Primary areas of expertise include Shakespeare and the English Renaissance, electronic texts (XML markup and editing), the history and scholarship of editing Shakespeare, the history and development of English prose through style and stylistics, horror fiction and film (vampires, witchcraft, ghost stories, and lycanthropy), Bram Stoker's Dracula, Victorian poetry literature (prose and fiction), technology and […]
My research focuses on early modern literature, especially Renaissance drama. My dissertation, "Properties of Desire: Performing Women on the Early Modern Transvestite Stage," explored how stage properties contribute to the enterprise of depicting the desires of women on the early modern English public stage. I am currently working on a book about stage props that […]
Regi Khokher’s current research examines the interplay between contemporary Science Fiction from the United States and American electoral politics, in particular the connections between SF and the conservative movement post-1980, spearheaded by Ronald Reagan. Other areas of interest include American popular culture with a focus on comic books, film, and television since the 1960s. In […]
Natalia Khomenko (PhD, York University; MA, University of Toronto) wrote her doctoral dissertation on virgin martyr vitae as a popular genre in late medieval and early modern England. She specializes in Middle English hagiographical narratives, post-Reformation English drama, and Global Shakespeare. Natalia’s ongoing research project, funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, focuses on the […]
Aida Jordão, PhD, is a theatre scholar and practitioner whose research, teaching, and theatre-making build on her dissertation, “Inês de Castro in Theatre and Film: A Feminist Exhumation of the Dead Queen” (Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto). She is committed to feminist analysis and community-engaged artistic practice; in 2019 she received […]
Jordana Greenblatt (PhD, English, York) is the editor of Querying Consent: Beyond Permission and Refusal (Rutgers UP) and has published articles in a variety of literature and interdisciplinary journals and scholarly collections. Currently the Vice President of the Comparative Gender Studies Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association, they research sexuality in a range of creative media […]
Elena Basile is a teacher, translator and inter-media artist working along the fuzzy edges of multiple corporeal, linguistic and cultural trajectories of belonging. Her areas of scholarly and artistic research include psychoanalysis, queer theory and translation studies. She is particularly interested in the (self) translation practices and multilingual poetics of contemporary trans, queer and feminist […]
Jennifer Duncan is the author of Sanctuary & Other Stories and Frontier Spirit: Brave Women of the Klondike, and many short stories, poems, book reviews, etc. published in literary journals and newspapers. She holds degrees in Creative Writing & English Literature and Education from York University, Concordia University, and OISE/University of Toronto and she has […]