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Cynthia Quarrie teaches and researches Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Anglophone literature, with special interests in contemporary British fiction, the Black Atlantic, historical novels, ethics and phenomenology, ecocriticism and nature writing, as well as gender and sexuality studies. She received her PhD from the University of Toronto and is currently working on a monograph, an emerging SSHRC-funded project titled 'Race and Place: Deep Time Environmental Custodianship in Contemporary British Writing.' This project examines contemporary environmental writing in Britain through the lens of racialized, postcolonial, and autochthonous constructions of identity and belonging, particularly invoking 'deep time' ancestral belonging. Quarrie has published essays in various journals, including Modern Literature, Studies in Novel, Contemporary Literature, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and Irish Studies Review. Additionally, she co-organizes a reading group named 'The Ambivalence of Rootedness' and supervises graduate students.
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