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Christopher Balcom defended his dissertation, “Between Communist Internationalism and a ‘New Humanism’: Episodes in the Intellectual History of Twentieth Century Anticolonialism” in October 2025. His research interests, broadly conceived, encompass Marxist and anticolonial intellectual history and debates over the politics of humanism and antihumanism. His writing has been published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Contemporary Political Theory, ���Ի���The CLR James Journal.

Isis is an independent researcher, artist and business owner based in Parkdale, Toronto. Her dissertation examines the limits of Western humanist determinism and develops Anti-Colonial Indeterminacy as an analytic for reading refusal, alternative political possibilities and the otherwise within texts. Her current work looks at questions of the ethical in multi-epistemic literacy.

Munjeera Jefford, PhD in Social and Political Thought from 91��ɫ, recently defended her dissertation "Towards Anticolonial Praxis: Utilizing the Funds of Knowledge Strategy for the Case Study of a Toronto Music School," which encourages educators to integrate the lived experiences and community knowledge—particularly those from marginalized backgrounds—into the classroom, administration and policy practices to challenge systemic colonial legacies. A former ESL instructor and supervisor with the Toronto District School Board and Seneca College English professor, Munjeera currently works in education management.

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Patrick Michael Teed is a Faculty of Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Toronto and an incoming Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Fellow in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. As an interdisciplinary scholar working in the theoretical humanities, his scholarship covers a wide terrain of interests, including: Black critical theory; psychoanalysis; racial slavery and abolitionism; continental philosophy; and science and technology studies. His available essays can be found in: differences, Diacritics, Lateral, New Centennial Review, Rhizomes, Social & Cultural Geography, ���Ի���TOPIA. He has guest edited a special issue of TOPIA focusing on Black critical theoretical approaches to the keywords care and cure and is guest editing a 2028 special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly on the influence of Christina Sharpe’s first monograph Monstrous Intimacies. He is currently working on two book projects. His first, Deconstructing Life: Epigenesis, Antiblackness, interrogates the racism structural to critical theory’s enchantment with postgenomic science and his second, Whither Abolition?, provides an immanent critique of abolitionist literature and theory. Complementing his written scholarship, Patrick maintains an award-winning theatre practice with his theatre company Afterlife Theatre.

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