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Catherine Umolac

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Catherine Umolac
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in English, York University
E-mail: cau55@yorku.ca

Catherine Umolac is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at York University. Her research focuses on Canadian Literature and specifically the conversation that takes place between memoirs and archives. Her comparative project investigates this dialogue in the context of three pivotal events in Canadian history: residential schools, Japanese Canadian internment and Jewish Canadian internment.

Keywords: Memoir; archive; Japanese Canadians; Jewish Canadians; Indigenous Peoples; residential schools

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Fifth Bernard H.K Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies @ Livestreamed and in-person
Envisioning Global Hong Kong Studies: Possibilities, Politics and Praxis 2022 Bernard H.K. Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies with Ching Kwan Lee (UCLA) The [...]
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Negotiating Hakka Identities in Multicultural Mauritius
From seeking (temporary) refuge in a European colony in the Indian Ocean after 1860 to becoming an integral part of a post-independent ‘rainbow nation’, the [...]
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Inventories of Dispossession | Tamil Studies Symposium 2022 @ Centre for Social Innovation (Annex)
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