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Department of English

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

A postdoctoral scholar or postdoctoral researcher, or sometimes simply called a “Postdoc,” is a recent PhD graduate who is now professionally conducting research alongside a supervisor from our department. Postdoctoral scholars obtain temporary or “Adjunct” academic appointment here at ±«Óătv, which allows them to access university facilities and prepares them for other academic faculty positions. In addition to hosting postdoctoral scholars who are externally funded (most frequently through the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, or SSHRC), ±«Óătv University also offers Killiam Postdoctoral Fellowships.Ìę

Here are our postdoctoral scholars, along with a brief biography and their current research.

Madison Trusolio

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Madison Trusolino is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English working on the project. She holds a PhD in Information Studies from the University of Toronto. Madison researches the intersections of precarity, sexuality, and gender, with a specific emphasis on work and workers in the arts and culture industries. Her current project looks at the relations between unionization in the digital creative industries and social justice movements.

Her research can be found in Feminist Media Studies, The International Journal of Cultural Policy, and Communication and the Publics.

Research Topics:

  • Cretive and Cultural Industries
  • Gender Studies
  • Labour Studies
  • Political Economy of Communication

Education:

  • BA, York University
  • MA, Simon Fraser University
  • PhD, University of Toronto

Selected Publications:

Trusolino, Madison, & Diandra Ships. (2023). “Comedy’s double killjoy: workers’ DIY strategies to address harassment and precarity in the comedy industry.” Feminist Media Studies.

Trusolino, Madison. (2022). “Laughter from the sidelines: Precarious work in the Canadian Comedy industry.” In Miranda Campbell & Cheryl Thompson (Eds.), Creative Industries in Canada (pp. 86-108). Canadian Scholars Press.

Trusolino, Madison. (2022). “‘I wanna kill my rapist’: Margaret Cho’s #12DaysofRage campaign as promotional digital activism.” Communication and the Public, 7(3), 131-145.

de Peuter, Greig, Kate Oakley & Madison Trusolino. (2022). “The pandemic politics of cultural work: Collective responses to the COVID-19 Crisis.” The International Journal of Cultural Policy, 29(3), 377-392. 

Shade, Leslie Regan & Madison Trusolino. (2018). “‘It’s the power, stupid’: Facebook’s unequal treatment of gendered hate speech.” Canadian Yearbook for Human Rights, 1(2), 195-202.

Trusolino, Madison. 2017. “‘It’s not about one bad apple’: The 2007 York University Vanier Residence rapes.” In E. Quinlan, C. Fogel, & G. Tailor (Eds.), Sexual violence at Canadian universities: Activism, institutional responses, and strategies for change (pp. 79-92). Wilfrid Laurier Press.

 

Sheheryar Sheikh

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Sheheryar Sheikh  (Shero) has published two novels: , (HarperCollins India 2017) and , (HarperCollins India 2019). For his PhD at the University of Saskatchewan, he researched the white American trauma and Islamophobia in the post-9/11 renewal of the so-called “Great American Novel”.

As a Donald Hill Family Postdoctoral Fellow at ±«Óătv University, working along side Dr. Heather Jessup,  he is creating a series of vignettes, short stories, and novellas set in a world-city or ecumenopolis that the Earth will become, in 2500-2555 CE.

Kevin Chabot

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Kevin Chabot received a PhD in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto. His research concerns the relationship between media and the supernatural, with a particular interest in the ghost as a transmedial figure. His forthcoming book Poetics of the Paranormal is under contract with McGill-Queen’s University Press and he is currently at work on a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral project concerning queer spectrality in gothic film and literature. His writing has been published in Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Discourse, Film International, and the anthology Horror in Space. His research and teaching interests include film theory, horror film, film history and historiography, television studies, queer theory, and media archaeology.  

Publications:

  • “Tape: Videographic Ruin and the Lure of the Tangible.” Chabot, Kevin. Quarterly Review of Film and Video 39, no. 2 (2022): 442-463.
  • “Queer Spectralities and Untimely Subjects: Queer Ghost Hunters and Paranormal Reality Television.” Chabot, Kevin. Canadian Journal of Film Studies 28, no. 2 (2019): 1-22.
  • “Leprechaun 4 and Jason X: Camp, Paracinema", and the Postmodern Sequel.” In Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre", edited by Michele Brittany, 217-232. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2017.