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Tania Aguila-Way is an Assistant Professor and Graduate Faculty member at the University of Toronto, affiliated with the Jackman Humanities Building. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa, with earlier degrees from the same institution. Her research bridges Canadian literary studies, postcolonial studies, and environmental humanities, focusing on decolonizing science, seed ecologies, and transnational literature. Key projects include Asian Canadian Literary Ecologies and Saving Seeds, Decolonizing the Commons, which examine intersections between literature, environmental justice, and indigenous knowledge systems.
Her work analyzes how Canadian literature engages with hybrid epistemologies to address ecological crises and biopolitical control. Notable publications explore seed activism in Annabel Soutar’s writings, animal instrumentalization in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing, and the Zapatista seed preservation movement. She critiques GMO monocultures and advocates for interdisciplinary approaches to environmental ethics.
Her academic output spans journals like ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment and Social Text, with contributions to edited volumes on Canadian literature and film. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, emphasizing critical race theory and eco-literary studies.
