Chancellor Jackman Graduate Fellow
Elizabet is a passionate and dedicated scholar, with aspirations of continuing her academic career in interdisciplinary literary and media studies. Her research interests lie in exploring the relationship between the body and the spaces it inhabits along with the way the human and the monstrous are intertwined. Elizabet is also involved in student life and community, having previously held positions as Associate Editor for the IDIOM English Undergraduate Journal and a staff writer for the UC Gargoyle, and currently acting on the English Student Union, the Toronto Poetry Society, and the Editor-in-Chief of The Foolscap Journal.
Fellowship Project: Does AI Dream of Synthetic Touch? Human and Non-Human Relationships in Dystopian Literature and Cinema
In a posthumanist dystopia, the human body turns into something almost unrecognizable, while the monstrous body becomes uncannily recognizable. The navigation of interpersonal relationships in such a society is thus complicated both by blurring boundaries between the accepted and the abjected – the Other – and by the imbalanced power dynamics between the human and non-human. Through studying these relations within dystopian media, this project aims to find what it means to recognize and reject humanity, to have and hold a human body, and to perform intimacy when it is nearly impossible to distinguish between what is human and what is not. Ultimately, this research explores the future of the human body, the monster, and connection.