Zahra Barzegar is a Ph.D. student and teaching assistant at York University. Her research interests include contemporary poetry, ecocriticism, environmental imagination, and creative writing. Her MA thesis focused on Lawrence Buell’s mimetic and referential strategies of Adéquation and Référance in the poetry of Charles Tomlinson. Her thesis showed in what ways Tomlinson's poems approach the […]
Kathleen Cherrington (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies program at York University. Her research focuses on sexual technologies, feminist sex-tech theories, critical trafficking and sex work studies, feminized labour, gendered poverty, urban sexualities, and sexual rights. She majored in Sexuality Studies at York University for her BA 2018, and […]
Having completed her BA and MA at the University of Toronto, Stacey Dowswell is now a PhD student in York University's English department. Her studies look to a wide range of narratives, genres, and theoretical disciplines to explore how people and societies use and understand stories. Email Address: dowswell@yorku.ca
Ayse Irem Karabag is a doctoral student specializing in critical refugee studies, queer/gender studies, world literature and narratives of resistance. In her research, she positions refugee worldmaking as a storytelling device that can be effectively leveraged as social capital and analyzes how queer refugees become more “integratable” by strategic storytelling of the memories of home […]
Tamara Frooman (she/her) is a first year PhD student. She holds a BA from UofT with a double major in English and Gender Studies and completed her SSHRC-funded MA in English in the field of Creative Writing at UofT. Her research interests include psychoanalytic, queer, and deconstructionist frameworks at the intersection of auto-theory, auto-fiction, and auto-biography. Her […]
Monique Attrux is a doctoral student in the English program at York University. Her research centers on the intricate interplay between language, ethnic identity, and literary production in Chinese Canadian literature. She is deeply passionate about exploring how language shapes and reflects ethnic identities in the realm of literature. Her academic journey has been enriched […]
Salman Akhtar entered academia through convergence. Currently a third-year doctoral student in the English department at York University, he trained and worked as, first, a teacher of English to ‘Other Language’ adult speakers, then as an upper secondary English Language and Literature instructor at an international school. In a parallel pursuit, he practised theatre with […]
Anjalee Nadarajan is a PhD student in York University's English department who is studying the evolution of the novel. Her teaching interests include prose narrative and poetry, British and American literature, and the practice of writing. Prior to her studies in English literature, Anjalee completed her BA in economics and math from the University of […]
Theo Fox (he/him) is a PhD student in English at York University, where he also completed both his MA (‘19) and his Spec. Hon. BA (‘18). He specializes in drama, Renaissance literature, and representations of the disabled bodymind on early modern and modern stages. His doctoral research uses the lens of critical disability studies to […]
Tita Kyrtsakas received her BA(H) in English and Drama (2015) and B.Ed. from the University of Windsor (2019) and her MA with a SSHRC grant from the University of Toronto in Theatre, Drama, and Performance Studies (2016). She finds great joy in teaching and she is excited to be a PhD student at York, researching […]