PhD Candidate & Teaching Fellow, McMaster University
Marika Avenel Brown is currently an ABD PhD Candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. She also has an undergraduate specialization in Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality and a graduate specialization in Digital Humanities.
Her dissertation work looks to speculative fiction to trouble the division between natural and unnatural and to posit better future entanglements between human, nonhuman, and more-than-human life and she has written about critical veganism as a mode of speculative possibility.