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UCL Connect Canada: Virtual Speed Networking
08 June 2021, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
The UCL Toronto Alumni Group invite you to join them for this virtual speed networking event exclusively for our UCL community in Canada.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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UCL Alumni Relations
Location
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Online---United Kingdom
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This informal event will include an introduction by Dr Christine (Xine) Yao, Lecturer in American Literature to 1900 in the UCL English department. Xine, who hails from Toronto, is Co-Host of PhDivas, a podcast about academia, culture, and social justice across the STEM/humanities divide. In 2020, she was named one of the BBC/AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) ‘New Generation Thinkers’.
This will be followed by a social speed networking session where you will be randomly matched with members of UCL’s alumni and student community from across Canada.
9am-10am PT | 12pm-1pm ET | 5pm-6pm UK
About the Speaker
Dr Christine (Xine) Yao
Lecturer in American Literature to 1900 at UCL
Christine “Xine” Yao hails from Toronto, Canada. She joined UCL in 2018 as Lecturer in American Literature in English to 1900. She held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of British Columbia (2016-2018). In 2016 Xine acted as PhD Marshal for her graduation from Cornell University where she completed her PhD in English with minors in American Studies and Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her MA is from Dalhousie University and her BA Honours is from the University of Toronto, Trinity College where she earned the Chancellor’s Gold Medal in the Arts. Her PhD and MA research received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Currently Xine serves on the Executive Committee of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists as a Member-at Large. For 2021-2024 she represents the LLC 19th-Century American Forum to the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association. She is the co-host of PhDivas, a podcast about academia, culture, and social justice across the STEM/humanities divide. Xine is the founding chair of the podcast initiative for C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. You can find them on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.