Braedon Balko received an Honours B. A. with High Distinction from the University of Toronto in 2017 and an M. A. in English from York University in 2019, during which he earned the Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Master’s Scholarship. In 2020, he became a doctoral student in the department of English at York University, and has received two Ontario Graduate Scholarships during his doctoral candidacy.

Braedon’s research interests lay primarily within the field of trans-Atlantic modernism, and he is writing a dissertation entitled “The Modernist Sentence Project” that explores the works of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and Langston Hughes on the level of the sentence. By analyzing the texts of these four modernists through a blend of Marxist literary theory and discourse analysis predicated on a Wittgensteinian understanding of language, his dissertation seeks to uncover the politics and embedded history of the sentence as a distinct formal and linguistic unit, as well as the ideological implications of style and syntactical experimentation.

Email address: braedonbalko@gmail.com