Current grad students
Our department is home to about 50 graduate students engaged in a variety of research areas and programs.
Current MA students
| Name | Research area |
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| Dominique Atherton | Gothic Literature, Postclassical Narratology |
| Bryce Ballard | |
| Joanne Barnes | |
| Victoria Boers | |
| Maya Bridger Denz | |
| Nicolaas Caumanns | |
| Lucy Christopher | |
| Emma Cleland | |
| Madison Currie | |
| Aidan Dalton | |
| Autumn de León | Book History, Material Textuality, Trans Studies |
| Alexandra Dooley | |
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Olivia Druxerman |
Contemporary Canadian fiction and culture, cultural geography, environmental humanities, labour studies, hockey literature |
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Noelle Dye |
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Caden Elliott |
Early Modern, Metaphysical Poetry, History and Philosophy of Science/Technology |
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Mitch Fisher |
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Katherine Galloway |
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Hunter Hastings |
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Guarav Jain |
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Natalie Jasper |
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Jesse Kern |
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McKenna King |
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Annie LaCaprara |
Gothic and Victorian horror |
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Chi Le |
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| Scott Leitner | Gothic and Young Adult literature |
| Alexandra Lopez | |
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Roxy Moldovanu |
Children’s literature, affect theory, popular culture |
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Nader Nasiri |
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Christine Pepper |
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Sarah-Grace Ramsay |
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| Karl Sacca | contemporary drama, provocative theatre, disability studies, queer and LGBTQ+ literary studies, film studies, media studies, cultural studies |
| Zach Sedgman | Early Modern England, Shakespeare, Milton, Devotional Poetry, John Donne. |
| Ryan Shepherd | |
| Laura G. Stephenson | Literary & critical theory, myth, rhetoric, philosophy of literature, existentialism |
| Megan Sundberg | |
| Henry Svec | |
| Tyne Vainio | Early Modern devotional poetry (with an emphasis on Traherne, Milton, Bunyan, and Donne), Shakespeare, the Bible as literature, allusions, idea- history, maps, and semiotics. |
| Rebekah Van Voort | |
| Sarah Webster | |
| Cory Zydyk |
Current PhD students
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Ross
Research Area: Storytelling and climate change
My name is Chantal Bilodeau, and I’m a second-year PhD student as well as a trainee in the Coastal Climate Solutions Leaders program. My research explores how temporal imaginaries in storytelling can open our conception of time and make ecological transformation feel possible. By pairing this idea with the revolutionary power of joy, I hope to counter the doom-and-gloom narratives that dominate our cultural landscape.
I am originally from Montreal, but I spent many years in the US before moving to Victoria. I have an undergraduate degree in Film and MFAs in Film and Playwriting from Ohio University. Most of my career has been spent working at the intersection of theatre and the climate crisis—as a writer, editor, artistic director, workshop leader, public speaker, and organizer of Climate Change Theatre Action, a global festival of short plays that engages with climate issues.
Previous students PhD dissertations can be found on UVic Space.