President
Jesse Arsenault
Associate Professor, Department of English
Concordia University
jesse.arseneault@concordia.ca
Research areas: African literature, animal studies, posthumanism, postcolonial studies, queer theory, and cultural studies
Vice President
Azza Harras
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Culture, and Communication
Royal Military Collage
azza.harass@rmc-cmr.ca
Research areas: Cultural studies, postcolonialism, Middle Eastern studies, and World literature
Executive Officer
Coplen Rose
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Acadia University
Research areas: African drama and literature, geography and digital mapping, trauma studies, popular culture, and is currently working on a book chapter about postcolonial science fiction and South African drama
Treasurer
Prabhjot Parmar
Associate Professor, Department of English
University of the Fraser Valley – Abbotsford Campus
Research areas: Postcolonial literatures and theory, South Asian literature and cinema, migration and diaspora studies, multicultural Britain and Canada, women’s studies, memory and history, world war and colonial soldiers, and modern British fiction
Early Career 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
Contract Academic Representative
Jason Sandhar
Department of English and Writing Studies
University of Western Ontario
Research areas: Indian literature, postcolonial studies, postcolonial ecocriticism, critical animal studies
Chimo Editor
Stephanie Oliver
Associate Professor, Department of Fine Arts and Humanities
University of Alberta – Augustana Campus
Research areas: Canadian literature and settler colonialism, diaspora and postcolonial studies, the senses, energy humanities, affect, and environment
Communications Officer
Arshad Said Khan
PhD Candidate and Assistant Lecturer, Department of English and Film Studies
University of Alberta
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
Alexander Sarra-Davis
PhD Candidate & Course Instructor, Department of EnglishUniversity of Toronto
Research areas: postcolonial theory, narratology, ethics of representation, Canadian literature, American literature, Australian literature, African literature, cultural studies, and poetry
Susan Rajendran
PhD Candidate, Department of Humanities
York University
Research areas: Sri-Lankan modernist literature, postcolonial writing, nationalism and identity, and Buddhist humanism