Tavleen Purewal

Tavleen Purewal is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick specializing in contemporary Canadian literature through critical race, Indigenous, and affect theory lenses. Her monograph-in-progress, Torn Intimacies, examines how negative emotions in Black Canadian literature reveal complex Black-Indigenous relationships under settler colonialism. A second project analyzes formal strategies used by racialized writers to resist colonial intimacy patterns.

Her published work appears in Canadian Literature, ARIEL, and edited collections. Research explores literary representations of racialized identities, cross-community relations, and protest narratives, with special attention to works by Black, Indigenous, and Asian Canadian authors.