relations.” Oil Culture, edited by Daniel Worden and Ross Barrett, University of Minnesota Press, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota, pp. 244-266.

Wilson, Sheena. “Networks of Relations: Introduction to Writing Motherhood.” Telling Truths: Storying Motherhood, edited by Sheena Wilson and Diana Davidson, Demeter Press, 2014, Bradford, Ontario, pp. 1-15.

Lemaire, Eva & Sheena Wilson. « Former à l’écriture dans le contexte de la francophonie minoritaire ouest-canadienne : impacts du centre universitaire de monitorat entre pairs. » Le Français aujourd’hui, édite par Lucile Cadet et Fanny Rinck, vol.184, 2014, pp. 1-8.

Wilson, Sheena. « Multiculturalisme et transculturalisme : ce que peut nous apprendre la revue ViceVersa (1983-1996). » Revue internationale d’études canadiennes, vol. 45-46, 2012, pp. 261-276.

Pendakis, Andrew and Sheena Wilson. “Sight, Site, Cite: Oil in the Field of Vision.” Sighting Oil: Imaginations, vol. 4, no. 1, Fall 2012, pp. 4-5,

Anselmi, William and Sheena Wilson. “When We Dream, Do We Accumulate Capital? On Christopher Nolan’s Inception (2010).” Bright Lights Film Journal, 74, November 2011.

Anselmi, William and Sheena Wilson. “Alberta’s Tar Sands and Aboriginal Communities, A Mediated Production.” Emigrazione, 9 April 2011, http://www.emigrazione-notizie.org/articles.asp?id=412

Anselmi, William and Sheena Wilson. “For Your Glaze Only: Imperfect Divinity.” The International Journal of the Image, 1, no. 3, 2011, pp. 73-86.

Wilson, Sheena. “The Multiple Voices of Poesis and Praxis: The Work of Joy Kogawa.” Joy Kogawa: Essays on Her Works, edited by Sheena Wilson, Guernica, 2011, Montreal Quebec, pp. 9-42.

Anselmi, William and Sheena Wilson. “For Whom the post Tolls beyond Technologies of Feminism: Postmortem of Transnational Communicative Environments.” Critical Perspectives on Gender, special issue of the Journal of Critical Studies in Business and Society, special, vol. 1, no. 1-2, 2010, pp. 138-172.

Anselmi, William and Sheena Wilson. “Terrorism Then and Now, Here and There: Canada, the Final Frontier.” Transplanting Canada: Seedlings / Transplanter le Canada, edited by Marie Carrière and Jerry White. Centre de littérature canadienne, 2010, Edmonton, Alberta, pp. 70-88.

Sheena Wilson et al. “After Imagining: Imaginations/ Après l’imaginer: Imaginations.” Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, Fall 2010, pp. 1-7.

Wilson, Sheena. “The Bilingual Writing Centre/Centre d’écriture bilingue at U of A’s Campus Saint-Jean.” Writing Matters, edited by Betsy Sargent, vol. I, no. 2, Winter 2010, p. 2.

Anselmi, William and Sheena Wilson. “Slumdogging It: Rebranding the American Dream, New World Orders, and Neo-Colonialism.” Bristol, UK: Film International, May 2009.

Wilson, Sheena. “Campus Saint-Jean’s Bilingual Writing Centre: A Portal to Multiple Cultures and Cosmopolitanism Citizenship.” Canadian Writing Centres Association Newsletter, vol. 3, March 2009, pp. 9-12.

Wilson, Sheena. “From Inch’Allah Dimanche to Sharia in Canada: Empire Management, Gender Representations, and Communication Strategies in the Twenty-First Century.” From Solidarity to Schisms: 9/11 and After in Fiction and Film from Outside the US, edited by Cara N. Cilano, Brill, 2009, New York City, New York, pp. 237-272.

Anselmi, William and Sheena Wilson. “Performative Radicalism in Contemporary Canadian Documentary Film.” Bristol, UK: Film International, vol. 7, no. 1, February 2009, pp. 44-53.

Wilson, Sheena and Anna Chilewska. “Introduction.” Writing After the Gaze: the Rupture of the Historical, edited by Sheena Wilson and Anna Chilewska. Milan V. Dimič Institute for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, 2007, Edmonton, Alberta, pp. x-xv.

Wilson, Sheena and William Anselmi. “Where is the Frame in this Picture? Lest we Forget and the Conjurical Problem of History.” Canadian Review of East Asian Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2006, pp. 34-39.

Wilson, Sheena. “Remembering: 1970s Narrativization of Japanese Canadian Internment in The Pierre Berton Show (CBC) and Enemy Alien (NFB).” Language Politics Culture, edited by Waclaw M. Osadnik and Piotr Fast. Wydawnictwo Wyzszej Szkoly Lingwistiycznej, 2004, Czestochowa, Poland, pp. 35-51.

Wilson, Sheena. “It’s Telling: What Barbed Wire and Mandolins Does Not Say About Italian Canadian Internment.” Borderlines: Studies in Literature and Film, edited by Waclaw M. Osadnik and Andrezej Pitrus, Rabid Press, 2003, Krakow, Poland, pp. 177-200.

Encyclopedia Articles:

Bellamy, Brent Ryan and Sheena Wilson. “Shikata ga nai.” An Ecotopian Lexicon, edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy, 2019, http://ecotopianlexicon.com

Wilson, Sheena. “Kogawa, Joy.” Twentieth-Century World Fiction. The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, volume edited by John Clement Ball, general editor Brian W. Shaffer, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, pp. 1174-76.

Wilson, Sheena. “Biography: A Narrative of Life through Words and Actions.” Joy Kogawa, edited by Sheena Wilson, Guernica, 340-351.

Wilson, Sheena. “Awards and Honours Garnered for Obasan and for a Lifetime of Literary Work and Community Activism.” Joy Kogawa, edited by Sheena Wilson, Guernica, 352-354.

Wilson, Sheena. “Bibliography: Works By and About Joy Kogawa.” Joy Kogawa, edited by Sheena Wilson, Guernica, pp. 359-362.

Wilson, Sheena. “Bent Box.” The Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature, edited by Jennifer McClinton-Temple and Alan R. Velie, Fact On File, 2007, pp. 52-3.

Wilson, Sheena. “Lee Maracle.” The Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature, edited by Jennifer McClinton-Temple and Alan R. Velie, Fact On File, 2007, pp. 220-222.

Wilson, Sheena. “Sojourner’s Truth.” The Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature, edited by Jennifer McClinton-Temple and Alan R. Velie, Fact On File, 2007, pp. 330-331.

Wilson, Sheena. “Sundogs.” The Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature, edited by Jennifer McClinton-Temple and Alan R. Velie, Fact On File, 2007, pp. 348-49.

Wilson, Sheena. “Holly Uyemoto.” The Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature, edited by Seiwoong Oh, Fact On File, 2007, pp. 302-303.

Wilson, Sheena. “Kerri Sakamoto.” The Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature, edited by Seiwoong Oh, Fact On File, 2007, pp. 259-260.

Wilson, Sheena. “One Hundred Million Hearts.” The Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature, edited by Seiwoong Oh, Fact On File, 2007, pp. 229-230.

Wilson, Sheena. “Antony Thomas.”  Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film, edited by Ian Aitken, United States: Routledge, 2005, pp. 1316-1317.

Book Reviews:

Wilson, Sheena. “Oil Ethics.” American Book Review, vol. 33, no. 2, 2012, pp. 8-9.