research project, “The Vital Life of Rights in British and European Romanticism,” aims to re-examine the claims of current rights discourses by returning to their modern genesis in the turbulent political, cultural and literary debates of the Romantic period. He has published essays in the European Romantic Review and Spheres of Action: Speech and Performance in Romantic Culture (2009), and is currently co-editing a volume of essays entitled, Marking Time: Evolution and Romanticism (2012). Lambier’s doctoral research has been supported by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, and he has been a past winner of The Student Volunteer Award for Community Service in the City of Waterloo as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union.

his dissertation's analysis of Romantic prophecy as a phenomenon responding to a novel experience of time and history emergent in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He has published essays in European Romantic Review, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Romantic Praxis, Review of English Studies, and Rethinking British Romantic History, 1780-1840. In 2009 he received the Graduate Essay Prize from the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and in 2011 was the recipient of the Governor General's Gold Medal.

an active member of the London community, serving as a registered member of Pillar – London’s major not-for-profit network – and in September of 2011, acting as one of the head organizers for Oh!Fest, a free music festival held in conjunction with London’s wonderfully successful Car-Free Fest. While studying at The University of Western Ontario, he focused his dissertation on the role of therapeutic drugs in early 20th-Century Literature, exploring the tenuous relationship between the unsettling aspects of critical thinking and the individual’s desire for “thoughtless” chemical comfort. Over the course of his graduate education, he wrote and completed five novels and over forty short stories. He has been a recipient of four Ontario Graduate Scholarships, as well as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council doctoral fellowship.

He completed degrees at Dalhousie University and St. Francis Xavier University, where he was a J. P. McCarthy Scholar and nominee for the Rhodes scholarship. In 2011, Joel presented a research poster on cultural memory sponsored by the Harris Centre of Regional Policy and Development at the international meeting of the North Atlantic Forum. In 2012, he completed certificate programs on community change at the Pillar Nonprofit Network in London, Ontario and on social change at the Coady International Institute in Nova Scotia. At Coady, Joel’s capstone project was on the convergence of community-engaged scholarship and advanced research in the Humanities. In this project, Joel developed a method of conducting interviews rooted in the storytelling practices of Atlantic Canada that he will implement in a practice-based research initiative..

Samantha has volunteered at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery and was a mural painter for the NPO Action Neighbourhood Change. She has also worked as a researcher for a NPO that has a goal of establishing a national museum/science centre for Canada’s grain trade history. Samantha recently co-curated an exhibition from the McIntosh Gallery’s permanent collection in London, Ontario. Accompanying the exhibition was the catalogue publication Negotiation within the Frame: textual and pictorial connections in art. The research for her M.A. thesis focuses on contemporary indigenous artists who explore settler colonialism in their work, and contemporary art exhibitions that navigate the complexities of postcoloniality through references to popular culture

on concepts of homonormativity, homonationalism, and queering settler colonialism through an examination of the Smithsonian Hide/Seek exhibition, Kent Monkman’s paintings, and General Idea’s FILE Megazine project. In addition, she received a Queen’s University Excellence Scholarship and has worked at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and Museum London. Outside of the art world, Cierra has also worked extensively with social justice and activism programs, oftentimes working with youth. Of these include social issues theatre groups, education-based programs and conferences, fundraising events, and anti-oppression workshops.

Spending the last five years as a musician based in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Donald collaborated on a variety of community projects including a successful (and ongoing) public speaker series, a hyper-local community newspaper, and public space reclamation endeavors. Informed by the work of the Antigonish Movement, Donald is fiercely devoted to cooperative labour and education and is currently working on a graphic biography of the founder of the Antigonish Movement, Moses Coady.