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Emmarie Brown

21eab13@queensu.ca

People Directory Affiliation Category
Graduate Students

Biography

Emmarie Brown is a PhD student in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing. Her current research areas include life writing (especially diary and memoir) and research-creation methodologies.

Research Interests

Life writing (diaries and memoir), Contemporary literature, Children's literature, Feminist theory, Writing pedagogy

Selected Publications

Reviews

Review of The School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism, by David Aitchison. International Research in Children's Literature, vol. 16, no. 2, 2023, pp. 227–29.

Conference Presentations

“No Spectacle: Incoherent Narrative Space in Rawi Hage’s Cockroach.” Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures, York University, 30 May 2023.

“Displacing Context: Relating to Refugees in Warsan Shire’s ‘Home.’” Canadian Association of Postcolonial Studies, York University, 28 May 2023.

“Student Keynote Conversation: Accommodation and Proactive Design.” Festival of Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, 5 May 2022. (See summative report on the talk )

With Stephanie Oliver. “Conversing Refugees: Recognizing Refugee Knowledge in Warsan Shire’s ‘Conversations ɫƵ Home (at the Deportation Centre).” Conference of the Commonwealth Association for Canadian Literature and Language Studies, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, 9 June 2021.

Awards and Recognition

  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship, ɫƵ (2024)
  • SSHRC Canadian Graduate Scholarship - Master's, ɫƵ (2022-2023)
  • Roger S. Smith Undergraduate Student Research Award, University of Alberta - Augustana (2021)
  • Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award, University of Alberta - Augustana (2021)
  • Dr. Velma Gooch Memorial Scholarship in English Literature , University of Alberta - Augustana (2020-2021)
  • Don Mazankowski Summer Research Assistantship Award, University of Alberta - Augustana (2020)
  • The Ed Friesen Scholarship in English, University of Alberta - Augustana (2019)
  • Erik and Gunvor Mygind Dean’s Entrance Citation, University of Alberta - Augustana (2018-2022)

Graduate Supervision

Jane Tolmie