Charissa Chan

PhD Candidate

Campus

Areas of Interest

  • Medieval Literature
  • Affect Theory

Biography

Charissa Chan received her BA Honours and a Masters in English at the University of Toronto, where she is currently pursuing her PhD studies. Her work explores the operations of affect within courtly discourses of love in Chaucer’s poetry.

Selected Awards and Accolades

2019/2020 Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2018/2019 University of Toronto Fellowship (renewed 2019/2020)

2018/2019 Ontario Graduate Scholarship 

2016/2017 Ontario Graduate Scholarship 

2016 V. A. De Luca Memorial Fellowship

2015 The William McCauley Scholarship

2014 The Class of 1945 Scholarship

2013 The Alastair McKinnon Scholarship