Amy Mazowita

Amy Mazowita is a SSHRC-funded PhD Candidate at Concordia University and a 2023-2024 Concordia Public Scholar. Her doctoral research is situated at the intersections of Critical Disability Studies, Comics Studies, and Social Media Studies. Amy's project is focused on Instagram-based mental health/illness comics, and is especially interested in the grassroots communities and networks of care that form in response to these digital texts. Amy is also interested in the Environmental Humanities and is currently working on a research-creation project that traces the affects and effects of wildfires in Manitoba's Whiteshell Provincial Park. This project is part of the SSHRC-funded "Mobilizing Disability Survival Skills for the Urgencies of the Anthropocene" project (P.I. Arseli Dokumaci). Amy is a core member of Concordia's Access in the Making Lab, a member of Concordia's Feminist Media Studio, a TA in the Department of Communication Studies, and the Communications Representative for the Communication Studies Doctoral Student Association.