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Zaren Healey White
McGill University
Canada

Zaren Healey White has recently completed her Master of Arts in English at McGill University, during which she received a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Master’s scholarship. Her major research paper, “‘A Morbid and Depraved Appetite’: Criminal Female Sexuality and the Porno-Gothic in George Thompson’s Venus in Boston and City Crimes” is a continuation of the work she completed at Memorial during a year of part-time graduate studies. Zaren completed her Bachelor of Art (Honours) in English with a minor in Women’s Studies at Memorial in 2010. At convocation, she was recognized with the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Award and the George M. Story Convocation Medal in Arts. Her research interests are in nineteenth-century British and American literature, particularly around gender, sexuality, and transgression. She is also interested in depictions of food, appetite, and consumption.