Charissa Chan

PhD Candidate
charissa.chan@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Late Medieval Literature
  • Literary and Critical Theory

Areas of Interest

  • Affect Theory

Biography

Charissa Chan received her BA Honours and a Masters in English at the University of Toronto, where she is currently pursuing her PhD studies. Her work explores the operations of affect within courtly discourses of love in Chaucer’s poetry.

Selected Awards and Accolades

  • 2019/2020 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
  • 2018/2019 University of Toronto Fellowship (renewed 2019/2020)
  • 2018/2019 Ontario Graduate Scholarship 
  • 2016/2017 Ontario Graduate Scholarship 
  • 2016 V. A. De Luca Memorial Fellowship
  • 2015 The William McCauley Scholarship
  • 2014 The Class of 1945 Scholarship
  • 2013 The Alastair McKinnon Scholarship

Cohort

  • 2018-2019