Aesha Nananso

Aesha holds a B.A. (Hons) in English Language and Literature from The University of Western Ontario and an M.A. in Literatures of Modernity from Toronto Metropolitan University. Situated between the fields of African American Literature and Black Feminist & Queer Theory, her dissertation project considers how Black women writers of the American neo-slave narrative who return to and recuperate history also recast motherhood in non-normative ways. She argues that Black mothering, which is an immediately queer positioning, is a liberatory social practice that dispels inherited myths about Black women specifically and categories of gender and sexuality more broadly. Her research is supported by the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS D) and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS). 

List of Publications

Book Review: Dionne Brand, An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading. University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 91, no. 3, 2022, pp 284-286.