Editor-in-Chief: Tarjanee Parmar
Tarjanee Parmar is pursuing her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Western Ontario. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in English Literature at St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad, and her Master’s degree in Comparative Literature at the Western University. Her research interests are Dalit literature, Postcolonial literature and Women’s studies. She is the recipient of The Blue Club Media Fellowship 2020 and is set to publish four articles that she wrote as a part of the fellowship.
Deputy Editor: Sohrab Mosahebi
Sohrab Mosahebi is an Iranian student of Comparative Literature at Western University. His academic research field is literary theory and criticism, with a focus on Decolonization, Racialism, and Literary Epistemology. He has been working on Iranian diasporic poets as well as Persian classic authors. He tends to focus more on social issues and challenge the dominant neocolonial discourse of the 21st century. Sohrab sees the “deconstruction” of Eurocentric thinking as his academic mission. He has been editor-in-chief in two student magazines and journals, published two peer-reviewed articles and one project, and served as a peer-reviewer for the 13th volume of The Arbutus Review at the University of Victoria where he got his MA in English, before joining The Scattered Pelican first as a copyeditor and later as the deputy editor.
Reviews Editor: Yasmine Lemnij
Yasmine Lemnij is a second year PhD student in Comparative Literature. They graduated from the university of Aberdeen with an MA and a life-long passion for the interdisciplinary nature of the field. Their research focuses on queer literature, queer theory, the writing of trauma, and 20th century European philosophy and theory. Their privileged trilingual background also makes them highly interested in the role of translation. This is their first year contributing to The Scattered Pelican team.
Copy Editor: Vitor Fernandes
Vitor Fernandes is the newest member of The Scattered Pelican team. He is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at the University of Western Ontario and has a master’s degree in English Literature from UFRGS in Brazil. He also has experience in teaching ESL and in the translation market for English-to-Brazilian Portuguese.
Public Relations: Silva Baiton
Silva Baiton is an MA student in Comparative Literature at the University of Western Ontario. Her current research focuses on biopower and the grotesque mode in Japanese speculative fiction. She previously completed a BA in English with a double minor in Asian Studies and Japanese at the University of Lethbridge.
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