University of Guelph-Humber

Eufemia Fantetti has taught at the University of Guelph-Humber since 2018. Fantetti’s short fiction collection, A Recipe for Disaster & Other Unlikely Tales of Love (Mother Tongue Publishing), was runner up for the 2013 Danuta Gleed Literary Award and won the 2014 Bressani Prize for Short Fiction. She is a winner of Event Magazine’s Creative Nonfiction contest, a two-time finalist in the Canadian National Playwriting competition and a three-time winner of Accenti Magazine’s annual contest. Her writing was listed as a Notable Essay of 2009 in The Best American Essays Series and her work has been published in various anthologies including Conspicuous Accents, Emails from India, Fish, Exploring Voices, Love Me True and Body & Soul. She recently co-edited the anthology Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language (Book*hug, 2021) with Leonarda Carranza and Ayelet Tsabari. She also teaches at Humber College and works as a co-editor of The Humber Literary Review.

Dr. Alexia Hannis has been an Electives instructor at the University of Guelph-Humber since 2017. Dr. Hannis is a teacher, writer, and researcher who works at the nexus of literary narrative and ethics. Her teaching and research tend to focus on modern fiction and essays with a particular interest in themes of character and agency, ideological conflict, and the writing life. She has also worked in the publishing industry as a substantive editor, an assistant reviews editor, and a marketing assistant (children’s books). Dr. Hannis has published essays and reviews in various scholarly journals, including English Studies in Canada and Conradiana. In 2010, she won the Bruce Harkness Young Scholar award for an essay she later developed into a monograph on Aristotelian virtue ethics in Joseph Conrad’s fiction; she is currently revising her book for publication under advance contract with the University of Toronto Press.