Hannah McGregor – 2009 –
Hannah McGregor (http://hannahmcgregor.wordpress.com) is a SSHRC-funded PhD candidate and TransCanada Institute Doctoral Fellow in the School of English and Theatre Studies; she is also a graduate fellow for Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC). Her dissertation engages with complicity and ethics in white Canadian women’s representations of the “foreign,” focusing on the work of Camilla Gibb, Kim Echlin, and Karen Connelly. She has published essays on Gibb (ESC) and documentary-maker Nelofer Pazira (Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace: Explorations in Canadian Women’s Archives, ed. Linda Morra and Jessica Schagerl), and has presented papers on Echlin, Martha Ostenso, and Carol Shields, as well as digital sustainability, authorial websites, PhD professionalization, and editorial theory. As a Doctoral Fellow at TransCanada Institute she has been active in co-organizing different events and workshops.
Shannon Maguire – 2012 –
Shannon Maguire’s research interests include Canadian Literature, avant-garde and radical poetry, digital literature, and queer theory. She has presented conference papers on digital and radical poetics and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph, as well as a MA in Text/Community/Discourse from Brock University. Her Major Research Project focused on the ideological and aesthetic implications of intersections of technology, gender,and nationalism in Anne Marriott’s modernist long poem, “Calling Adventureres!” She is the recipient of the 2012 Marilyn J. Rose Award for Excellence in English Language and Literature. Her poems have appeared in “ditch”, “CV2”, and “Gulch: An Assemblage of Poetry And Prose” (Tightrope, 2009). She is the author of the chapbook “Vowel Wolves And Other Knots” (above/ground press, 2011). “Fur(l) Parachute”, her first full- length collection, was shortlisted for the 2011 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, and is forthcoming from BookThug in 2013. She is the co-curator of AvantGarden, a Toronto based, experimental reading series.
Cameron Kroetsch – 2012 –
Cameron Kroetsch holds an MA in Classics from the University of Western Ontario, where his research project addressed elements of Roman funerary practice and performance. During his time at Western he was involved with the Canadian Poetry Project and in graduate coursework on the American ode. Cameron also holds a BEd from the University of Toronto and a BA from Brock University. His research interests include contemporary Canadian poetry and poetics, especially poetic expressions of commemoration, mourning, and melancholia. Other research interests include: Archibald Lampman, Classical adaptation in Canadian literature, mythology and historiography, dead pet poetry, semantics, and Robert Duncan.
Robert Zacharias – 2006-2011
Robert Zacharias holds a PhD from the University of Guelph (April 2011); he wrote his dissertation, “Narrative Strains: Tracing the Russian Mennonite Migration through Canadian Literature,” as a doctoral fellow at TransCanada Institute, where he was actively engaged in co-organizing various events. He has a Bachelor of Education (2001) and a Master of Arts (2006) from the University of Manitoba. His primary research interests are migration in Canadian literature, ethnicity, and Mennonite writing; other research interests include diaspora, imperialism, 18th Century British fiction, and critical pedagogy. His wide-ranging publications include work in the journals Mosaic, Renaissance and Reformation, Studies in Canadian Literature, and Essays in Canadian Writing, as well as chapters in the edited collections Delimiting Citizenship: Aboriginal and Diasporic Literary Perspectives and Embracing Otherness: Canadian Minority Discourses in Transcultural Perspectives. He is also the co-editor, along with Smaro Kamboureli, of Shifting the Ground of Literary Studies in Canada (2012), in which he has a chapter on the trope of crisis in Canadian criticism. He has recently been named the Associate Editor of the Journal for Mennonite Studies, and he is currently a SSRHC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto, where he is exploring the “return journey” in contemporary Canadian Literature.
Paul Danyluk – 2006-2009 (discontinued)
Paul Danyluk studied English and Creative Writing at York University before completing an MA at Simon Fraser University with a focus on print culture and Canadian literature. While a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow at the University of Guelph he examined contemporary Canadian performance poetry and evolving academic subjectivities. Paul left the University of Guelph in 2009, after reading ABD status, to pursue hands-on work in social justice. While working with the Ontario Co-operative Association, he coordinated the completion of the first comprehensive online certificate program in co-operative business management, in conjunction with the Schulich School of Business. Paul is planning a career that will allow him to use the critical skills developed as a graduate student in the non-profit, arts, and education fields. He played a major role in the organizing of the TransCanada 2 Conference held at the University of Guelph. Paul discontinued his academic studies in order to pursue a career in the non-profit sector.