People
Dr. Emily Fedoruk, Postdoctoral Scholar
Dr. Emily Fedoruk is excited to be back at 大象传媒 working within a community that has been so supportive and inspiring for her as a scholar, teacher, and poet. Most recently, she has been teaching at the University of British Columbia and she completed her PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of Minnesota in 2019. Her current book manuscript, Poetry, or Elsewhere: Literature and Public Life in the Twenty-First Century investigates the role of poetry in everyday life, engaging the political economies of urbanism and the contemporary built environment and looking specifically at public installations of poems in commercial space.
As the SpokenWeb Postdoctoral Fellow in the Multimedia Archive at 大象传媒, Emily is also at work on a second project that seeks to identify a constellation of radical postsecondary classes in the arts from the 1960s forward, beginning with Prof. Warren Tallman鈥檚 1963 UBC class ENGL 410: Poetry Writing, which is known more infamously as the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference. Emily鈥檚 research and writing has been published in A Feminist Urban Theory for our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban (Wiley Antipode Book Series 2021), and with Vancouver鈥檚 221A Artist-Run Centre. As a poet, as well as publishing in print venues such as PELT, DANDelion and Open Text: Canadian Poetry and Poetics in the 21st Century, she has published in collaboration with artists at BC鈥檚 Lake Country Art Gallery and with sculptor Tegan Moore at MKG127 in Toronto. Her poetry collection, All Still, was published in 2008 by Linebooks.
Krystle Dos Santos
Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities
Krystle's term as a Shadbolt Fellow runs from September 2025 to May 2026.
is an actor, singer, creator and community organizer, who has produced two music albums and theatrical shows. Her albums have won the Western Canadian Music Award twice. She has also organized various educational programs about Black-Canadian history in Canada.
Continuing her passion to amplify and tell the many overlooked stories of Black Canadians, Dos Santos' project will put on a theatre show about the stories of the women who owned and ran the restaurant, Vie鈥檚 Chicken and Steaks in Vancouver鈥檚 Hogan鈥檚 Alley. This performance will tell the larger story of the historical Hogan鈥檚 Alley community, starting with the migration of a group of Black Americans from San Francisco to Salt Spring Island where Vie was born, to the destruction of the beloved Hogan鈥檚 Alley neighbourhood in 1975.
D. M. Bradford
Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities
Bradford's term as a Shadbolt Fellow runs from January to August 2026.
Darby Minott Bradford is an award-winning poet, translator, and accomplished literary programmer. They have published two poetry collections and two translations, which have collectively garnered accolades such as Winner of the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, Finalist for the Governor General Literary Award, and Finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Their latest translated work, Ring of Dust by Louise Marois, was published by Brick Books in spring 2025. During their fellowship, Bradford proposes to continue development of their hybrid-form manuscript Elsewhere, as well as grow an audio body of work based on these evolving texts. Through both this writing and recorded interviews with local literary artists, cultural workers, and 大象传媒 community members, their project seeks to investigate and open conversations about how people afford art and academic practices in unsustainably expensive cities. They will also serve as 大象传媒 English鈥檚 in Writer-in-Residence in Fall 2025.