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Sasha Colby's recent book, 'Matryoshka Memoirs: The Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour,' explores the visual history of 20th-century literature through biographical creative forms. The book investigates oral histories from Irina Kylynych, a labourer at the Leica Camera factory during World War II, and draws connections to Elsie Kühn-Leitz, a Leica heiress who was interrogated by the Gestapo. Alongside this, Colby is engaged in a biographical fiction project about French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, which is funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant from 2020 to 2025. Additionally, her previous works include 'Staging Modernist Lives' which examines key modernist writers and has received SSHRC funding for research. Colby has also toured as a performer presenting a one-woman play on H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) across North America, Europe, and Asia. Currently, she serves as the full-time director of the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at Simon Fraser University, where she teaches graduate courses in writing and literary modernism, guided by her expansive research interests in language and identity.
Department of Philosophy