Cameron Sparling is pursuing a PhD in English Studies at the University of Toronto, focusing on poststructuralist (primarily French) theory and the Canadian and American novel in the late twentieth century. Responding to the significance of the migrant in current political discourse, his proposed research is a survey of eighteen migration narratives, 1941–98, to identify the formal tropes used to construct or deny senses of dignity and belonging in a globalizing world. 

Cameron is a Junior Fellow at Massey College, a member of a collaborative specialization through the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, and a recipient of the Ontario Graduate Scholarship. He is currently chair of the Graduate English Association annual conference. 

Watch her three minutes thesis presentation titled “Houses in motion: Memory and migrant poetics in five late twentieth century novels”: