Dawne C. McCance (born 1944) is a Distinguished Professor at the

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. In 2019, she was elected a Fellow of the

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Career

McCance joined the faculty of Religious Studies at her alma mater, the University of Manitoba, in 1986. She soon edited ''Life Ethics in World Religions and Unions'' and published ''Medusa's Ear'' and ''Posts: Re-Addressing the Ethical.'' 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." By 2007, McCance was promoted to Distinguished Professor of Arts and Religion. Later, as a fellow at the

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, McCance published ''Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction'' through the

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. 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. She was Editor of ''Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal'' for eighteen years . In 2019, she was elected a

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and published ''The Reproduction of Life Death: Derrida’s La vie la mort.''

References

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