Graduate Student Profiles

PhD

David Shaw

David Shaw is a PhD candidate in the English department at Concordia University. His research focuses on posthumanism, postcolonial theory, and the intersection of realism and climate change. He’s the coordinator of the Representing the Anthropocene reading group. Some of his writing can be found at https://davidshaw.website

Jessica Ruzek

Jessica Ruzek is an instructor and doctoral student in Concordia University’s Department of English, where her research focuses on the environmental humanities, forest/landscape literature and aesthetics,
and postcolonial, decolonial, and media studies. At present, Ruzek’s work concentrates on themes of pestiferousness and abjectivity in forest infrastructures.

Priscilla Jolly

Priscilla Jolly is a PhD student in the Department of English, with an interest in how landscapes are created. Her current research draws on environmental humanities, landscape studies and postcolonial studies, and her project seeks to analyse the intersections of landscape and posthuman bodies, with a focus on speculative fiction. The project also looks at the creation of tropics as a spatial entity and the interaction of racialised bodies and the tropics. Apart from speculative fiction, Priscilla also enjoys reading contemporary eco-horror, and enjoys learning languages and fussing over houseplants.

Brieanna Lebel

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MAs

Brennan McCracken

Brennan McCracken is a student and writer from K’jipuktuk/Halifax, NS currently living in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, QC. He is an MA student in the department of English at Concordia, where he is working on a thesis project that considers the ecological and speculative affordances of contemporary experimental prose. His research interests encompass the environmental humanities, queer and wild theory, decolonial studies and critical posthumanism.

His writing on contemporary literature, music and culture has been published in Maisonneuve, Musicworks, This, Visual Arts News, and The Coast, Halifax’s alt-weekly. He also works as a Social Media Assistant for the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology and serves on the jury of the Polaris Music Prize. He likes experimental music, analogue media, and the ocean.

Sofie Falther

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