President
Azza Harras
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Culture and Communication
Royal Military College of Canada
azza.harass@rmc.ca
My research centers on world literature, Middle Eastern, Palestinian, postcolonial and cultural studies, with a focus on how cultural and political narratives are represented and contested in various media. My critical works include my first monograph Theatre and the Israel Palestine Conflict: Identity, Resistance and Contested Narrative (Bloomsbury, February 2025), which explores the interplay of identity and resistance within theatrical depictions of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. I am currently working on my second monograph, Unveiling Narrative: Exploring Ottoman Empire and Caliphate Portrayal in Arabic and Turkish Visual Culture, contracted with Palgrave Macmillan. It investigates the legacy of the Ottoman Empire in contemporary cultural and visual media.
Vice President
Prabhjot Parmar
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Fraser Valley,
Abbotsford campus
Research areas: Postcolonial literatures and theory, South Asian Literature and cinema, migration and diaspora studies, multicultural Britain and Canada, women studies, memory and history, world war and colonial soldiers, and modern British fiction.
Executive Officer
Jason Sandhar
Assistant Professor of Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Global Literatures, Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor.
Dr. Sandhar has published critical essays in Interventions, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and the edited collection Postcolonial Animalities (Routledge 2020). His forthcoming book, Indian Literature Across Species, is under contract with Routledge.
Contract Academic Representative
Anindo Hazra
Sessional Faculty,
Department of English | Department of Humanities
York University
Research areas: India, South Asia, South Asian diaspora, queer literature, queer theory, postcolonial theory and literature, deconstruction, Human Rights and the Arts
Early Career Representative
Coplen Rose
Chimo Editor
Stephanie Oliver
Associate Professor, Department of Fine Arts and Humanities
University of Alberta – Augustana CampusResearch areas: Canadian literature and settler colonialism, diaspora and postcolonial studies, the senses, energy humanities, affect, and environment
Communications Officer
Arshad Said Khan
Assistant Lecturer, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta
My research interests are citizenship studies, transgender studies, and South Asian queer and trans literature and media. My PhD dissertation examined literary and cinematic representations of the Hijra (a South Asia specific subaltern transfeminine community) subject within the framework of Indian nationalist ideologies and practices of citizenship.
EDID Representative
Aruna Srivastava
Associate Professor, Department of English
University of Calgary
Research areas: Indigeneity, critical pedagogy, critical race theory, disability studies, Feminist theory, postcolonial and diasporic literature and theory, theories of subjectivity and identity, trauma, and animal studies
Graduate Student Representatives
Linzy Corridon
Linzey Corridon is a writer, Vanier Canada Scholar, and PhD candidate in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. His critical and creative research can be found in, among other venues, Canada and Beyond, Wasafiri, sx salon, Journal of West Indian Literature, and more. Born and raised in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, he resides in Canada. West of West Indian (Mawenzi 2024) is his debut book-length project.
Susan Rajendran
PhD Candidate, Department of Humanities
York University
Research areas: Sri-Lankan modernist literature, postcolonial writing, nationalism and identity, and Buddhist humanism
