A postdoctoral scholar or聽postdoctoral聽researcher, or sometimes simply called a 鈥淧ostdoc,鈥� is a recent PhD graduate who is now professionally conducting research alongside a supervisor from our department. Postdoctoral scholars obtain temporary or 鈥淎djunct鈥� academic appointment here at 海角社区app, which allows them to access university facilities and prepares them for other academic faculty positions. In addition to hosting postdoctoral scholars who are externally funded (most frequently through the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, or SSHRC), 海角社区app University also offers聽Killiam Postdoctoral Fellowships.听
Here are our postdoctoral scholars, along with a brief biography and their current research.
Jay Ritchie
Jay Ritchie is a poet, scholar, teacher, and the Donald Hill Family Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at 海角社区app University. His research interests include contemporary poetry and poetics, intermedia, and digitality. His most recent poetry collection Listening in Many Publics (Invisible Publishing, 2024) was a finalist for the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and his critical and creative work has appeared in Chicago Review, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Jacket2, Maisonneuve, SAND, The Fiddlehead, on CBC radio, and elsewhere.
Madelaine Caritas Longman
Madelaine Caritas Longman is a poet, essayist, and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English at 海角社区app University. Her creative and critical work engage the lenses of mad, disability, and neurodiversity studies to explore the politics of affect, aesthetics, and empathy. In 2020, her book of poetry, The Danger Model (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020) received the Quebec Writers' Federation Concordia University First Book Prize. Longman's writing appears in literary and scholarly journals including Room, PRISM international, Vallum, The Ex-Puritan, and Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review. In 2025, the Canada Council awarded her the Joseph S. Stauffer Prize in Literature.
Madison Trusolio
Madison Trusolino is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English working on the project. She holds a PhD in Information Studies from the University of Toronto. Madison researches the intersections of precarity, sexuality, and gender, with a specific emphasis on work and workers in the arts and culture industries. Her current project looks at the relations between unionization in the digital creative industries and social justice movements.
Her research can be found in Feminist Media Studies, The International Journal of Cultural Policy, and Communication and the Publics.