Jane holds a BA Honours degree in English Language and Literature from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She is currently in the second year of her MA at the University of British Columbia in the English Literature department. Her research focuses on feminist affect theory as it pertains to contemporary global literatures, particularly within the works of emergent women writers in South Korea. She is driven by a passion to understand how emotions and affects work within the body and how they relate to power relations within societies and cultures. Her version of affect—although she retains the right to change her mind—is discursive and ultimately implicated both in the body through its role in the amplification and moderation of the drives, and in the semiotic, political construction of the subject. Because her research implicates multiple different disciplines, Jane is constantly working to understand and build connections between different academic communities. She is excited to be an IAR Fellow with the Centre for Korean Research where she hopes to enhance her understanding of the historical and social contexts of the texts she engages with on a theoretical level, as well as build her language comprehension and translation skills.