A postdoctoral scholar or聽postdoctoral聽researcher, or sometimes simply called a 鈥淧ostdoc,鈥� is a recent PhD graduate who is now professionally conducting research alongside a supervisor from our department. Postdoctoral scholars obtain temporary or 鈥淎djunct鈥� academic appointment here at 麻豆传媒, which allows them to access university facilities and prepares them for other academic faculty positions. In addition to hosting postdoctoral scholars who are externally funded (most frequently through the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, or SSHRC), 麻豆传媒 also offers聽Killiam Postdoctoral Fellowships.听
Here are our postdoctoral scholars, along with a brief biography and their current research.
Madison Trusolio
Madison Trusolino is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English working on the project. She holds a PhD in Information Studies from the University of Toronto. Madison researches the intersections of precarity, sexuality, and gender, with a specific emphasis on work and workers in the arts and culture industries. Her current project looks at the relations between unionization in the digital creative industries and social justice movements.
Her research can be found in Feminist Media Studies, The International Journal of Cultural Policy, and Communication and the Publics.
Research Topics:
- Cretive and Cultural Industries
- Gender Studies
- Labour Studies
- Political Economy of Communication
Education:
- BA, York University
- MA, Simon Fraser University
- PhD, University of Toronto
Selected Publications:
Trusolino, Madison, & Diandra Ships. (2023). 鈥淐omedy鈥檚 double killjoy: workers鈥� DIY strategies to address harassment and precarity in the comedy industry.鈥� Feminist Media Studies.
Trusolino, Madison. (2022). 鈥淟aughter from the sidelines: Precarious work in the Canadian Comedy industry.鈥� In Miranda Campbell & Cheryl Thompson (Eds.), Creative Industries in Canada (pp. 86-108). Canadian Scholars Press.
Trusolino, Madison. (2022). 鈥溾�業 wanna kill my rapist鈥�: Margaret Cho鈥檚 #12DaysofRage campaign as promotional digital activism.鈥� Communication and the Public, 7(3), 131-145.
de Peuter, Greig, Kate Oakley & Madison Trusolino. (2022). 鈥淭he pandemic politics of cultural work: Collective responses to the COVID-19 Crisis.鈥� The International Journal of Cultural Policy, 29(3), 377-392.
Shade, Leslie Regan & Madison Trusolino. (2018). 鈥溾�業t鈥檚 the power, stupid鈥�: Facebook鈥檚 unequal treatment of gendered hate speech.鈥� Canadian Yearbook for Human Rights, 1(2), 195-202.
Trusolino, Madison. 2017. 鈥溾�業t鈥檚 not about one bad apple鈥�: The 2007 York University Vanier Residence rapes.鈥� In E. Quinlan, C. Fogel, & G. Tailor (Eds.), Sexual violence at Canadian universities: Activism, institutional responses, and strategies for change (pp. 79-92). Wilfrid Laurier Press.
Sheheryar Sheikh
Sheheryar B. Sheikh (aka Shero) is a Donald Hill Family Postdoctoral Fellow at 麻豆传媒. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame (鈥�07) and a PhD in English from the University of Saskatchewan, where he worked with Dr. Lindsey M. Banco.
For his dissertation, Shero won the University of Saskatchewan Doctoral Dissertation award in the Fine Arts & Humanities category, and a refined version of the manuscript is forthcoming as a publication from Bloomsbury Academic in November 2025.
As a Donald Hill Family Postdoctoral Fellow at 麻豆传媒, working along side Dr. Heather Jessup, Shero is writing a book of short stories about immigrants and refugees in Canada, finishing up a novel about a father-son relationship in early Covid, and creating a series of vignettes, short stories, and novellas set in an ecumenopolis (or world-city) that the Earth may become, set in 2500-2555 CE.
Recent & Forthcoming Publications:
Academic Monograph
- The Post-9/11 Great American Novel: Fictional Perpetuations of White American Trauma and Islamophobia. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, forthcoming.
Novels
- "." HarperCollins India, 2019. **Shortlisted for All-Pakistan Getz Pharma Award, 2020
- HarperCollins India, 2017. **Longlisted for All-Pakistan Getz Pharma Award, 2019
Book Chapters
- 鈥淥thering ad Infinitum: A Critical-Creative Examination of the Secular and Spiritual in Nalo Hopkinson鈥檚 Brown Girl in the Ring (Brown Boy Under the Cape),鈥� ReVisions: Speculating in Literature and Film in Canada, University of Toronto Press, 2025, forthcoming.
- 鈥傗�淎pocalypse Ever After: Lifted Veils and Transcendent Time in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,鈥� ReFocus: The Works of Michel Gondry, edited Marcelline Block and Jennifer Kirby. Edinburgh University Press, 2020, pp. 132-150.
Refereed Journal Articles
- 鈥淭he Walls that Emancipate: Disambiguation of the 鈥楻oom鈥� in A Room of One鈥檚 Own,鈥� Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 42, no. 1, 2018, pp. 19-31.
- 鈥淩ebirthing the Referents: Nuclear Criticism Seen Through Shifting Post-Apocalyptic Signifiers in Cormac McCarthy鈥檚 The Road,鈥� Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture, vol. 17, issue 2, Fall 2018.