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.
Life writing (diaries and memoir), Contemporary literature, Children's literature, Feminist theory, Writing pedagogy
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 here)
With Stephanie Oliver. “Conversing Refugees: Recognizing Refugee Knowledge in Warsan Shire’s ‘Conversations About Home (at the Deportation Centre).” Conference of the Commonwealth Association for Canadian Literature and Language Studies, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, 9 June 2021.
