Find Academic Supervisors

Natasha Vashisht serves as a Sessional Lecturer II in the Department of English and Drama at the University of Toronto Mississauga, teaching diverse courses including African and Caribbean Theatre, Magical Realism, Drama of the Global South, Medieval Drama, World Drama, Caribbean Literature, and specialized seminars on Revolutionary Humour in Postcolonial Drama. Her academic profile centers on postcolonial and decolonial frameworks with a geographic focus on the Global South, emphasizing resistance narratives across theatrical and literary traditions. Her research spans Literature of the Global South, Postcolonial drama, subaltern studies, and decolonial methodologies, with concentrated expertise in African, Caribbean, and Latin American drama. She investigates theatres of resistance in conflict zones, humor as political subversion, and transnational identity formation in diasporic contexts. This interdisciplinary approach connects historical literary analysis with contemporary sociopolitical critique, particularly examining how marginalized communities weaponize performance and narrative against oppressive structures. Vashisht's publication trajectory reveals consistent scholarly engagement with resistance aesthetics since 2002. Her recent work (2021-2023) analyzes power deconstruction in African-Caribbean theatre, Gandhian social justice models, and diasporic Indian English writing documentation. Earlier scholarship explores political farce in Dario Fo's works, Shakespearean adaptations across global contexts, and psychological dimensions in dystopian literature. Collectively, her research demonstrates a methodological bridge between classical textual analysis and urgent political discourse, with recurring motifs of subversion, identity negotiation, and cultural resilience emerging across temporal and geographic boundaries.

• Literature of the Global South
• Postcolonial drama
• Subaltern studies
• +9 more

PD Dr. Carolin Kosuch is a Privatdozent representing the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at Georg-August University of Göttingen since Winter Semester 2023/24, following the passing of Prof. Dr. Rebekka Habermas. She holds a habilitation from the Philosophy Faculty of Göttingen (July 2023) and serves as Associate Director of the International Society for Historians of Atheism, Secularism, and Humanism (ISHASH), while co-editing the journal Secular Studies. Her academic journey includes research positions at the Simon-Dubnow-Institute in Leipzig, the German Historical Institute in Rome, and TU Braunschweig. Her research traverses European cultural history of the 19th-20th centuries with specialized focus on modern Jewish history, religious nonconformism, and secularism. Kosuch's scholarly output reveals a consistent trajectory examining how secular worldviews manifested in urban spaces, death practices, and intellectual networks across Europe. Her monograph Die Abschaffung des Todes: Säkularistische Ewigkeiten vom 18. bis ins 21. Jahrhundert (2024) represents a culmination of her longstanding interest in secular approaches to mortality, while her earlier work Missratene Söhne. Anarchismus und Sprachkritik im Fin de Siècle (2015) established her expertise in radical intellectual history. Analysis of her 15 most recent publications shows remarkable thematic coherence across diverse publication venues, with consistent exploration of secular alternatives to religious frameworks in urban planning, death rituals, gender performance, and intellectual networks. Her scholarship frequently employs transnational and comparative methodologies, examining connections between German, Italian, and broader European contexts. Recent work demonstrates increasing engagement with material culture approaches to secularism while maintaining strong textual analysis foundations. Doctoral Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (2010-2013) Fellow, KFG 'Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations', University of Erfurt (2023) Upcoming Fellowship, Institute for the History of German Jews, Hamburg (2025) Kosuch has supervised over 30 bachelor's, master's, and doctoral theses on topics spanning Jewish history, secularism, urban history, and gender studies. Her teaching portfolio includes innovative courses on socialist kitchens, food history, nonreligion, and city utopias. She participates in significant collaborative projects including the Göttingen Colonial Exhibition and maintains active membership in the Working Group for Recent Italian History and German Historical Association. Her upcoming research continues to explore intersections of urban spaces, secular practices, and Jewish intellectual history, with particular attention to death rituals and material culture approaches to nonreligion.

• European Cultural History
• Modern Jewish History
• History of Religion
• +5 more

Dr. Edward Mussawir serves as Senior Lecturer at Griffith Law School, Griffith University, and was a Member of the Law Futures Centre (2011-2024). His academic profile centers on critical jurisprudence, with distinctive contributions to animal legal personhood, Deleuzian legal theory, and Roman law continuities. As Managing Editor of the Griffith Law Review since 2012, he shapes legal scholarship discourse while actively supervising doctoral research. His educational foundation includes: Bachelor of Laws with Honours (University of Melbourne, 2003) Master of Laws (University of Melbourne, 2005) Doctor of Philosophy (University of Melbourne, 2009) Bachelor of Science (University of Melbourne, 2003) Dr. Mussawir's research interrogates juridical boundaries through three interconnected strands: (1) animal legal personhood (exemplified by his 2024 monograph Creatures of Jurisprudence analyzing bears/bees as 'juridical species'), (2) Deleuze-inspired an-archic jurisprudence challenging state-centric legal order, and (3) spatial justice frameworks derived from Kafka and Roman law. His work consistently bridges historical analysis with contemporary legal theory to expose anthropocentrism in legal systems. Analysis of his 2021-2025 publications reveals accelerating impact in animal law and Deleuze studies, with 2025 works extending his 'juridical species' concept to human rights theory. The 2024 book generated significant scholarly engagement (evidenced by Mendeley readership and Wikipedia references), while earlier Roman law analyses (2017-2022) established methodological foundations for his current projects. Dr. Mussawir maintains active doctoral supervision as Principal Supervisor for two candidates exploring Kelsenian international law and phenomenological jurisprudence, building on his completed supervision of Woolaston's human-wildlife conflict thesis. His 2013-2014 Griffith University grant on Savigny/Thomas demonstrates sustained interest in jurisprudential lineages. As Managing Editor of the Griffith Law Review , he provides crucial publication pathways for emerging legal scholarship while advancing his research agenda through editorial curation.

• Jurisprudence
• Legal Theory
• Law and Animals
• +5 more