Mackenzie Ashcroft

I have recently begun my journey as a PhD student in English at the University of Toronto. I earned my BA in English (with an embedded certificate in creative writing) from the University of Calgary. I earned my MA in English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia, where I was also a resident member of Green College.

My current research troubles the intersection of disability studies and literature, paying particular attention to crip infrastructures of writing, and how both the textual body, and physical human body are co-constituted across lines of (dis)ability, race, and gender. I am interested in cultivating care-based methodologies for literary study that learn from contemporary crip theory (crip authorship), while reflecting on our nineteenth-century and twentieth-century social, cultural, economic and technological inheritances, as articulated in each period's (speculative) fiction.

List of Publications

• (forthcoming) "Carceral Care: complicating care work in nineteenth-century science fiction" in Resilience and Resistance: Embracing Disability Narratives in 19th-Century British Fiction (Vernon Press)