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Denbeigh Whitmarsh 

Graduate Student, PhD

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23sjc2@queensu.ca

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Biography

Denbeigh Whitmarsh is a PhD student in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Queen’s University. Her research focuses on the ecocritical semiotics of land in relation to Indigenous, Diasporic, and Canadian oral literatures. She holds an MPhil in English Literature from Queen’s University, a Graduate Diploma in Teaching from the Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand), and a B.A.H. in French Literature from McGill University. She has professional experience as a writer, translator, and editor in English and French. She loves swimming, running, and climbing trees.

Research Interests

Orature; Ecocriticism; Geocriticism; Semiotics of land; Settler Canadian literatures; Diasporic Canadian literatures; Indigenous literatures of Turtle Island; Land Pedagogies; Environmental literatures

Selected Publications

  • [Forthcoming]. Rainville, Paul-Étienne. Construire Habiter Ressentir Montréal / Building Living Sensing Montréal. Translated by Karolina Roman and Denbeigh Whitmarsh. Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en études montréalaises (CRIEM), Centre des mémoires montréalaises (MEM), McGill University, and Éditions Cardinal, 2026.
  • [Forthcoming.] Whitmarsh, Denbeigh. “Marion in the Mulberries.” The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada, vol. 21, no. 2, 2026. [Short story].
  • [Forthcoming] Whitmarsh, Denbeigh, and Ian Clarke, eds. The Lamp Literary Journal. Volume XVI, Queen’s University, October 2026.
  • Whitmarsh, Denbeigh [Loretta Foley]. “Death of a Dead Granddad.” Queen’s Quarterly, vol. 132, no. 2, 2025, pp. 286-291. [Short story]
  • Whitmarsh, Denbeigh, and Rhonda Leeman Taylor. OFFSIDE—A Memoir—Challenges Faced by Women in Hockey. Self-published monograph, October 2019. 

Denbeigh Whitmarsh has also published poetry under various aliases in The Veg Literary Magazine, The Empathy Journal, Yolk, The Imagist Literary Magazine, and F-Word: Montreal’s Multimedia Feminist Publication. She has written, translated and/or edited various pieces for PAPP International Inc., The Lamp Literary Journal, Shoreline Press and select independent authors, and she has completed an editorial internship at McGill-Queen’s University Press.  

Awards and Qualifications

  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2026-2027)
  • Canada Graduate Scholarships–Master’s Award (2024-2025)
  • Tri-Agency Recipient Recognition Award (2024-2025)
  • Queen’s Graduate Award (2024-2027)
  • Ontario College of Teachers’ License (2024-2026)
  • J. W. McConnell Scholarship (2017-2024, McGill University)

Conferences

  • Whitmarsh, Denbeigh. “Ecocritical Asian Canadian and Indigenous Relations in Saeed Teebi’s Her First Palestinian and Other Stories and Mariam Pirbhai’s Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) Conference 2026, Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), 4-7 June 2026.
  • Whitmarsh, Denbeigh. “Marion in the Mulberries [Creative Short Story].” Queen’s Graduate Conference on Literature 2026: “Haunted Bodies,” Queen’s University, Kingston, 22-24 May 2026.
  • Whitmarsh, Denbeigh. Moderator. “Panel 2: Resistance Under Constraint: Ideology, Subjectivity, and Survival.” Queen’s Undergraduate Conference on Literature (QUCL), 28 Feb 2026. 
  • Whitmarsh, Denbeigh. “Shoreline Press: A New Model of Community Publishing in Québec’s Eastern Townships.” Bibliographic Society of Canada (BSC) Conference 2025: New Histories of the Small Press. Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Congress 2025, George Brown College, Toronto (June 5–6, 2025).  
  • Whitmarsh, Denbeigh. “Semiotic Landscapes as Repositories of Gaspésienne Feminist Oral Literatures in Les fous de Bassan by Anne Hébert.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) Congress 2025: Reframing Togetherness. Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Congress 2025, George Brown College, Toronto. (May 30–June 2, 2025).
  • Whitmarsh, Denbeigh. “Semiotic Landscapes as Repositories of Oral Literature in Vies minuscules by Pierre Michon.” The Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures (ACQL) Conference 2025, Online. (May 23–25, 2025). 

Graduate Supervision

Heather Macfarlane