Kristina Stajic

PhD Candidate
kristina.stajic@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Modern and Contemporary Hispanic Literatures and Cultures

Areas of Interest

  • Contemporary Mexican Literature; 20th and 21st century narrative;
  • Social and political thought;
  • Contemporary literary intimacies;
  • Gender and queer studies;
  • Corporeality;
  • State sovereignty;
  • Corruption and state-sponsored violence;
  • Histories and theories of violence;
  • Philosophy and literature;
  • Phenomenology;
  • Aesthetics and subjectivity.

Working Dissertation

Title

The representations of intimacies in the twenty-first century Mexican novel

Supervisors

Professor Susan Antebi

Biography

Kristina Stajic is a PhD candidate at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto. Her thesis titled "The representations of intimacies in the twenty-first century Mexican novel" is funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). In addition, she researches and writes in the interstices between Mexican literature, queer and gender theory, histories and theories of violence, embodiment and phenomenology. She has recently published an article in the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (UPR), titled “Body, language and heterogeneity in Josefina Baez’s Dominicanish” as well as a book review in the Revista Chasqui, “Book review: Unlawful Violence by Rebecca Janzen”. At the University of Toronto, Kristina has taught as a course instructor and a teaching assistant for Spanish language courses as well as a teaching assistant for the Brazilian Cinema course.

Education

MA, University of Toronto
BA, York University, Glendon College

Presentations

“El cuerpo y la intimidad en Lo anterior y La muerte me da de Cristina Rivera Garza”. NeMLA: Northeastern Modern Languages Association, Niagara Falls, New York, March 24-26, 2023.
“Desierto sonoro de Valeria Luiselli: una nueva mirada a la crisis migratoria de 2014”. XXVII Juan Bruce-Novoa Mexican Studies Conference, University of California, Irvine, February 16-18, 2023.
“Discovering Intimate Spaces in Octavio Paz’s El laberinto de la soledad through a Queer Lens”. NeMLA: Northeastern Modern Languages Association, Baltimore, Maryland, March 10-14, 2022.

Cohort

  • 2020-2021