B.A. Columbia University (English Literature and Creative Writing); M.ISt. University of Toronto (Library Studies); M.A. York University (English Literature); Ph.D. York University (English Literature), nominated for the Mary McEwan Memorial Award for feminist research. Eshe's research explores Black diasporic literature, focusing on its presentations of gender and language. I specialize in American writing, particularly the […]
Geoffrey MacDonald teaches postcolonial literary studies and academic writing. His current research theorizes the use of intersectionality to analyze cross-identity representations in Caribbean literature. Geoffrey's doctoral dissertation, Liberation Textualities, compared spirituality, the body, and romance in Anglophone Caribbean and Indigenous North American fiction, poetry, and drama to reexamine the concept of resistance literature. His scholarly […]
M.A. York University (Interdisciplinary Studies); M.A. University of Toronto (English Literature); Ph.D. York University (English Literature) My research focuses on intersections of representation, ethics, affect, and politics. I specialize in the American and British nineteenth century but am also interested in contemporary gentrification and in the role of emotion in political experience and expression. I […]
Dion’s research interests lie in the socio-psychological study of the horror film: his PhD research is in the Classical Hollywood B horror film, and while this focus is primarily in the study of genre, it also intersects with an auteur study of the work of Alfred Hitchcock, exploring similar themes in and out of his […]
Anna F. Peppard earned her PhD from York University specializing in American literature. She’s published widely on representations of race, gender, and sexuality within a variety of popular media genres and forms, including action-adventure television, superhero comics, professional wrestling, and sports culture. She’s the editor of the anthology Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero (2020) and hosts two […]
Anindo Hazra (PhD, York [English]) teaches in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (DLLL; English; Humanities) and Glendon Campus (English). With Theodore W. Goossen, he is editor of Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia: An Anthology (Lexington Books). Anindo’s current monograph-in-progress analyzes the works of two contemporary queer Indian writers: […]
Nemanja Protic holds a Ph.D. in English from York University. He specializes in contemporary literature and literary and cultural theory, with a focus on aesthetics and visual texts and culture. His teaching interests are rooted in attempts to understand the politics of art and the way literature participates in broad cultural patterns represented by notions […]
Dana Patrascu-Kingsley was born and grew up in Bucharest, Romania. After graduating with a B.A. in Romanian and English from Facultatea de Litere, University of Bucharest, she moved to Canada, where she completed an M.A. in English at Carleton University, Ottawa, and a Ph.D. in English at York University, Toronto. Dana has taught courses in […]
James D. Papoutsis (Ph.D., English, York) specializes in contemporary literature, American literature, and popular culture including film, comics, and graphic novels. He is currently researching the influence of Bollywood on the development of the Greek film industry and has recently presented conference papers on fantasy and the contemporary gothic. He is also a creative practitioner who […]