Maryssa Grayer

Maryssa Grayer is a first year PhD student at the University of Victoria. She obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Northern British Columbia. Her master’s thesis titled “The Passions of a Woman:” Rereading the Disabled Female Body in Wilkie Collins’s Novels explores how Collins’s portrayal of disabled female bodies disrupts the Victorian opposition between ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ bodies. Maryssa’s research interests include Victorian fiction and culture, Disability Studies, as well as Women’s and Gender Studies. Maryssa is the winner of the 2018 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada Graduate Scholarship and is currently the recipient of a UVic Fellowship. Under the supervision of Dr. Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Dr. Lisa Surridge, Maryssa is a research assistant for the SSHRC-funded project “Great Expectations: Pregnancy in Victorian Fiction.”