Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- Autofiction
- Experimental form
- Global Anglophone literature
Biography
Alexander Sarra-Davis is a 6th-year PhD candidate currently completing the third chapter of his dissertation. He holds a BA, Honours from the University of British Columbia, where he studied modern rhetoric under Professor Judy Segal, and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, where he studied experimental form for Dr Sarah Dillon.
His research interests lie in the adaptation of old ideas to new media, the circulation of experimental form among anglophone populations, and the ethics of literary representation. His current project sits at the intersection of autofiction, narratology, ethics, and politics, and his latest chapter examines the oppositional agency given to characters in Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper.
Recent Conference Presentations
“Self Writing Others: Contradictory Allyship in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe”, Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, London, 2021.
“Resistant Typography: Counter-Authorial Agency in Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper”, Modern Language Association, Toronto, 2021.
“Universal & Collective Narrations: Opposing Models of Development in How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia and Latitudes of Longing”, Canada Climate Law Initiative Research Roundtable, Vancouver, 2020.
“Narratives of Collaboration: J. M. Coetzee and the Diffused Agency of Literary Production”, Narrative, New Orleans, 2020.
“Opening Twitter: Potential Narrative in 140 Characters or Fewer”, In Forms: Graduate English Conference, University of Toronto, 2019