Graduate Lunch & Learn (Formerly Brown Bag Lunch)

Join fellow faculty and graduate students for a lunch and casual research-sharing session.

 

At this event, we will be joined by Professor Karina Vernon and PhD Candidate CJ MacDonald, who will share their recent research endeavors. 

 

Professor Vernon is an Associate Professor at the Department of English, and Chair of the Department of English at UTSC. She researches and teaches in the area of Canadian literature, with a special focus on black Canadian literature, archives, critical race theory, multiculturalism and decolonization. In her NFC lecture last year, Professor Vernon described how she has been following the muscle memory of Black cowboy songs on the Canadian prairies to retrieve knowledge of the prairies' ongoing entanglements with slavery and its aftermaths. 

 

CJ MacDonald is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation engages American literature from 1890-1955 as a means to reimagine the historical conjunction between the technological and scientific deployments of sound and sexuality near the turn of the 20th century, attuning to how other forms of sonic and queer expression come into fruition with and against the technologies, discourses, and logics prescribed by medicine, capital, and legislation when deployed through the literary and poetic. She argues that attuning to sonic events, tactics, and modalities in modern American literature, such as echoes, noise, silences, music, and other acoustic phenomena, intimates a vital shift in navigating queer selfhood and affect.

 

Please RSVP and list dietary restrictions as lunch will be provided.