Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- Feminist Theory
- Queer Theory
- Disability Studies
- Critical Race Theory
- Contemporary Literature
Biography
I am a first year PhD student whose research investigates reproductive justice and the affective resonances of reproductive loss in contemporary North American feminist texts. My scholarship and methodologies are interdisciplinary, drawing on frameworks from feminist theory, affect theory, and phenomenology to psychoanalysis and disability studies. I hold a BA in English with a minor in Women and Gender Studies from Brock University and a MA in English with a collaborative specialization with the Women and Gender Studies Institute from the University of Toronto.
List of Publications
Lacelle, Abby. Book Review: “Home is… Figuring Home in Literature of the Anglophone Transnational,” The English Languages: History, Diaspora, Cultures, edited by Carol Percy and Ruth Maddeaux, vol. 8, December 2022.
Conference Papers
Lacelle, Abby. “My daughter could be anyone’: Pregnancy-Loss, Mourning, and Materiality in Daniel Raeburn’s ‘Vessels,’” IAMAS: Mothering and Motherhood on the Home/Front, March 2023.
Lacelle, Abby. “[All Wailing]: Safety and Collective Grieving in Ari Aster’s Midsommar,” FOOT31: We Live Together, February 2023.
Lacelle, Abby. “‘I have witnessed’: The Self, the Other, and a Praxis of Witnessing in Karen Connelly’s Travel Memoir, Burmese Lessons,” Destinations and Departures, Dalhousie, 2022.
Lacelle, Abby, “‘Waver when we feel sure’: Uncertainty as Feminist Praxis,” FOOT30: Hopeful Positions, or Playing in Precarity, Toronto, 2022.