Andreae Callanan

poetry, scholarship, curiosity

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Scholarship

I recently completed my PhD in English at Memorial University; my dissertation was titled Orotating parafundities: reading Hopkins, Dickinson, Murray, and Carson autistically.

Andreae, a white woman with dark-rimmed glasses and shoulder-length salt-and-pepper coloured hair, is peering at the camera from behind a burgundy-coloured faux-leather packing tube. The tube is stamped in gold with the Memorial University crest and the words “Memorial University of Newfoundland.”

Currently, I’m juggling a few different writing projects and trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. My interests at the moment include: critical autism theory; critical disability theory; the disability/chronic illness memoir; prosody and poetics; and neurocosmopolitanism as a paradigm.

I taught poetry composition in the creative writing diploma program at Memorial for four years, and am hoping to be able to take on one-on-one mentorships in the future.

Here’s a recent interview with Joeita Gupta of Accessible Media Inc’s program The Pulse about a recent article I published with the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies:

Also: I’m autistic as heck.