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Elena Senechal-Becker

Elena Senechal-Becker
Contact Information
Email address: 
elena.senechal-becker [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Group: 
Doctoral Students
Stream: 
Literature
Specialization by geographical area: 
Canada
United States
Transatlantic
Specialization by time period: 
20th-Century
21st-Century
Contemporary
Area(s): 
Affect Theory
Digital Humanities
Genre Studies
Identity & Representation
Sociology of Literature
Areas of interest: 

literary sociology; self-help; genre studies; queer theory; contemporary literature, digital humanities

Biography: 

My research investigates the rising influence of digital culture, disinformation, and wellness narratives, focusing on the broad and underdefined genre of 鈥渟elf-help.鈥 By pursuing a close reading of the rhetoric and narrative strategies employed across self-help texts in their various iterations online, my research explores how these uses subvert hegemonic narratives of 鈥渟uccess,鈥 effectively queering the genre of self-help. By queering, I mean the active disruption of normative assumptions about individual achievement, temporality, and relationality embedded in traditional self-help discourse.

I am a writer and editor and have worked in the publishing industry for five years. I co-founded, a generative workshop for queer writers in Toronto. My journalism has been published in Xtra and Azure, and my reviews have appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine and the Temz Review, among others. Academic reviews are forthcoming in Gender and Language and TOPIA.

Degree(s): 

M.A. University of Toronto, 2020

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • Toronto Arts Council Literary Projects Grant, 2025
  • SSHRC CGS-M Scholarship, 2019鈥2020
  • Women and Gender Studies Institute Program Award, 2019
  • Jackman Scholars-in-Residence Award, 2018
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