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Kayla Penteliuk is a Ph.D. candidate and course lecturer in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature at McGill University’s Faculty of Arts. Her research focuses on comedic subgenres and deviant female identities (e.g., witches, spinsters, Bohemians) in women-authored British middlebrow novels. She has published in *Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature* and the *Literary Review of Canada*, with an upcoming 2024 article on Sylvia Townsend Warner’s archives.
Education: Ph.D. (exp. 2024), McGill University; M.A. (2020), University of Saskatchewan; B.A. (Hons) (2018), University of Saskatchewan.
Her interdisciplinary work bridges Victorian/Modernist literature, disability studies, and occult studies. Notable topics include the intersections of comedy and marginalization, feminist archival practices, and gender in historical narratives. Her SSHRC-funded research explores how middlebrow texts challenge literary canons while reflecting socio-cultural anxieties.
- Awards: SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship (2020-2023), Hinz/Teunissen Memorial Scholarship (2019)
- Publications: Focused on 19th/20th-century British literature, feminist criticism, and Canadian historical fiction
