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Education:

• BAH (Guelph)
• MA (McMaster)
• PhD (York)

Remarks:
My areas of teaching and research are 20^th and 21^st century literature and cultural production with a particular emphasis on texts that deal with issues of gender, race, and migration. I am a trained postcolonialist, which is a core aspect of my teaching interests, and I am cross-appointed in the Gender and Women鈥檚 Studies program. My research focuses on literature about the children of immigrants, 鈥渢he second generation,鈥� across national and ethnic lines. I am particularly interested in how second generation literature mobilizes the conventions of coming of age narratives, the relationship between myth, memory and history, and the representation of intergenerational and intragenerational relationships to produce future-facing stories that suggest hope and possibility in trying times.

Selected Articles:

• 鈥淒aughter Lessons.鈥� Canadian Literature 254, 2024, pp. 156-159.
• 鈥溾�業 Was Certain I Saw My Future in Him鈥�: Coming into Intergenerational Empathy and Escape in l锚 thi diem thuy鈥檚 The Gangster We Are All Looking For.鈥� Feminist Encounters vol. 6 no. 2, article 26, 2022, pp. 1-11.
• 鈥淔acing the Future Through Myth in David Chariandy鈥檚 Soucouyant.鈥� Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy. Ed. Rodolphe Solbiac. Lexington Press, 2021, pp. 53-73.
• 鈥淗idden Histories and Second Generation Struggles in David Chariandy鈥檚 Soucouyant.鈥� Journal of Commonwealth Literature vol. 57 no. 3, 2022 (e-published in 2020), pp. 627-640. doi:.

Awards & Distinctions

• The Belong Fellowship, 2020, for the Daughters of Immigrants Symposium

Scholars in the Media

• 鈥淎gainst! An interview with Dr. Asha Jeffers by Dr. Zachery Williams.鈥� New Books Network. July 29, 2025.