Jason Potts

Associate Professor

Department

English

Campus Location

Nicholson Tower Rm 419

Phone

(902) 867-2643

Biography

Ph.D. English (Johns Hopkins University)

Research

19th- and 20th-Century American Literature, Literary Theory, Modernism and the Novel

Publications

Jason Potts and Daniel Stout. Theory Aside. Duke UP, 2014.

The L'nu symbol. L’nu is a word the Mi’kmaq use to describe themselves, meaning “human being” or “the people.”

StFX espi-kina’matno’kuom etek Mi’kma’ki, wejkwa’taqanik Mi’kmaq maqamikewmuew mna’q iknmuetu’tik. Nalikitquniejk na Mi’kmawey wisun wjit Antigonish teluek Aklasie’w-iktuk, ‘place where branches are torn off.’

StFX is located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded ancestral territory of the Mi'kmaw people. The Mi'kmaw name for Antigonish is Nalikitquniejk, meaning ‘place where branches are torn off.’

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