Kasia Van Schaik
Assistant Professor of English
Kasia Van Schaik est née en Afrique du Sud, a grandi en Colombie-Britannique et a vécu à Toronto, Berlin et Montréal, où elle a obtenu un doctorat à l'Université McGill. Elle est actuellement professeure adjointe d'anglais et codirectrice du programme d'écriture créative à l'Université du Nouveau-Brunswick. Elle est l'autrice du recueil de nouvelles We Have Never Lived on Earth (2022), nominé pour le prix Giller, du recueil de poèmes Sea Burial Laws According to Country (2018) et du recueil d'essais co-édité Shelter in Text: Essays on Dwelling and Refuge (2025). Ses écrits ont été publiés dans Electric Literature, LA Review of Books, Geist, Maisonneuve Magazine et CBC. Elle a lu et présenté ses travaux lors de festivals littéraires, notamment le Métropolis Bleu et le Festival Imagination de Québec. Women Among Monuments, sa première monographie, paraîtra en février 2026. Crédit photo : Greg Sides
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avril 2026
Women Among Monuments: A Conversation with Kasia Van Schaik
Kasia van Schaik was born in South Africa, raised in BC, and has lived in Toronto, Berlin, and Montreal, where she earned a doctorate from McGill. Kasia van Schaik is currently an assistant professor of English and the co-director of Creative Writing at UNB. Her books include the Giller-nominated story collection We Have Never Lived on Earth (2022), the poetry chapbook, Sea Burial Laws According to Country (2018), and the co-edited essay collection, Shelter in Text: Essays on Dwelling and Refuge (2025). Her writing has appeared in Electric Literature, the LA Review of Books, Geist, Maisonneuve Magazine, and the CBC. She has read and presented work at literary festivals including the Blue Metropolis and Quebec City's Imagination Festival. Forthcoming in February 2026, Women Among Monuments is her debut nonfiction book. Part cultural criticism, part memoir, Women Among Monuments is a meditation on the enduring obstacles women artists and writers face in a world still unaccustomed to recognizing female genius.
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avril 2026
Cross-Genre Writing: a workshop with Triny Finlay, Rebecca Salazar and Kasia Van Schaik
This creative writing workshop explores cross-genre practices as spaces of experimentation, hybridity, and formal freedom. Drawing on the work and experience of Triny Finlay and the other hosts, the session invites participants to reflect on how texts move between genres (fiction, poetry, essay, performance, or theory) and what such crossings make possible in terms of voice, structure, and meaning. The workshop will combine discussion and creative prompts, encouraging writers to think beyond fixed categories and to experiment with genre as a dynamic, porous practice.
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avril 2026
Translation in/of Fiction, Fiction in/of translation
With this panel, we wish to put three translation/literary scholars in conversation with Madhur Anand, specifically around her novel To Place a Rabbit, where fiction and the act of writing intersect with translation in multilayered and complex ways. During the panel, literary scholar and writer Kasia Juno Van Schaik (University of New Brunswick) and literary translation scholars Geneviève Robichaud (Mount Allison University, Université de Moncton) and Arianne Des Rochers (Université de Moncton) will be invited to provide a brief scholarly analysis of To Place a Rabbit, with particular focus on translation (both literal and figurative) as a poetic, literary and fictional device. These short presentations will be followed by an interactive discussion, where the author and the public will be invited to respond to and engage with the scholarly insights put forward.
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