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Vanessa Evans

Vanessa Evans completed her PhD in 91��ɫ's English Department in 2023 and began a position as Assistant Professor of Indigenous literatures at Appalachian State University that fall. In 2025, she joined the English Department and Center for Global Indigenous Cultures and Environment Justice at Syracuse University as an Assistant Professor of global Indigenous literatures. Her current monograph project considers how comparative approaches to diverse Indigenous literatures illuminate how Indigenous Peoples and nations are representing and enacting resurgence. Her research appears in venues such as Transmotion (forth.); Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal;���ٳ�� European Journal of American Studies;�����Ի� Studies in the Novel.

Alex Ferrone

Alex Ferrone completed his Ph.D. in the English Department at 91��ɫ in 2018, and he was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Theater Studies at Duke University from 2019 to 2023. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English in the Département de littératures et de langues du monde at l’Université de Montréal. He served as a lead editor of Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought and an editorial assistant at Modern Drama, and he is the current book reviews editor for Theatre Journal. His monograph, Stage Business and the Neoliberal Theatre of London, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021, and he has published articles and reviews in Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, Modern Drama, Comparative Drama, and Journal of American Drama and Theatre.

Thom Bryce McQuinn

Thom Bryce McQuinn graduated from 91��ɫ’s Department of English in 2015 with a PhD in Modern American Theatre. Along with fellow 91��ɫ English alumni Mel Dalgleish, Nemanja Protic, and Kate Siklosi, he helped co-found EGSA’s Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought. He also served for several years as an editorial assistant and copyeditor for the journal Modern Drama. He has previously published on the works of Canadian theatre artist Daniel MacIvor and contributed “Loose Wrists: Camp and Intersectional Politics in the Works of Cazwell, Todrick Hall, and Big Freedia” to the volume Analysing Gender in Performance, edited by J. Paul Halferty and Cathy Leeney (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

Anna Veprinska

Anna Veprinska is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary and the Wayne O. McCready Emerging Fellow at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. Among her publications are the monograph Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), which received Honourable Mention in the Memory Studies Association First Book Award, and the poetry collections Sew with Butterflies (Steel Bananas, 2014) and Bonememory (University of Calgary Press, 2025). Her third full-length collection of poems is forthcoming with Gordon Hill Press in 2026.

Julianna Will

Julianna Will completed her PhD in 91��ɫ’s English department in the spring of 2023. In January 2024, she began a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her main areas of research are in Greek and Latin languages and literature, Victorian Studies, and the intersections of classical and Victorian literature. Her current monograph explores the literary and cultural impact of the Athenian playwright Euripides in the long nineteenth century. She is the co-editor of Manuscripts, the tenth volume of Oxford University Press’s The Collected Works of Walter Pater.

Renée Harper

Renée Harper completed her PhD in English at 91��ɫ in 2023, focusing on literature, place, colonialism, and environmental justice in the Okanagan/Okanogan. She teaches English and Creative Writing at Selkirk College and co-founded Black Bear Review, the college's student-run literary and arts magazine. Her research explores environmental humanities and settler and Indigenous literatures. Harper is also a poet and fiction writer. Her debut poetry collection, Boundary Territory (2024), was published by Now or Never Publishing, and she is currently writing a historical novel.

Khem Guragain

Khem Guragain is a scholar of Global Anglophone and South Asian literatures whose research explores postcolonial theory, caste, indigeneity, diaspora, and decolonization. He is the author of Redefining Postcolonial Theory through Dalit and Adivasi Literature: Centring Marginalized Voices (Routledge, 2027). His current project, Indigeneity Across Continents, compares Canadian Indigenous, Nepali Janajati, and Indian Adivasi literatures. Guragain holds a PhD in English from 91��ɫ and teaches literature and communication at Seneca Polytechnic.

Navneet Alang

Navneet Alang is an editor at the Toronto Star in the Opinion section. He is also a writer, focusing on tech, food and drink and issues of identity and culture since 2008. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Walrus, New 91��ɫ Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Eater and of course, the Toronto Star, in addition to many others. He completed his PhD in 2016 and focused on digital formations of identity in diasporic South Asian narratives.