Kiera Obbard

Kiera Obbard serves as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing, University of Guelph, with additional affiliations as a fellow at The Humanities Interdisciplinary Collaboration (THINC) Lab and editorial board member for the Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies and WaterHill Publishing.

Her academic credentials include:

• M.A. in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory from McMaster University
• Honours B.A. in English and Communication from the University of Ottawa

Her research critically examines how Instagram-disseminated poetry creates new literary genres that disrupt traditional publishing models and transform reader engagement in digital contexts, bridging contemporary Canadian poetry, social media dynamics, and digital humanities methodologies. This work challenges institutional publishing frameworks while exploring emergent reader-text relationships in algorithmically mediated environments.

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Student advising activities and research grant information were not referenced in available texts.

She actively contributes to the THINC Lab's interdisciplinary humanities initiatives, fostering collaborative digital scholarship projects across institutional boundaries.