Robyn Carruthers, PhD in English Language & Literature, supervised by Drs Asha Varadharajan & Yael Schlilk

Grad Chat - Queen's School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs

Jul 07 2020 | 00:30:24

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Show Notes

Topic: Foreign Relations: Contemporary Travel Writing and the Unsettling Poetics of Foreign Space

Overview: Robyn studies contemporary travel writing and how it shapes our ideas about what it means for a person, place, or thing to be ‘foreign’ in the world today.

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