Marie Chatlain

I am a second-year PhD student whose research is situated at the intersection between genre and disability. In particular, I examine utopian and dystopian literature from the long nineteenth century. The utopian mode reveals what was desirable in an ideal society and considers who deserves to inhabit it—resulting in visions for the future that hinge on disability inclusion or elimination. I am interested in how disability is entangled with nineteenth century notions of progress and how this affects the ways authors use disability in their constructions of idealized or nightmarish futures. I am also pursuing a collaborative specialization in Book History and Print Culture through which I serve as a BHPC Printing Fellow at the Massey College Bibliography Room. There, I am working on a project that examines and seeks to recreate accessible letterpress printing techniques from the nineteenth century.

List of Publications

Conference Papers:

• "'Over the mountains I come': Disability and the Utopian Journey in H.G. Wells's 'The Country of the Blind.'" Dalhousie Association of Graduate Students in English Conference, Destinations and Departures. 12 August 2022. 
• "The Practice of Living: Reading Radical Resurgence and Relationality in Stephen Graham Jones's Ledfeather." Western Literature Association Conference, Palimpsests and Western Literatures: The Layered Spaces of History, Imagination, and the Future, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 22 October 2022.