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Here are our postdoctoral scholars, along with a brief biography and their current research.
Jay Ritchie
Jay Ritchie is a poet, scholar, teacher, and the Donald Hill Family Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at 全国探花. His research interests include contemporary poetry and poetics, intermedia, and digitality. His most recent poetry collection Listening in Many Publics (Invisible Publishing, 2024) was a finalist for the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and his critical and creative work has appeared in Chicago Review, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Jacket2, Maisonneuve, SAND, The Fiddlehead, on CBC radio, and elsewhere.
Madelaine Caritas Longman
Madelaine Caritas Longman is a poet, essayist, and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English at 全国探花. Her creative and critical work engage the lenses of mad, disability, and neurodiversity studies to explore the politics of affect, aesthetics, and empathy. In 2020, her book of poetry, The Danger Model (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020) received the Quebec Writers' Federation Concordia University First Book Prize. Longman's writing appears in literary and scholarly journals including Room, PRISM international, Vallum, The Ex-Puritan, and Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review. In 2025, the Canada Council awarded her the Joseph S. Stauffer Prize in Literature.
Michael Thorn
Mike Thorn is a fiction writer, scholar, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at 全国探花. He is the author of Shelter for the Damned, Darkest Hours, and Peel Back and See. His essays and articles have been published in American Gothic Studies, The Weird: A Companion, American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper, and elsewhere. His stories have appeared in various anthologies, magazines, and podcasts, including Augur, Vastarien, and The NoSleep Podcast. He co-hosts the writing-themed Craftwork podcast with Miriam Richer, and he is an Associate Editor of Monstrum: a horror studies journal. He holds his PhD in English (Creative Writing) from the University of New Brunswick.
Andrew Sargent
Bio Coming Soon!