Isabelle Zhu

PhD Candidate
isabelle.zhu@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Diasporic, Postcolonial, and Transnational Literature
  • The Novel
  • Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature

Biography

My dissertation focuses on how forms of roleplaying shape subjectivity in diasporic British and American Literature. My latest chapter is on Angie Cruz’s Dominicana, in which I look at how roleplaying shuttles between forms of subjugation and visions of better worlds.

Cohort

  • 2020-2021