Hi there! I’m Kirsten Bussière. I am currently completing my MA in English and Digital Humanities  at Carleton University and I will be attending the University of Ottawa in the fall for my PhD in English. My current research pertains to utopian nostalgia and collective memory in contemporary post-apocalyptic fiction. Focusing on the geographies o…[Read more]

Hello! I’m Sara Santos and I’m a 3rd year PhD student – also in the English Department at Stony Brook. My work focuses on biopolitics, posthumanism and ecocriticism in contemporary literature. My dissertation will look at trajectories of becoming non/posthuman in neoliberal spaces of security – basically, I just want an excuse to write about…[Read more]

Hello! My name is Caity Swanson, and I’m a Ph.D. candidate also in the English Department at Stony Brook. My dissertation focuses on borders, security, and the War on Terror in contemporary US literature. I’m new to Humanities Commons, so I’m excited to learn more about the platform. I’m hoping that through this summer camp I’ll get a better se…[Read more]