Laureanne Willems

PhD Candidate
l.willems@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Science, Health, and Technology Studies
  • Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature

Areas of Interest

  • Autobiography
  • Illness narratives
  • Women's writing
  • Representations of mental health & illness
  • Disability studies

Biography

I am a second-year PhD student and enrolled in the Collaborative Specialization in Women’s Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. In my research, I am interested in how contemporary women writers communicate their experiences of mental ill-health –and the ways in which these intersect with race, gender, sexuality and class – through life writing.

List of Publications

Willems, Laureanne. “Take Up Space/Know Your Place: On the Relationship Between Anorexia and Feminism.” Feminist Bodies, spec. issue, Frame: Journal of Literary Studies 32.2, pp. 87-97.

Cohort

  • 2020-2021