Marina Klimenko

PhD Candidate

Campus

Areas of Interest

  • Canadian Literature
  • Ecocriticism
  • American Literature
  • Theory

Biography

What does it mean to write with water? To write from the perspective that water is indissoluble from ourselves, from our bodies as well as from our social, political, and economic structures? My research tries to answer these questions by examining Canadian literature in the 21st Century.

List of Publications

Klimenko, Marina. "Beyond ‘The Last Doubler': Reproductive Futurism and the Politics of Care in Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu." Neoliberal Environments, special issue of Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 45, no. 2, 2020, pp. 161-180.

My short fiction has appeared in literary journals such as Acta Victoriana, Toronto Prose Mill, Patchwork Mosaic, Victoria College's Goose, Half a Grapefruit, and The Wild Word.