Doctoral Fellows

Hannah McGregor
2009-

Hannah McGregor's research focuses on contemporary Canadian literature and the ethics of reading and representation. Other research interests include twentieth century British literature, modernism and the middlebrow, and digital humanities, an area that she has explored through her work with the Editing Modernism in Canada MCRI. She has presented papers on Carol Shields' Unless at ACCUTE; on Emma Donoghue at St. Mary's University's Queering Ireland conference; and on the collaborative work of Martha Ostenso and Douglas Durkin at the University of Victoria's Digital Humanities Summer Institute. Hannah completed her MA in English at the University of Alberta, where her research focused on ethnography, diaspora and hybridity in Camilla Gibb's Sweetness in the Belly; this paper is now forthcoming in English Studies in Canada. Her research on Afghan-Canadian documentary maker Nelofer Pazira is also forthcoming as a chapter in Basements and Attics: Explorations in the Materiality and Ethics of Canadian Women's Archives. Hannah holds the Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship.

Jodie Salter
2009-

Jodie Salter holds an MA in English from Simon Fraser University, where her project addressed pedagogy in higher education and West Coast Literature. She completed two years of her PhD program at the University of Victoria before transferring to the University of Guelph's SETS program. Developing an interdisciplinary methodology that integrates sociological studies on ageing with literary theories, her PhD research focuses on old age, women, diasporic and Indigenous storytellers, reciprocity, and narratology. She has delivered papers at numerous conferences across Canada, and, most recently, has taught courses in academic communication for international graduate students at the University of Victoria. Prior to her graduate studies, she worked in Special Education with children with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome and for the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development.

Robert Zacharias
2006-2011

Robert Zacharias defended his dissertation, Narrative Strains: Tracing the Russian Mennonite Migration through Canadian Literature, in April 2011. He has a B Ed and an MA from the University of Manitoba, and a PhD from the University of Guelph. His research interests include theories of migration, Mennonite literature, and the institutionalization of Canadian literature; other interdisciplinary research interests include diaspora, imperialism, 18th Century British fiction, film, academic tone, and critical pedagogy. His publications include work in the journals Mosaic, Renaissance and Reformation, Studies in Canadian Literature, and Essays in Canadian Writing, as well as 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 Dr. Smaro Kamboureli, of Shifting the Ground of Literary Studies in Canada (2012). He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto.

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.