Abby Lacelle

Abby Lacelle is a feminist writer and researcher in her third year of the PhD program in the Department of English. She holds 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. Her CGS-D-funded dissertation, “Unexpecting: Reproductive Loss, Maternal Subjectivity, and Feminist Forms in Contemporary American Novels,” investigates the formal, personal, and political resonances of reproductive loss (broadly conceived). Her criticism centers works by William Faulkner, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nella Larsen, Toni Morrison and Torrey Peters and is informed by the approaches of thinkers like Barbara Johnson, Sophie Lewis, Victoria Browne, and Lauren Berlant.

She is a CUPE 3902 Union Steward and she served as the co-chair of the Sexual Diversities Studies’ Sex Salon and the Graduate English Association’s Vice-President in 2024-25. She is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Paloma Magazine, an outlet for criticism, literary reviews, and creative writing.

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.
• Forthcoming: ---. "I Libel Dick: Privacy and Libel, the Self, and Feminist Genres," De Gruyter: Law and Literature.