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Carla is a 19-year-old Honours student at McGill University whose work sits at the intersection of queer theory, disability studies, and contemporary literature. She is currently completing a thesis that reinterprets love and religion in the poetry of Leonard Cohen through a queer theoretical lens, challenging conventional narratives around intimacy and the sacred. She is the recipient of the Dow-Hickson Scholarship, awarded in recognition of her academic excellence and research promise. Her wider research examines how literature constructs disability, and she is particularly interested in how reading practices can unsettle inherited assumptions and open up more ethically grounded ways of understanding marginalized identities. Her work invites audiences to reconsider the narratives they take for granted and to imagine literary futures that offer fuller, more capacious space for marginalized lives.
Carla is a 19-year-old Honours student at McGill University whose work sits at the intersection of queer theory, disability studies, and contemporary literature. She is currently completing a thesis that reinterprets love and religion in the poetry of Leonard Cohen through a queer theoretical lens, challenging conventional narratives around intimacy and the sacred. She is the recipient of the Dow-Hickson Scholarship, awarded in recognition of her academic excellence and research promise. Her wider research examines how literature constructs disability, and she is particularly interested in how reading practices can unsettle inherited assumptions and open up more ethically grounded ways of understanding marginalized identities. Her work invites audiences to reconsider the narratives they take for granted and to imagine literary futures that offer fuller, more capacious space for marginalized lives.