Rachel Fernandes is a PhD candidate studying contemporary Canadian literature. Her dissertation focuses on the mixed race Asian Canadian identity in poetry, memoir, and the novel. Her secondary areas of interest include food studies, African American literature, and the digital humanities. As a Teaching Fellow at Queen's in the Fall of 2022, she taught ENGL284, "Marginalized Voices in Can Lit: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality". She also worked as a Research Assistant to Dr. Kristin Moriah from 2020-23, providing assistance in organizing the Black Studies Summer Seminar and supporting work on digitizing the archives of 19th-century Black abolitionist Mary Ann Shadd Cary.
Rachel is currently a 2023-24 Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Black Digital Studies at Pennsylvania State 카지노게임사이트 where she continues to work on digital projects that celebrate and commemorate Black history.
Critical Mixed Race Studies, Contemporary Literature, Canadian Literature, North American Literature, Critical Race Theory.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
카지노 게임 컬렉션Listening to Loving: Mildred Loving and the Case for Quiet Activism카지노 게임 컬렉션. Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, Vol. 3, Issue 3, Fall 2022, 288-308, .
Book Chapters
[Forthcoming]카지노 게임 컬렉션Appetites and Identity: Mixed Race Identity Construction Through Food and Sex in Carmit Delman카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노 게임 컬렉션Footnote카지노 게임 컬렉션카지노 게임 컬렉션. Significant Food in American Literature, edited by Jeff Birkenstein and Robert Hauhart, 카지노게임사이트 of Georgia Press, 2024.
Selected Book Reviews
카지노 게임 컬렉션The Pull of the North카지노 게임 컬렉션: A Review of Tainna by Norma Dunning and White Resin by Audrée Wilhelmy. Canadian Literature, August, 2022, .
"Flow and Flight카지노 게임 컬렉션: A Review of Northern Light by Kazim Ali and Flight from Grace by Richard Pope, Canadian Literature, June 2022,
카지노 게임 컬렉션All the Feels카지노 게임 컬렉션: A Review of Feeling it All, Edited by Marie Carrière, Ursula Mathis-Moser, and Kit Dobson, Canadian Literature, October 2021, .
My dissertation explores representations of Asian mixed race identity in memoir, poetry, and the novel.
