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About Me.

Pronouns: she/they

Email alisha@alishagrech.com

Location Tkaronto, CAN 

 Twitter • Instagram

Education

2020 - CURRENT

PhD
University of Toronto

CURRENT

Graduate Fellowship

Critical Digital Humanities Initiative

2022

Summer Fellowship

African American Policy Forum

2019 - 2020

MA
University of Toronto

2018

Summer Certificate 

Yale School of Drama - Theatre and Creative Direction

2018

BAH
Queen's University

Employment History

CURRENT

African American Policy Forum

CURRENT

University of Toronto

2021 - 2022

University of Toronto

Arts and Media Assistant

Teaching Assistant, Devised Theatre 

Teaching Assistant, World Theatre Histories 

2020 - 2022

Wells Academy

Instructor, Academic Writing, Shakespeare for Kids 

2020 - 2021

University of Toronto

Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Performance Studies

Publications

FORTHCOMING

Voicing the Less Dead Collection

We’re Missing the Point:  The Privilege of Victimhood, White Body Supremacy....

Coming soon...

2022

Women's Studies Quarterly

The Experiential Matrix: A Feminist Zine about Feminist Zines

"It is what it sounds like - a feminist zine-ception, if you will."

2021

Rani Creative

Billie Eilish, Feeling Good and the Agency of the Feminine "Utopian" Body

"The relationship between perfectionism and the feminine body is a long and, ultimately, unhealthy one. Like many structures of abuse, this relationship traps female-identifying persons in a quasi-Bermuda triangle situation. Let me give you a few examples..."

2019

Intermission Magazine

Painting A Picture About Feminist Theatre 

"Feminism is a buzzword. Today, it’s everywhere: on t-shirts, on water bottles, and all over Instagram..."

Creative Credits

2020 - 2022

6am Productions

Actor

Tiffany: Love in the First Degree 

Charlie: Space Crime Continuum 

2019 - 2020

Talk to Me

Creator

Creator of a social media based performance art project, debuted at the University of Toronto, viewable at @lishfolio on Instagram

2018 - 2019

American Idiot
Director, Juvenis Festival

Director of the production "American Idiot" produced by the Juvenis Festival in Kingston, Ontario, 2019

Achievements 

2021

University of Toronto Arts and Science Fellowship with Academic Distinction

2020

Recipient of the Shane Baghai Fellowship in English Literature

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