91

MA Students

Organized by year of entry.

2025

Name

Email

Research Interests

Ǵھᰭ

sofia.achkar [at] mail.mcgill.ca

sexual content in literature; censorship; BookTok; increase of books with smut

DzٷѴ-մ鱫

noah.adelman-ciubotaru [at] mail.mcgill.ca

contemporary literary fiction; history and theory of the novel; critical theory; sociology of literature; periodization; disruption and fragmentation; attention and distraction; labour and leisure

DZᷡ鱷

colin.ahern [at] mail.mcgill.ca

horror; American literature; folklore; 20th Century; Chaucer; moonlight

ѱɾѷ

mehwish.ahmed [at] mail.mcgill.ca

MinnaBACHMAN

minna.bachman [at] mail.mcgill.ca

ElloïseBASTIEN

elloise.bastien [at] mail.mcgill.ca

AvrylBENDER

avryl.bender [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Canadian literature; poetry; modernism; historicization; archival studies; feminism; intertextuality; biography

FrancesCAMERON

frances.a.cameron [at] mail.mcgill.ca

genre studies; feminism; film studies; abject theory; ecocriticism; monstrous-feminine

ChloeCAMPBELL

chloe.campbell [at] mail.mcgill.ca

AdèleCONTIS

adele.contis [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Marcello CORBANESE

naia.corbanese [at] mail.mcgill.ca

African-American literature; contemporary American; Black feminism; motherhood & mothering; genre fiction; literary historiography

NaomiDECKER

naomi.decker [at] mail.mcgill.ca

EmmaDIGIACOMO ZAHLLER

emma.digiacomozahller [at] mail.mcgill.ca

book history; Victorian literature; archives and bibliography; commonplace books; ephemera studies; canon formation; Medieval literature; publishing

Connor AnnDOKE

connor.doke [at] mail.mcgill.ca

CaitlynGERRISH

caitlyn.gerrish [at] mail.mcgill.ca

EloiseGROSSMAN

eloise.grossman [at] mail.mcgill.ca

IsabellaHOLMES

isabella.holmes [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Canadian and American literature; poetry and poetics; publishing; reception; genre; canon formation; paratext

SafnaMAMA

safna.mama [at] mail.mcgill.ca

ThomasNAKASAKO

thomas.nakasako [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Patrick CharlesPOULIN

patrick.poulin [at] mail.mcgill.ca

KatelynROGER

katelyn.roger [at] mail.mcgill.ca

FalihaSAIRALLY

faliha.sairally [at] mail.mcgill.ca

JiayiSITU

jiayi.situ [at] mail.mcgill.ca

comparative literature; national literature; Asian travelogues; multiculturalism; Anglophone literary market; translation and linguistics; Sino-Indian international relations; Derridean deconstructionism; historical materialism

JuliaSMITH

julia.smith4 [at] mail.mcgill.ca

ecocriticism; cultural studies; sociology in literature; speculative fiction

IsabellaSOUGARIS

isabella.sougaris [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Early Modern literature/drama; Shakespeare; supernatural/metaphysical bodies; Humorism; fairytales/folklore; Renaissance/Elizabethan poetry; medieval drama; drama/theatre History; modern drama

JacobSPONGA

jacob.sponga [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Modernism; classical reception; English, Italian, and Occitan medieval poetry; predicate logic and the philosophy of language; hermeneutics

JaedynULLERICK

jaedyn.ullerick [at] mail.mcgill.ca

SaskiaVAN DER SLUYS

saskia.vandersluys [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Shakespeare; queer theory; sexuality; performance studies; contemporary theatre

2024

Name

Email

Research Interests

Haider ALI

syed.h.ali [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Restoration literature; occasional verse; panegyric, satire, and elegy; historicism; global Early Modern studies; theoretical antihumanism; Lacanian psychoanalysis

Zainab ALQALLAF

zainab.alqallaf [at] mail.mcgill.ca

domestic space; house theory; domestic labor; object and body; spatial capital; Filipina maids; Henri Lefebvre; Pierre Bourdieu

Ali Mohammad ASIF

ali.asif [at] mail.mcgill.ca

postcolonialism, decolonization; postmodernism; Partition literature; nationalism

Miri BENEDIKT

miri.benedikt [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Medieval literature; Chaucer & Langland; moral psychology in classical to medieval philosophy & theology

Nina CLOUTIER

nina.cloutier [at] mail.mcgill.ca

contemporary literature, exophonic writing, travel literature, identity, nature and landscape, affect theory

Tony COOPER

tony.cooper [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Gothic literature; sound studies; the short story; modern poetry; historiography & historical fiction, narratology

Sara GONSALVES

sara.gonsalves [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Victorian literature; children’s literature; contemporary American society and politics

Aman GREWAL

aman.grewal [at] mail.mcgill.ca

contemporary literature; literary reception; reader engagement; digital humanities; genre; online literary fandom; BookTok

Jason GUSTILO

jason.gustilo [at] mail.mcgill.ca

video games; digital literature; queer theory; East Asian and South-East Asian literature; performance theory; contemporary literature; yaoi/boys love culture

Jeanne HOPE

jeanne.hope [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Victorian novel, women writers, feminine virtue, feminine monstrous, caretaking spaces, motherhood, the New Woman

Zakir JAMAL

zakir.jamal [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Mariana JIMÉNEZ ARANGO

mariana.jimenezarango [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Judeo-Christian theology, mystical and religious experience, Hellenism, 20th century Latin American literature

Natasha KINNE

natasha.kinne [at] mail.mcgill.ca

19th-century American literature; literature, health, and medicine

Titouan LE STER

titouan.lester [at] mail.mcgill.ca

contemporary literature; American and Canadian poetry; ecocriticism; Romanticism; Transcendentalism; intertextuality and philosophical approaches to poetry

Krystyna OAKMAN

krystyna.oakman [at] mail.mcgill.ca

20th-Century; popular literature; mid-century British fiction; Irish literature; the short story; feminist gothic; gender and sexuality; creative writing.

Eleonora PAPATHEOFANOUS

eleonora.papatheofanous [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Oscar Wild; decadence; perfectionism; the strange; grotesque; self; doppelganger

Kenzo PECCHIA

kenzo.pecchia [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Milton; English Ovidianism and Virgilianism; reception history; Renaissance poetry

Laura Maria QUIROGA

laura.quiroga [at] mail.mcgill.ca

theology & literature, Augustine of Hippo, literary Augustinianism, philosophy of religion and Romanticism, early modern England

Isabella SEALES

isabella.seales [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Edmund Spenser; J.R.R. Tolkien; fairy stories; British mythology; epic poetry

Mahnaz SEDDIQI

mahnaz.seddiqi [at] mail.mcgill.ca

critical theory; post World War 2; world literature; film; Italian Cinema; institutionality vs. subjectivity

Haesoo SHIN

haesoo.shin [at] mail.mcgill.ca

affect theory; anthropology beyond the human; dance, performance and movement studies; Buddhist philosophy; dreams; cultural studies; experimental poetics; contemplative pedagogy

Lucy ZAVITZ

lucy.zavitz [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Middle English, 15th-century literature; record-making; legacy building; autofiction

2023

Name

Email

Research Interests

Melissa AU

melissa.au [at] mail.mcgill.ca

medical literature, postcolonial theory, political theory in literature

Tazreen BARI

tazreen.bari [at] mail.mcgill.ca

ecocriticism, spatial theory, geopolitics, South Asian literature

Julia BIFULCO

julia.bifulco [at] mail.mcgill.ca

classical reception; Ovidian reception; Victorian poetry; the Pre-Raphaelites; Christina Rossetti; women's writing; Romanticism; the “fallen woman”; sisterhood

Chetan BHATNAGAR

chetan.bhatnagar [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Modernist prose and drama, poetry, film criticism, Romanticism, 17th century

Nawaal (Noor)BHUIYAN

noor.bhuiyan [at] mail.mcgill.ca

contemporary South Asian literature, disability studies, women writers

Abigail BUTLER

abigail.butler [at] mail.mcgill.ca

long 18th century, early women novelists, early novel, contemporary women’s fiction, pop culture, gender and sexuality, romance, digital literary communities

Yumi BLAKE

yumi.blake [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Yunhe (Veronique) CUI

yunhe.cui [at] mail.mcgill.ca

20th-and 21st-century Black diasporic fiction, trauma theories, postcolonial theories, the narratives

Georgi DE RHAM

georgiana.derham [at] mail.mcgill.ca

environmental humanities; contemporary poetry; ecocriticism; performance; cultural studies

Erika DELLA PENNA

erika.dellapenna [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Renaissance poetics and prose romances; Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney and Mary Wroth, gender and sexuality, Victorian fin de siècle; Pater, Wilde, Arnold, Ruskin

Evelyn FABER

evelyn.faber [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Sam FISCH

samantha.fisch-kessous [at] mail.mcgill.ca

medical humanities, trauma theory, modernism, queer theory

Eliana FREELUND

eliana.freelund [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Sahar HAMROUNI

sahar.hamrouni [at] mail.mcgill.ca

minority rights, Black/Indigenous studies, 21st century, political theory

Mads KLEMM

madeline.klemm [at] mail.mcgill.ca

performance studies, text for performance, contemporary dance and theatre, experimental performance

Diana KOBETIC

diana.kobetic [at] mail.mcgill.ca

textual translation and circulation in late medieval Europe; constructions of authority; devotional literature; mysticism; modernist medievalism; manuscript studies

Simon LEE

simon.lee [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Sonia LONGO

sonia.longo [at] mail.mcgill.ca

spatial and materialist theory; studies of form; the connected short story form; literary theory and criticism; aesthetics; the production of landscapes; urbanity

Benson MCDANIEL

benson.mcdaniel [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Shakti NIRMAL

shakti.nirmal [at] mail.mcgill.ca

20th century, African American fiction, Indian literature, journalism and media, feminism, modernism, modernist poetry, women’s literature

Solmaz SALEHI

solmaz.salehi [at] mail.mcgill.ca

translation and censorship in 20th and 21st centuries

Lillian SIMONS

lillian.simons [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Ramya SINGH

ramya.singh2 [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Cadence THAKUR

cadence.thakur [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Emma THULIN

emma.thulin [at] mail.mcgill.ca

19th century American Literature; historicism and cultural Marxism; feminist theory; Louisa May Alcott; economics of gender

Stefanie TSUI

stefanie.tsui [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Xinyi WU

xinyi.wu3 [at] mail.mcgill.ca

affect theory, 20th century American novels, narrative theory

Artemis YANNAKIS

artemis.yannakis [at] mail.mcgill.ca

literary Modernism; theories of the emotions; aesthetics; material culture; the philosophy and psychology of vitalism

2022

Name

Email

Research Interests

Laura BERTRAND

laura.bertrand [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Brittany BUSCIO

brittany.buscio [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Comparative literature; Dante in 19th-century America; identity and katabasis

Olivia COLPITTS

olivia.colpitts [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Erika DELLA CIOPPA

erika.dellacioppa [at] mail.mcgill.ca

19th century; gothic fiction; gender and sexuality

Sophie DERNOVSEK

sophie.dernovsek [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Maya DERY

maya.dery [at] mail.mcgill.ca

historical fiction; Jewish American literature; African American literature

Onyeka DIKE

onyeka.dike [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Comparative literature; gender studies; African-Canadian literature.

Emma DOLLERY

emma.dollery [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Postcolonial theory; magical realism; cinema studies.

Violette DROUIN

violette.drouin [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Canadian literature; ecocriticism; Acadian literature

Jennifer HUA

jennifer.hua [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Early modern drama; crossdressing; performance studies

Annabelle KANG

annabelle.kang [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Cold War studies; contemporary Korean literature and film; cultural studies; film studies; affect theory

Ryan LAFERRIÈRE

ryan.laferriere [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Elizabethan and Restoration drama; Arthurian romance; play theory

Hannah LINK

hannah.link [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Theatre and performance; film

Maya MAINLAND-GRATTON

maya.mainland-gratton [at] mail.mcgill.ca

ecocriticism; Canadian literature; poetry and poetics

Juliette NAEVEKE

juliette.naeveke [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Autobiography; queer theory; affect theory

Aamna RASHID

aamna.rashid [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Post-colonial theory and the Global South; South-Asian literature; gender studies; translation theory; Marxist literary theory; folklore

Jasper SATTENTAU

jasper.sattentau [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Postcolonial studies; African literature; metafiction; institutional critique; cognitive mapping

Mahin SIDDIKI

mahin.siddiki [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Caleb SMITH

caleb.smith2 [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Comic/BD studies; Joyce & Woolf

Bogdan STILMASHENKO

bogdan.stilmashenko [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Contemporary magical realism; literary theory of Toni Morrison & Elena Ferrante; critical and speculative histories; liberatory pedagogy

Mitchell SULLIVAN

mitchell.sullivan [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Shakespeare; animation

John SWISHER

john.swisher [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Megan SWITZER

megan.switzer [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Cultural studies; experimental film, poetry and poetics

Ezgi TULU

ezgi.tulu [at] mail.mcgill.ca

science fiction; utopia and dystopia; speculative fiction; the novel

Melissa VARLEY

melissa.varley [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Canadian Gothic; the Victorian novel; Ann-Marie MacDonald; Ecogothic; Pychoanalytic theories

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