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Kayla PENTELIUK

Kayla PENTELIUK
Contact Information
Email address: 
kayla.penteliuk [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Address: 

Arts Building
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5
Canada

Group: 
Doctoral Students
Stream: 
Literature
Specialization by geographical area: 
Great Britain
Specialization by time period: 
19th-Century
Victorian
20th-Century
Area(s): 
Fiction
Poetry & Poetics
History & Theory of the Novel
Identity & Representation
Areas of interest: 

Victorian literature; the long nineteenth century; middlebrow; comedy; British literature; witchcraft and the occult; disability studies; Sylvia Townsend Warner; the Bront毛 sisters

Biography: 

Kayla Penteliuk is a Ph.D. candidate and course lecturer in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature at 91社区 in Montr茅al, Quebec. Her work has appeared in the Literary Review of Canada and Tulsa Studies in Women鈥檚 Literature. She is writing her dissertation on comedic subgenres and deviant female identities (witches, spinsters, Bohemians, and more) in women-authored British middlebrow novels.

Degree(s): 

Ph.D., 91社区 (exp. 2024)
M.A., University of Saskatchewan, 2020
B.A. (Hons), University of Saskatchewan, 2018

Selected publications: 

Articles

鈥淧ut Away in a Tin Box for Posterity鈥: Curation, Collaboration, and Reclamation in the Sylvia Townsend Warner Archives.鈥 Tulsa Studies in Women鈥檚 Literature (fall 2024)

鈥溾楥ome with Me, Sweetest Sister鈥: Unravelling the Enigma of Sacred Sisterhood in Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and 鈥淕oblin Market鈥 by Christina Rossetti.鈥 University of Saskatchewan Research Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, 2018.

Reviews and Public Scholarship

鈥淲here There鈥檚 Smoke: City in Flames by Tomas Hachard.鈥 Literary Review of Canada, vol. 31, no. 9, November 2023.

鈥淢补濒别蹿颈肠别苍肠别: The Possession of Barbe Hallay: Diabolical Arts and Daily Life in Early Canada by Mairi Cowan.鈥 Literary Review of Canada, vol. 31, no. 3, April 2023.

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • SSHRC Joseph Armand-Bombardier Canada Graduate Doctoral Scholarship, 2020-2023
  • SSHRC Joseph Armand-Bombardier Canada Graduate Masters Scholarship, 2018-2020
  • The Hinz/Teunissen Memorial Scholarship, 2019
  • The Susan Willigar Prize in English, 2018
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