PhD Candidate
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- American Literature
- Critical Race Studies
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Literary and Critical Theory
- Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature
Areas of Interest
- Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)
- Asian American Literature
- Critical Race Theory
- Queer Theory
- Psychoanalytic Theory
Biography
Cassandra researches twentieth- and twenty-first century multi-ethnic literatures of the United States and has interests in queer, psychoanalytic, and critical race theories. Cassandra’s dissertation explores theories of racial melancholia and racial abjection through representations of mixed-race relationality in Asian American literature.
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.
Cohort
- 2019-2020