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Jacob Guy Aubut

23MRB@queensu.ca

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Graduate Students

Biography

Jacob Aubut earned his Honours degree in English Language and Literature at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, where he also pursued Minors in Culture, Race, and Resistance and in Dramatic Literature. He earned his MPhil in English at Queen’s University, where he is a PhD candidate. His research focuses on artificial intelligence and literary modernism, notably the writing of Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and D. H. Lawrence. 

Research Interests

Literary modernism, artificial intelligence, postmodernism, post-structuralism, gender theory, queer theory. 

Selected Publications 

Articles (Peer-reviewed)
Ue, Tom, and Jacob Guy Aubut. “A Moment’s Reprieve: Reading Edward Prime-Stevenson’s Left to Themselves Geographically.” Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, November 2023, pp. 165–76, https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2023.10. 

Awards and Recognition 

SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship (2025–2028)
Duncan and Urlla Carmichael Fellowship (2024–2025)
Sherri Campbell Memorial Award (2024-2025)
Master’s Tri-Agency Recipient Recognition Award (2023–2024)
Canada’s Graduate Scholarship–Master’s (2023–2024)
Anthony Law Scholarship (2023–2024)

Graduate Supervision

Dr. Gabrielle McIntire 
Dr. Molly Wallace (second reader)

Additional Information

Conferences:

  • “‘The Whole Earth is Our Hospital:’ Ecology and Memory in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets.” F[r]iction Conference, University of Toronto. (April 2024)
  • “Spectacle, Violence, and the Banality of Evil in Dan Leno & The Limehouse Golem”
  • “Re-Imagining and Re-engaging with the Victorians,” Queen’s University, online. (April 2024) 
  • “‘I Feel as Though I Were Drowning:’ Sites of Discipline in Machinal.” Annual Atlantic Undergraduate English Conference, Mount Allison University. (March 2023)
  • “‘I Am Dying, Los Angeles, Dying:’ Eve Babitz’s Glamour as Distorted Reality.” The Saint Mary’s University Faculty of Arts Student Conference, Saint Mary’s University (March 2023)