Walter Rafael Villanueva

PhD Candidate
walter.villanueva@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Asian Canadian Literature
  • Canadian Literature
  • Critical Race Studies
  • Diasporic, Postcolonial, and Transnational Literature
  • Disability Studies
  • Literary and Critical Theory
  • Science, Health, and Technology Studies
  • Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature

Areas of Interest

  • Post-WWII Canadian Literature
  • Critical Disability Studies
  • Mad Studies
  • History of Psychiatry in Canada
  • Health and Medical Humanities
  • Asian Canadian Literature
  • Asian North American Studies
  • Pilipinx Studies

Biography

Walter Rafael Villanueva is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and holds research positions at the Centre for Global Disability Studies and Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. His current research explores Asian Canadian narratives of madness using a framework indebted to critical disability studies and Mad studies.

List of Publications

  • “The Invisible Labour of Informal Care: Parentified, Gendered, and Racialized Caregiving in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant.” Canadian Literature, no. 248, Summer 2022, pp. 30-51.
  • “UBC (Un)Accountable: On Public Shaming, CanLit, and the Steven Galloway Controversy.” Canada Watch, Spring 2022, pp. 25-26.

Cohort

  • 2019-2020