for CV and information related to my work in molecular biology, please see here and here.

Degrees

PhD candidate in English Literature, Concordia University, Montréal (2019 – )

MA (English Literature and Creative Writing-Poetry; Concordia University, Montréal)

BA (Honours English Literature, Human Rights Minor; Concordia University, Montréal)

PhD (Molecular Biology; University of Edinburgh, U.K.)

BSc/MSc (Biology/Genetics and Biochemistry; University of Vienna, Austria)

Research interests

Theories of self and subjectivity; transcendental philosophy; mind-body dualism (or neuro/biological subject-self); interoception & cognition; autopoiesis & allostasis, epigenesis & plasticity; imagination & communicability; poetics – Romantic to Contemporary; literature & science.

Conference presentations and seminars (literature)

“To speak (in) silence: Wahn and Imagination in Georg Trakl’s Song of the Recluse.” Conference Paper, “Untimely Imagination“, conference organized by Nathan Brown and Petar Milat, MaMa Multimedia Center, June 2023, Zagreb, Croatia

“Epigenesis and Plasticity in Mina Loy’s Parturition Or Epigenesis, Plasticity and the rise of the Transcendental Body”, Occasional Talks series, Center for Expanded Poetics, Concordia University, April 2023 Montréal, Canada

“Ambiguity of the Encounter: The Romantic Fragment as Bloom-space of Recursive Being.” Conference Paper, SAGE Graduate Student Colloquium “New (Ab)Normal: Elements, Adaptations, and Interruptions”, March 2023, Montréal, Canada

“Between Totality: Erroneous Encounters in Novalis’s Fragments.” Conference Paper, ‘The Poetics of the Fragment: Romantic, Modernist, Contemporary‘, Graduate Conference, Centre for Expanded Poetics, June 2021, Montréal, Canada

“De-Naturing Silence: Gender Fluidity in Le Roman de Silence.” Conference Paper, 20th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies for Graduate Students, Aug. 2021, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.

“The Failure of Affective Allostasis in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood.” Conference Paper, Aesthetics of Anxiety, English Graduate Conference, Concordia University, March 2020; Montréal, Canada (conference cancelled)

“Multiplicities of the Human Condition: Rhizomatic Articulations in Montaigne’s Essais.” ConferencePaper, Classifications, English Graduate Conference, Department of English, Toronto University, April 2018, Toronto, Canada

Poetry Readings

Emerging Writers Reading Series,”Big on Bloor” Festival, Toronto, Canada, July 20, 2024

Conference and event organization (literature)

Symposium on Expanded Dialogues: “Self/Uncertainties, Interdisciplinary Reading and Discussion Series, co-organized with Fintan Neylan, in collaboration with 4TH Space and the Center for Expanded Poetics, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada (virtual):

• Expanded Dialogues 01: Uncertain Environs, Uncertain Selves, April 2021
• Expanded Dialogues 02: Fractured Communication, Fragmented Society, May 2021
• Expanded Dialogues 03: Molecular Selves, In/Organic Humanity, June 2021

Teaching and seminars (literature & writing)

Friedrich Hölderlin, Poetry and Prose, Reading seminar, Center for Expanded Poetics, Concordia University, Montréal

ENGL341 Modern Fiction, Concordia University, Montréal

ENGL250 Forms of Popular Writing, Concordia University, Montréal

ENGL210 Introduction into Essay Writing, Concordia University, Montréal

Editorial work (literature)

Poetry editor, Headlight Anthology, 2017-19