Visiting Scholars
TransCanada Institute sponsors visiting scholars interested in pursuing research at the University of Guelph and in nearby research institutions that fits its mandate. While it cannot provide financial support, it offers generous in-kind support in the form of office space, full library privileges, computing and other research facilities, and an environment conducive to intellectual dialogue and collaboration.
Research Fellows affiliated with the Institute for at least one term are expected to share their research with the other Institute Fellows and five a public lecture.
André Pereira Feitosa
2009
André Pereira Feitosa is a doctoral student in Compared Literature at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. His project focuses on the grotesque in the works of Angela Carter, Lya Luft and Susan Swan. He has finished his master's degree in Canadian Literature at UFMG entitled "The Female Body and the Cannibalistic Redemption in The Edible Woman: The Grotesque in Margaret Atwood."
Sergio Bellei
2008
Sérgio Luiz Bellei is a professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Studies in the Department of Foreign Languages at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. He is the author of O Cristal em Chamas (1986), Nacionalidade e Literatura (1992), Monstros Índios e Canibais (2000) and O Livro, a Literatura e o Computador (2002). His main contribution to periodicals and collected works in Brazil and abroad include essays on comparative culture, and more recently, on the cultural significance of hypertext: “Brazilian visitors to the U.S.: 20th century perspectives” (North Dakota Quarterly, 1992); “Brazilian Culture in the Frontier” (Bulletin of Latin American Research, 1995); “A virgem dos lábios sem mel” (Luso-Brasilian Review, 1999); “odeandrade@pindorama.org.br; ou e-mail para Oswald,” (Luso-Brasilian Review, 2002); “Brazilian anthropophagy revisited” (essay published by Cambridge UP in Cannibalism and the colonial world, ed. by Peter Hulme, 1998). He is currently writing a book on digital libraries, hypertext, and literature.
Shaily Mudgal
2008
Shaily Mugdal is a doctoral student in the Department of English, University of Rajasthan, in Jaipur, India. Her dissertation, “Third-World Negotiations with Canadian Identity: A Study in Theory and Practice,” explores Canadian diasporic representations. Her affiliation with TransCanada Institute was facilitated by a six-month fellowship from the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.