PhD U Candidate
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- American Literature
- Critical Race Studies
- Diasporic, Postcolonial, and Transnational Literature
- Literary and Critical Theory
- The Novel
- Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature
Areas of Interest
- Literature and belief
- Migration and globalization
- Historicization of the post-45 period
- Poststructuralist theory and continental philosophy
Biography
I'm a second year PhD-U student, studying late-20th century novels and theory. My BA Honours thesis, completed at the University of Calgary, focused on Clarice Lispector's ontological project of writing the body. My current area of study is Euro-American responses to globalization: I'm interested in how postmodern and poststructuralist authors challenge "traditional" power structures by gesturing toward postcolonialism, reimagining and restructuring imperial heartlands (like Nabokov's "Antiterra" and Morrison's rememory). I'm part of the Diaspora and Transnational Studies program, a Junior Fellow at Massey College, and supported by an OGS grant for the 2024/25 year. Also, I Irish dance. :-)