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Veronica Austen is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at St. Jerome's University (affiliated with the University of Waterloo). With a PhD and MA from the University of Waterloo and a BA from the University of Guelph, she specializes in Postcolonial and Canadian Literature, particularly Caribbean diaspora texts and the intersection of visual arts with literary forms.
- Education: PhD (Waterloo), MA (Waterloo), BA (Guelph)
Her research interrogates:
- Ethical representation of trauma in Caribbean-Canadian literature
- Visual experimentation in diasporic poetry
- Acts of eating as power dynamics in narrative
- Interdisciplinary approaches combining literary and visual arts
- Contingent faculty labor rights in academia
Her recent publications focus on Dionne Brand, Roy Kiyooka, and Kim Fu, exploring how visual elements in texts negotiate identity and belonging. She co-organizes the St. Jerome’s Reading Series to promote Canadian literature.
- 2019 WUSA Teaching Award
- Multiple SSHRC grants for art-literature intersection research
- Advocacy for part-time faculty equity
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