Aseja Dava

PhD Student

Areas of Interest

Filipino/x studies
Memory and haunting
Poetics and storytelling
Black feminist thought
Transnational feminism
Monstrosity studies

Biography

Aseja Dava is a PhD student at the Women and Gender Studies Institute. They are a multidisciplinary artist-researcher who mobilizes critical poetics and hybrid-writing to think about the Philippines, memory, queerness, and monstrosity. Their work at WGSI will use methodologies of haunting in order to examine trauma, memory, and resistance among the Filipino diaspora.

Program: PhD 2023

Education

MA, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory, McMaster University

BSc, Environmental Sciences, McMaster University

Dissertation

Supervisor: S. Trimble and Dina Georgis