Dr. Kasia Van Schaik

Biography

Kasia Van Schaik is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of New Brunswick, specializing in twentieth and twenty-first century North American literature, creative writing, autobiography, experimental writing, eco-feminist poetics, and cultural theory. Her research focuses on the intersections of narrative, gender, and environment. She is the author of a linked story collection published in 2022 by the University of Alberta Press, which was nominated for the 2023 Giller Prize and various other accolades. She is also working on a cultural criticism memoir, Women Monuments, set to be published in 2026, which explores histories of female genius and the conditions for art-making. Kasia has co-edited an academic essay collection that investigates the relationship between shelter and narrative, forthcoming from the University of Alberta Press. She holds a PhD from McGill University, where her doctoral thesis won the 2023 Arts Insights Dissertation Award. Kasia’s critical and creative writing has appeared in various prestigious platforms, and she has experience teaching literature, film, and creative writing at McGill University. At UNB, she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses and supervises students in their literary pursuits.

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