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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nPilar Cuder-Dom\u00ednguez<\/strong>\u00a0 Pilar Cuder-Dom\u00ednguez is a Professor of English at the University of Huelva (Spain). Her research interests are the literary representations of intersections of gender, genre, nation, and race. She is the author of three books and editor of eight collections of essays. Her latest publications have discussed the work of writers of Black and Asian ancestry in Canada, drawing from critical race studies and postcolonial and feminist theories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n She has also co-edited a Special Issue on \u201cCultures of Empathy\u201d for the European Journal of English Studies<\/em> available at https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/neje20\/28\/1?nav=tocList<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information, please visit https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7713-9225<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Email: picuder@uhu.es<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Anna Czarnowus<\/strong> Anna Czarnowus is Associate Professor at the University of Silesia, Katowice (Poland). She has published widely on medievalisms. She co-edited (with M. J. Toswell) Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood <\/em>(D.S Brewer 2020). Her interest in Canadian medievalism is about how the European Middle Ages influenced the shaping of the settler culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Furthermore, she has worked on medievalism in fantasy fiction, and also in New Zealand and Eastern Europe. She co-edited (with Carolyne Larrington) Memory and Medievalism in George R.R. Martin and Game of Thrones: The Keeper of All Our Memories <\/em>(Bloomsbury 2022), (with Janet M. Wilson) New Zealand Medievalism: Reframing the Medieval <\/em>(Routledge 2024), and (with Laurel Ryan) Medievalism and Slavic Popular Culture <\/em>(Arc Humanities 2025). Her most recent chapter, Arthur in Central and Eastern Europe<\/em>, is forthcoming in The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture<\/em>, edited by Andrew Lynch and Raluca Radulescu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Email: anna.czarnowus@us.edu.pl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Paul Halferty<\/strong> J. Paul Halferty is an Assistant Professor in Drama Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland, where he also serves as Director of the UCD Dobbin Centre for Canadian Studies and Director of the Master\u2019s in Theatre Practice, which is co-convened with The Gaiety School of Acting, Ireland\u2019s National Theatre School. A theatre historian and queer theatre and performance studies scholar, his research explores the intersection of theatre and identity\u2014primarily sexual, gender, national, and racial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before returning to graduate school, Dr. Halferty taught acting at the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts and worked as Assistant Producer at da da kamera<\/em> and the Six Stages Festival in Toronto. He has taught at 快播视频, the University of Toronto, and Brock University, primarily in the areas of theatre history, acting, and gender and sexual diversity studies. He is co-editor, with Dr. Cathy Leeney, of Analysing Gender in Performance<\/em> (Palgrave, 2022), and his scholarly work has been published in Theatre Research in Canada<\/em>, Canadian Theatre Review<\/em>, and the anthology Queer Theatre in Canada<\/em>. He is also Associate Editor and contributor to TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault: An Unreasonable Body of Work<\/em> (Intellect, 2012).<\/p>\n\n\n\n He is currently completing a monograph, Political Stages: Toronto Gay Theatre, 1967\u20131985<\/em>, forthcoming from McGill\u2013Queen\u2019s University Press in 2026. From 2007 to 2013, he served on the board of directors of Toronto\u2019s Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, acting as its president from 2008 to 2012. He currently serves on the editorial board of Theatre Research in Canada\/ Recherches th\u00e9\u00e2trales au Canada<\/em> and is a board trustee for Associate for Canadian Studies in Ireland, the Ireland Canada University Foundation, and the Gaiety School of Acting. In addition to his academic research, he also works as a dramaturge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Email: <\/strong>paul.halferty@ucd.ie<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tomasz Soroka<\/strong> Tomasz Soroka, Ph.D., is a political scientist, a Canadian studies scholar, and an assistant professor at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, PL. He earned his doctoral degree in humanities (political science) in 2010. His publications cover various topics related to the political, legal, and cultural evolution of Canada. Currently, in his research, he focuses on Canada\u2019s language policies and laws. He has been an awardee of grants and scholarships offered by the International Council of Canadian Studies and Polish academic institutions. As a visiting scholar, he has conducted research at Canadian universities: the University of Ottawa, University of Toronto, McGill University, Carleton University, and 快播视频. Thanks to the Erasmus+ and CEEPUS mobility programs, he has lectured at the universities of Catania, Veliko Tarnovo, Zadar, Maribor, and Coimbra. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Email: <\/strong>tomasz.soroka@uj.edu.pl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Paul Thomas<\/strong> Paul Thomas is a PhD student in the geography department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His dissertation research follows the migration trajectories of Indian students in Canada. His PhD dissertation is built on his 3.5-year-long research at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India, where he studied the migration-development-inequality nexus in Kerala, India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Email: <\/strong>pthomas22@wisc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n (Click on link for pdf file)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
School of Humanities, University of Huelva (Spain), 2025-26 Robarts Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Drama Studies, University College Dublin\/ Director, UCD Dobbin Centre for Canadian Studies<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Geography, University of Wisconsin- Madison<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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