Research Associates

As a Master’s candidate in Translation Studies, I am very interested in the sociology of literary translation, focusing on 20th- and 21st-century Argentine literature in translation. I am intrigued by how cultural, social, economic, and political factors shape the circulation and reception of translated works and influence the target culture’s perception of authors, genres, countries and broader regions. This extends to the translated literary landscape of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Argentina, Latin America, the Caribbean.

Keywords: Sociology, Literary Translation, Circulation, Reception, Target Culture.

Vanessa is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Humanities at York University. Her research interests are in the narrative expression of identity within the Caribbean diaspora, her research is still in progress.

Shanique Mothersill is a Jamaican born Black feminist poet, Graduate Teaching Assistant and PhD student in Gender, Feminist & Women’s Studies at York University. She recently completed her second MA in the Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University after completing her first MA in Pan African Studies in African American Studies and a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Women’s and Gender Studies at Syracuse University. In her research, Shanique focuses on theorizing (through poetry) Jamaican women’s aliveness and the ways in which their multiple acts of living help us to further examine and understand gendered and racialized “beingness” and existence in the Caribbean.

Contry(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Jamaica

Keywords: Black women’s neocolonial lived experiences, Jamaican women; Black sexuality; poetry; decolonizing knowledges and Black feminist theory & praxis.

PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies at York University. Marilo holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph (’19) and is a graduate in Acting from Ryerson University (’96). She was the founding artistic director of Alameda Theatre Company and has worked professionally in the theatre and film industry in Canada and the US for the past twenty-five years. Her dissertation research at York University will focus on issues of race and racism within the Canadian theatre context. She is also focusing on the pedagogical work of Cuban American playwright and director Maria Irene Fornes. Her hope is to be able to teach this method of playwriting to Canadian writers.

Countries or Regions of Specialization: Canada, US, Chile, Mexico. Argentina

Keywords: racism, equity in theatre, anti-colonialism, anti-racism, theatre history, Latinx theatre in Canada and the US

Sebastián Oreamuno is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Dance at York University. With a focus on cueca, the Chilean national dance, his research explores the relationship between movement and memory, or the memory/memorial dimension of the inscription of gesture. This investigation inquires how the repetition of gestures, postures and movements are embodied and remembered, and how these embodied memories might reiterate social norms and ways of moving in the world. Sebastián is also interested in the sites in which these inscriptions of gestures, and the transference of embodied memory, take place because cueca is a social and popular dance engaged for diverse reasons such as celebration, protest, entertainment, performance art, devotion, and to demonstrate patriotism, to name a few. Thus, cueca is performed both in public and private spaces, yet rarely on the proscenium stage.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Chile, Chilean/Latin American Diasporic Communities

Keywords: dance, music, memory, autoethnography, embodiment, affect

Whitney-Ann Patrick is an MA student at York University, currently pursuing a graduate program in Communication and Culture. Her research interests focus on the plight of the Afro-Trinidadian diaspora within Canada, cultural markers of identity and community building. More specifically, she aims to examine how members of diasporic communities who feel “unhomed” utilize digital spaces to form an international connection to home, cultures and traditions. Moreover, how diasporic communities use this medium to define their notion of home, their sense of belonging and what they envision as necessary to be a part of a larger national identity and community. Her research will employ diaspora studies and postcolonial studies and adopt a Black feminist epistemology.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Trinidad & Tobago, Canada.

Keywords: Caribbean, Identity, Diaspora, Postcoloniality.

He is a Research Associate of CERLAC (The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean – York University), a Graduate Assistant with the Refugee Research Network (a SSHRC funded project of York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies), and adjunct professor in the Community Worker Program at George Brown College. William
 has worked as an international human rights advocate in Mexico, Colombia, Canada and Palestine has held coordination roles with Christian Peacemaker Teams, the Canadian Council for International Cooperation, and CERLAC, and is a member of the oversight committee of Peace Brigades International’s Mexico Project.   A former Rotary Peace Fellow, he holds a masters degree in International Relations from Universidad del Salvador (Argentina). Present research considers human rights violations of sexual/gender minorities in contexts marked by organized violence and impunity with a particular focus on Guerrero, Mexico.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Mexico, Colombia

Keywords: Violence, impunity, LGBT, Queer

Carlos Pérez Márquez holds a BA in Politics and Public Administration, as well as studies in International Trade Negotiations, both from El Colegio de México. He is currently pursuing an MA in Political Science at York University.

In the context of the current regional nearshoring trend, his research focus is on analyzing how different levels of government coordinate to successfully implement investment attraction policies in Mexico. He is also interested in researching political systems, legislative behavior, federalism, political participation and participatory democracy.

Carlos has actively participated in research groups focused on regional studies. He was involved in the Research & Development project “Approximation to the New Paradigms of International Society: Regions, Actors, Structures, and Institutions” at Universidad La Salle – Mexico City, as well as the project “Studies on Latin America and the Caribbean (ESALC)” at El Colegio de México.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Mexico, Argentina and Brazil

Keywords: Participatory democracy, nearshoring, federalism.