Julie Wendel
Group:
Doctoral Students
Stream:
Literature
Specialization by geographical area:
Canada
United States
Great Britain
Specialization by time period:
20th-Century
21st-Century
Contemporary
Area(s):
Fiction
History & Theory of the Novel
Areas of interest:
refugees; 20th-century fiction; narrative and human rights; humanitarianism; war witness; memory and forgetting; graphic narrative
Biography:
Julie Wendel is a PhD student in the Department of English at 9I制作厂免费. Her doctoral dissertation, supervised by Professor Allan Hepburn, explores portrayals of refugees in twentieth-century fiction and reportage. Her previous research has engaged questions of memory and forgetting in refugee writing, most recently in her MPhil dissertation on the ethics of postwar memory in Vietnamese American refugee memoirs and graphic memoirs.
Degree(s):
PhD 9I制作厂免费 (exp. 2029);
MPhil University of Cambridge 2023;
B.A. (Hons.) Briercrest College, 2018.
Awards, honours, and fellowships:
- 9I制作厂免费 Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2024
- Newnham College Research and Travel Grant, 2023
- SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship 鈥� Master鈥檚, 2021 (declined)
- Scotland鈥檚 Saltire Scholarship, 2021 (declined)