International Symposium (online)
Hi/Stories at the Crossroads: Intersectionality & Canadian Narratives
Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, 91ŃÇÉ« | May 22, 2026

Intersectionality, as a framework for understanding how multiple social identities and systems of inequality overlap to shape people’s experiences of privilege and oppression, helps explain why the effects of different forms of discrimination are not experienced in isolation but interact in complex ways.  Engaging intersectionality in Canadian narratives involves looking at how overlapping identities (race, gender, class, disability, sexuality, indigeneity, immigration status, etc.) shape characters, communities, and storytelling across genres and media. We are interested in exploring complex colonial and Indigenous sovereignties; multicultural and multilingual fabric; regional diversity and geography; policy and institutional contexts; Indigenous resurgence and reconciliation discourse; diverse media ecosystems and formats; histories of migration, bilingualism, and transnational connections; and Canada as a social project. 

This international symposium hopes to open a discussion about the possibilities and limitations that various intersectionality theories set for practicing literary and cultural analysis. 

We invite you to join us ONLINE on Friday, May 22, 2026.
Click on the following link to register (free):

This event is co-organized by the Institute of Literature and New Media, Faculty of Humanities, University of Szczecin; and Institute of Romance Studies, Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw.

SCHEDULE

For further information, contact Carolyn Podruchny, carolynp@yorku.caÌęor Weronkia Suchacka,Ìęweronikasuchacka@gmail.com

BIOS

BENJAMIN BEAUCHEMIN
Benjamin Beauchemin is a PhD student at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Comparative Literature. He wrote his SSHRC funded master’s thesis Living Through Extinction: The MĂ©tis Buffalo Hunting Memoir at 91ŃÇÉ«. He published an article titled “Reconsidering L’espace de Louis Goulet” in Pawaatamihk: Journal of MĂ©tis Thinkers. He has also co-published an article on land restoration in Refractions: A Journal of Postcolonial Cultural Criticism alongside other members of the 440 Collective. Benjamin was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and is a member of the Manitoba MĂ©tis Federation.

JANE CLARE COOPER
Jane Cooper is a professional researcher and writer whose interests span from local history to international politics. For more than twenty-five years, she has been bringing to life stories from the past and present, drawing on extensive research and hands-on experience in Canada and abroad. Her publications include aÌęÌęnon-fiction political thriller about monitoring Ukrainian elections (in press,ÌęMcGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024); two edited collections of historical correspondence (JMD Media, 2011 and Osgoode Township Museum, 2014); a full-length historical biography (Freisen PressÌę2017); five literary essays (Queen’s Quarterly, Spring and Fall 2019, Winter 2021; Opera Canada, 2019; Alberta History, 2012); and twenty-five public policy reports (The Conference Board of Canada, 2016-2022.)

PILAR CUDER-DOMÍNGUEZ
Pilar Cuder-DomĂ­nguez is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Huelva, Spain. Her research interests are the intersections of gender, genre, nation, and race from decolonial, anti-racist, feminist methodologies. Some recent publications on Canadian literature are "Esi Edugyan: Black Fugitivity and the Possibility of a Second Life"Ìęin The Routledge Handbook of Black Canadian Literature (2024), edited by Andrea Davis and Leslie Sanders; and "Undoing Slavery’s Anonymity: The Politics of Identification in Twenty-First Century Black Canadian Poetry" in ÌęLiterature, Critique, and Empire TodayÌę59.2-3 (2024).

SARA DEL ROSSI
Sara Del Rossi is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of French Studies at the University of Warsaw. Member of the ECO/EGO and MICROFORMA research groups, she is the author of OĂč va le kont ? Dynamiques transculturelles de l’oraliture haĂŻtienne (L’Harmattan, 2022) and several articles on Haitian oraliture and its contemporary forms. Her research is framed within an intersectional and decolonial perspective, and also focuses on Indigenous literatures in French, migration writing, theatre, neo-oral forms, as well as children’s and young adult literature.

SUSAN DION
Susan DionÌęis a Lunaapew-Potawatomi scholar with Irish/ Quebecois ancestry who has been working in the field of education for more than thirty years. Professor in the Faculty of Education at 91ŃÇÉ«, her research focuses on Lunaapeew Language, History and Culture; and Indigenizing, Decolonizing and Realizing Indigenous Education.ÌęHer publication, Indigenous Students and Settler Teachers Caught in the Double Bind of Settler SchoolingÌęreceived theÌę 2025 Canadian Association of Curriculum StudiesÌęOutstanding Publication Award. Dion is an active Lunaape language learner. Learning the language with family and community is a project that brings together her academic work and her commitment to Lunaapeew recouperation.

VIVIAN M. MAY
Vivian M. May, author of Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist (2007) and Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries (2015), is Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies at Syracuse University, where she leads the university’s Humanities Center as well as the Central New 91ŃÇÉ« Humanities Corridor, an 11-university collaborative research consortium.

LAURA MOSS
Laura Moss is Professor of English in the Department of English Language and Literatures at UBC where she primarily teaches Canadian and African literatures, the literary and cultural history of Canada, postcolonial and anti-colonial writing, and environmental humanities.Ìę

MICHAƁ OBSZYƃSKI
MichaƂ ObszyƄski is an associate professor at the Institute of Romance Studies at the University of Warsaw. His academic interests focus on francophone literature from Quebec, the Caribbean, and Africa, particularly on topics such as francophone literary discourse, literary manifestos and programs in francophone regions, as well as literary representations of colonies. He is the author of the book Manifestes et programmes littĂ©raires aux CaraĂŻbes francophones (Brill, 2016), and he also co-edited the collective volume DĂ©chiffrer l’AmĂ©rique. MĂ©langes offerts Ă  JĂłzef Kwaterko (Presses of the University of Warsaw, 2020). More recently, he co-edited the collective volume Le Canada et l’imaginaire du Nord: enjeux gĂ©opolitiques, identitaires et esthĂ©tiques (Harassowitz Verlag, 2024). He also carried out a research project on the ideological determinants of the status of Afro-diasporic writers and literary texts in the debates of literary congresses and Pan-African festivals from 1945 to the present day.

CAROLYN PODRUCHNY
Carolyn Podruchny, PhD, is Deputy Director of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies and a Professor of History at 91ŃÇÉ«. Her research focuses on the relationships forged between Indigenous peoples and French colonists in northern North America.ÌęShe is preparing a scholarly edition of the writings of the fur trader and North West Company partner John McDonald of Garth.ÌęShe also co-edited two collections about Indigeneity in the Philippines, one with the University of Hawai’i Press and the other with the University of the Philippines Baguio Cordillera Studies Centre. Recent articles have explored Metis women’s history in 19th-century buffalo brigades.ÌęShe hasÌęserved as co-editor for theÌęJournal of the Canadian History Association /ÌęRevue de la SociĂ©tĂ© historique du CanadaÌęandÌęHistoire sociale / Social HistoryÌę(for which she is currently the director) and she co-edits a series with McGill-Queen's University Press.

JULIE RAK
Julie Rak (FRSC) holds the Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Her latest book is False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction (2021). She has written extensively on nonfiction, including Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market (2013) and Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse (2004). With Sonia Boon, Candida Rifkind, and Laurie McNeill she wrote The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada (2022). She holds a SSHRC IDG grant on contemporary journaling as a postdigital practice and is a team member on the SSHRC Project Reading for Our Lives.

CARLA RICE
Carla Rice is Professor and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Feminist Studies and Social Practice and Founding and Academic Director of the Re‱Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice at the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada). She specializes in feminist, difference, decolonial and disability theory and in research creation methodologies with a focus on changing systems and fostering social well-being and justice. Her work has received national and international recognition, including induction into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, the British Psychological Society’s Outstanding International Researcher Prize, and Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor’s Heritage Award.

AGNIESZKA RZEPA
Prof. Agnieszka Rzepa is head of the Canadian Literature Research Unit at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. She has taught and conducted research on Canadian literature since the early 1990s, focusing on contemporary Canadian novel and short story, Canadian postcolonial studies, as well as Indigenous and Black Canadian literatures and Canadian life writing. Her publications include the monographs Feats and defeats of memory: Exploring spaces of Canadian magic realism (2009) and The self and the world. Aspects of the aesthetics and politics of contemporary North American literary memoir by women (2018; with Dagmara Drewniak and Katarzyna Macedulska). She is founding member and former President of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies.

WERONIKA SUCHACKA
Weronika Suchacka holds a PhD from the University of Greifswald, Germany. She is a recipient of the Stiftung fĂŒr Kanada-Studien Research Prize (2009), the Junior Fellowship at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald (2014-2015), and the Visiting Professorship at the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at 91ŃÇÉ« (2026). She is an assistant professor at the University of Szczecin, Poland, where she co-founded the Szczecin Canadian Studies Group (2011). She also taught at the University of Greifswald and the University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on contemporary Canadian literature, specifically ethnic/diasporic writing in Canada, space, and intersectionality. She contributed to Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home (ed. by Lisa Grekul and Lindy Ledohowski; 2016), the winner of the 2018 Kobzar Literary Award; and her most recent publication, Identity and Poetics of Ukrainian Canadian Literature: En Route (co-ed. Mariya Shymchyshyn; Routledge, forthcoming) continues her primary research interest in English-language Ukrainian-Canadian writing.

ROBERT ZACHARIAS
Robert Zacharias is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of English at 91ŃÇÉ« in Toronto. His publications include Rewriting the Break Event: Mennonites and Migration in Canadian Literature (U Manitoba) and Reading Mennonite Writing: A Study in Minor Transnationalism (Penn State), which was shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize in Canadian literary criticism. He is editor of After Identity: Mennonite Writing in North America (Penn State), and co-editor, with Smaro Kamboureli, of Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies (Wilfrid Laurier). His most recent work includes a SSHRC-funded project in literary tourism in Canada.

MARUSYA BOCIURKIW
Marusya Bociurkiw is a writer, curator, filmmaker and Professor Emeritus at Toronto Metropolitan University. She got her start as a filmmaker in the 1980’s experimental video/film movement and has since directed or co-directed eleven films and videos. She has published essays and articles in The Globe & Mail, Now Magazine, Xtra!, Rabble, The Canadian Journal of Communication, and many other academic and literary publications. Her 6 books, the most recent of which is Food Was Her Country: The Memoir of a Queer Daughter, span several genres and have won or been shortlisted for several awards. Her 2015 film, “This Is Gay Propaganda: LGBT Rights & the War in Ukraine” (2015) screened in 13 countries & was translated into four languages. Her latest film, the award-winning “Analogue Revolution: How Feminist Media Changed the World” examines the role of analogue technologies in feminism and social change. It was nominated for best documentary by the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards. From the recording and rewriting of family foodways to the auto-ethnographic examination of feminist video collectives in Canada - her work broadly concerns itself with the narrativizing of archives, and their corrective role in national memory.

GEORGE ELIOTT CLARKE
The 4th Poet Laureate of Toronto (2012-15) and the 7th Parliamentary/Canadian Poet Laureate (2016-17), George Elliott Clarke hails from Windsor, Nova Scotia, as of 1960 Clarke is also a pioneering scholar of African-Canadian literature, with two major tomes to his credit: Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature (2002) and Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature (2012). A professor of English at the University of Toronto, Clarke has taught at Duke, McGill, the University of British Columbia, and Harvard. He holds eight honorary doctorates, plus appointments to the Order of Nova Scotia and the Order of Canada at the rank of Officer. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. His recognitions include the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre Fellowship (US), the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellows Prize, the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry, the National Magazine Gold Award for Poetry, the Premiul Poesis (Romania), the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry (US), and International Fellow Poet of the Year, Encyclopedic Poetry School 2019. His acclaimed titles include Whylah Falls (1990, translated into Chinese), Beatrice Chancy (1999, translated into Italian), Execution Poems (2001), Blues and Bliss (selected poems, 2009), I & I (2008), Illicit Sonnets (U.K., 2013), Traverse (2015), Canticles II (MMXX) (2020), Canticles III (MMXXII) (2022), and J’Accuse
! (Poem versus Silence) (2021). Clarke penned the libretto for James Rolfe’s triumphant, tragic opera, Beatrice Chancy (1998), plus two lyrics for Four the Moment’s 2022 Polaris Heritage Prize-winning album, We’re Still Standing (1987).

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“Back from the field?” Insights from emerging scholars

• 27 January 2023 at 2pm
• Register in advance for this meeting: ÌęÌę
• Emerging scholars will share their experiences with learning a different language for fieldwork, the challenges they faced doing research, and a host of related topics.

Thinking and researching through multiple languages: Insights from established scholars

• 10 February 2023 at 2pm
• Register in advance for this meeting: Ìę
• Established scholars will explore some of the issues that they have faced relating to conceptualizing, translating and researching at the intersection of different languages and cultural worlds. They will share from their own research trajectories what has been the most challenging and the most rewarding.

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Tuesday, 13 December 2022

12:00–13:00 | Council of Members Meeting

Join us to learn about the activities of the Centre.
Fully online. Zoom:

13:00–15:00 | Coffee, Pastries, & Headshots

Drop by the Centre (7th floor, Kaneff Tower) for a casual get together with light refreshments!

Associates in need of a professional photograph can have one taken here. Please email (robarts@yorku.ca) to set an appointment.

16:00–17:00 | 2022 Robarts Lecture by Daniel BĂ©land

The Changing Politics of Fiscal Federalism in Canada: Recent Challenges and Potential Policy Solutions
13 December 2022  |  519 Kaneff Tower  |  16:00–17:00 EST  |  Reception to follow
This is a hybrid event. To attend via Zoom:

17:00–18:30 | Reception

519 Kaneff Tower | Light refreshments and live music. Featuring the Liam Stanley Duo.

For more information, please contact us: robarts@yorku.ca

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The (CPM) cluster within the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at 91ŃÇÉ« invites you to submit your work for our second edition of .

Canada Watch is the main publication of the Robarts Centre. The publication is for academic and non-academic audiences and shares practical and analytical insights on various topics, themes, and issues critical to understanding Canada. Written in lay language, it is a helpful tool for knowledge dissemination across diverse audiences. This is great opportunity to share your research beyond academia and to connect with people and communities interested in mad studies. 

The Cluster is reaching out first to the presenters and attendees of our recent event to invite you to submit your work to the Special Edition to be published and circulated Canada wide in the fall of 2022.  The article can be on the work presented or any other current work.

Submission:

• Up to 1000 words and should include subheadings
• References and endnotes must be kept to a bare minimum
• Content format is sharp, incisive and easily readable (lay language)
• Provide a short bio (up to 100 words), a photo, email (and/or social media handle)

Deadline: Monday, October 17^th, 2022

Please send an email with your intent to submit and send submissions in a Word document to Cindy Jiang at cindyj@yorku.ca.

Please do not hesitate to contact the Steering Committee if there are any questions, comments, concerns.

Thank you.

Critical Perspectives on Mental Health Cluster Steering Committee:

• Simon Adam, Assistant Professor, Health/Nursing, siadam@yorku.ca
• Megan Davies, Professor, LA&PS/Health & Society, daviesmj@yorku.ca
• Marina Morrow, Professor, Health/SHPM, mmmorrow@yorku.ca
• Cindy Jiang, PhD student, Critical Disability Studies, cindyj@yorku.ca

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How has digital technology reshaped our experiences and understandings of animals? Documenting two major international art exhibitions, Exhibiting Digital Animalities demonstrates the significance of contemporary art as a site for rethinking and restating human-animal relations. The twelve curated projects seek to broaden the range of artistic approaches to animals facilitated by digital technologies. Furthering the exploration started by the exhibitions, Exhibiting Digital Animalities brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to interview the artists and artist collectives. These probing conversations explore digital technology’s reconfiguration of human-animal relations, making work in response to the Anthropocene, the ethics of animal art, and the affordances of digital technology for art practice.

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Check out the Robarts Graduate Student Conference 2021 playlist on our YouTube channel. 

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Deadline for abstracts: October 26, 2020

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Her paper, nominated by Professor Lee Frew for “Canadian Literature and the Great War (GL/EN 4642)” at Glendon College, was the unanimous choice by the selection committee to win the Odessa Prize. In their decision, they write that she “demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection, as well as insightful readings of the plays Dancock's Dance by Guy Vanderhaeghe (2005) and Unity (1918) by Kevin Kerr (2014) in light of Kristeva's thinking. 
 This analysis demonstrates an exceptional understanding of both the theory and the plays: frankly, the essay is outstanding, graduate student-level work.”

We asked her to reflect on the process of researching and writing this paper and what the award means to her:

When Professor Frew first told me that he’d nominated my paper for the Odessa Prize, I was ecstatic just for that compliment alone. A few months passed and with COVID chaos swimming around my head, I very nearly forgot about the nomination (which was admittedly partially intentional, I’d made up a few consolatory excuses for myself as to why it’d be totally fine if I didn’t win). The email from Gabrielle Slowey [Director of the Robarts Centre] congratulating me for having won came as a huge surprise, and I re-read it an embarrassing number of times for it to sink in that such kind words of praise were written in reference to my work. I was elated, to say the very least.

I’m incredibly grateful to Irvin Studin for establishing the Odessa Prize, and I have to say that it came at an especially difficult time COVID-wise, which made it all the more significant. It hit me that I couldn’t imagine a better way to wrap up my degree, with my final English paper being awarded such a huge honour. It really did feel like the icing on the labour-intensive cake! I’d also like to highlight that I really owe my interest in Canadian Studies to Lee Frew, because it’s in taking his English courses every year as my absolute favourite professor that I was introduced to the field in the first place. The English department really won’t be the same without Lee.

Natalia began work on the paper in March as the COVID-19 crisis was intensifying around the world. Today she is still reflecting on the way her work is helping her understand the situation we all find ourselves in today:

I continue to think about my paper’s focus on the various ways in which people (or characters) cope with horrific circumstances, for better for worse. Lately I’ve been specifically thinking of this in terms of “COVID hoaxers” who, whether consciously or not, seem to use denial as what we might call a (terribly dangerous) coping mechanism. I can’t help but look at this through a Kristevan lens as I do in my paper, because I’d argue that this denial of horror is essentially a refusal to engage with the “abject” for its reminder of our mortality. The irony here is that Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection demonstrates that the abject to be a powerful and crucial form of protection. To reel myself back in here, my simple conclusion is an obvious one that we see playing out in real-time today: engagement with the abject/horror of the pandemic means you may be terrified, but you’re better protected; whereas its opposite leads to the under-protection of yourself and everyone around you. The takeaway is that fear may be unpleasant, but it can absolutely be harnessed for productive means. This is why even as things start to feel more “normal”, Kristeva would wag an admonishing finger at anyone who didn’t don a mask to brave the outdoors, and I’d side with her.

*     *     *

And finally, we asked Natalia about her future plans:

I’ll be returning to Glendon in September to finish up my certificate in Communications. I’m also the project manager at Lunik, our student-run Cooperative on campus. As for what I’d like to do in the future academically-speaking, that really is the million-dollar question! My exhausted student answer would be “nothing!!”, but I entered into my BA with the hopes of one day becoming an English professor and I still entertain that idea. For now, though, my plan is to teach English in Korea for a couple of years after I graduate (I know, classic English major move, but I’m so excited), and then to re-evaluate if I’d like to get back in the saddle and do a Masters (very likely in Canadian Studies) once I return home to Canada.

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Her paper, nominated by Professor Lee Frew for “Canadian Literature and the Great War (GL/EN 4642)” at Glendon College, was the unanimous choice by the selection committee to win the Odessa Prize. In their decision, they write that she “demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection, as well as insightful readings of the plays Dancock's Dance by Guy Vanderhaeghe (2005) and Unity (1918) by Kevin Kerr (2014) in light of Kristeva's thinking. 
 This analysis demonstrates an exceptional understanding of both the theory and the plays: frankly, the essay is outstanding, graduate student-level work.”

We asked her to reflect on the process of researching and writing this paper and what the award means to her:

When Professor Frew first told me that he’d nominated my paper for the Odessa Prize, I was ecstatic just for that compliment alone. A few months passed and with COVID chaos swimming around my head, I very nearly forgot about the nomination (which was admittedly partially intentional, I’d made up a few consolatory excuses for myself as to why it’d be totally fine if I didn’t win). The email from Gabrielle Slowey [Director of the Robarts Centre] congratulating me for having won came as a huge surprise, and I re-read it an embarrassing number of times for it to sink in that such kind words of praise were written in reference to my work. I was elated, to say the very least.

I’m incredibly grateful to Irvin Studin for establishing the Odessa Prize, and I have to say that it came at an especially difficult time COVID-wise, which made it all the more significant. It hit me that I couldn’t imagine a better way to wrap up my degree, with my final English paper being awarded such a huge honour. It really did feel like the icing on the labour-intensive cake! I’d also like to highlight that I really owe my interest in Canadian Studies to Lee Frew, because it’s in taking his English courses every year as my absolute favourite professor that I was introduced to the field in the first place. The English department really won’t be the same without Lee.

Natalia began work on the paper in March as the COVID-19 crisis was intensifying around the world. Today she is still reflecting on the way her work is helping her understand the situation we all find ourselves in today:

I continue to think about my paper’s focus on the various ways in which people (or characters) cope with horrific circumstances, for better for worse. Lately I’ve been specifically thinking of this in terms of “COVID hoaxers” who, whether consciously or not, seem to use denial as what we might call a (terribly dangerous) coping mechanism. I can’t help but look at this through a Kristevan lens as I do in my paper, because I’d argue that this denial of horror is essentially a refusal to engage with the “abject” for its reminder of our mortality. The irony here is that Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection demonstrates that the abject to be a powerful and crucial form of protection. To reel myself back in here, my simple conclusion is an obvious one that we see playing out in real-time today: engagement with the abject/horror of the pandemic means you may be terrified, but you’re better protected; whereas its opposite leads to the under-protection of yourself and everyone around you. The takeaway is that fear may be unpleasant, but it can absolutely be harnessed for productive means. This is why even as things start to feel more “normal”, Kristeva would wag an admonishing finger at anyone who didn’t don a mask to brave the outdoors, and I’d side with her.

*     *     *

And finally, we asked Natalia about her future plans:

I’ll be returning to Glendon in September to finish up my certificate in Communications. I’m also the project manager at Lunik, our student-run Cooperative on campus. As for what I’d like to do in the future academically-speaking, that really is the million-dollar question! My exhausted student answer would be “nothing!!”, but I entered into my BA with the hopes of one day becoming an English professor and I still entertain that idea. For now, though, my plan is to teach English in Korea for a couple of years after I graduate (I know, classic English major move, but I’m so excited), and then to re-evaluate if I’d like to get back in the saddle and do a Masters (very likely in Canadian Studies) once I return home to Canada.

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