PhD Candidate
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)
- Asian American Literature
- Critical Race Theory
- Queer Theory
- Psychoanalytic Theory
Biography
Cassandra Y. Olsen is a PhD candidate in English and holds an HBSc and MA from the University of Toronto. Cassandra works with twentieth- and twenty-first century multi-ethnic literatures of the United States and has research interests in queer, psychoanalytic, and critical race theories.
List of Publications
"Descent of the Human: Racialized Animality, Queer Intimacy, and Evolutionary Theory in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl." Studies in Canadian Literature, 46.1, January 31, 2022. pp. 145-165.