Overview
Maria Al-Raes is a PhD Candidate in Literatures in English. Her research focuses on British literature of the long nineteenth century, with a particular interest in narrative poetics and queer theory. Her dissertation links Victorian novelists' formal experiments to wayward childhood experiences, showing how they shape their prose styles after the errant intimacies of child's play and world-making to reorient the Bildungsroman's plot of maturation. She completed her BA and MA in English literature at the University of Toronto, where her graduate research was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
Research Focus
- Nineteenth-century British literature and culture
- Theory of the novel
- Literary and cultural theory
- Queer theory