Alex is interested in Romantic era woman-authored poetry which centers female characters, particularly in Gothic natural landscapes and environments. They are examining these interests through the work of Mary Robinson.

I specialize in creative writing, prosody, and American Literature. I am also interested in poetry and performance, the intersection between poetry and cinema, film history, and theories of the domestic. My dissertation, House Music: Anxiety, Order, Form, and the Domestic in the Works of Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Anne Sexton deals with how these three mid-20th Century American poets use poetic form to express the anxieties inherent in seeking, managing, and transcending the limits of home.

Angela is interested in questions of trauma and memory, particularly as they relate to the politics of loss in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood.

Anthony DiGesare’s research and interests include Postcolonial literature, Sam Selvon, Black British literature, Black British film, American film, writing and rhetoric, and Cultural Studies. He is currently working on a dissertation “No Recourse”: Menelik Shabazz, Horace Ové, and Black British Cinema (1968-1981).

My research interests would broadly fall under South Asian Studies. However, specifically, I’m interested in the Partition of India, nationalism in India, caste and urban studies. I had previously worked on early rock music in India.

My research involves the greening of early modern selfhood. Unravelling the intricate web of identity that intertwines the fates of the human and more-than-human is the root of my research.