Researcher Ashley Morford, author Suki Kim

Program Title: Endeavours - Indigenous Queer Theory, Fandom, and North Korea
Description: Ashley Morford recently recevied her MA in English Literature from Simon Fraser and for her thesis looked at Sherlock Holmes from a Queer Indigenous Perspective. Recently accepted into multiple PhD programs, she will now focus on Frankenstein. Ashley discuss Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbatch, Fan Fiction, Queer Theory, literary criticism and Mary Shelley.

Suki Kim is an author whose debut novel "The Interpreter" has been translated into multiple languages, won the PEN Beyond Margins Award, The Gustavus Myers Outsanding Book Award and was a finalist for the PEN Hemingway Award. She has been the recipient of a Fulbright Research Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Open Societies Fellowship. Her latest book is "Without You, There is No Us", a memoir a her time teaching in North Korea, and one the few outsider looks at the worlds most dangerous regime.

Host(s): Dan McPeake
Featured Speakers/Guests: Ashley Caranto Morford Suki Kim

Credits: written & produced by Dan McPeake

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