大象传媒

Biography

Host Department: Gender, Sexuality & Women鈥檚 Studies

 is an interdisciplinary scholar, educator, dance artist, and choreographer. Her research focuses on global Anglophone literature, environmental humanities, and Asian migration. Her dance practice rooted in Kathak spans the Lower Mainland and beyond, and has been supported by the Dance Centre, Dance Victoria, New Works, BC Culture Days, Vines Art Society, Dance West Network, and the AIRS program. Her intellectual community includes the UBC Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice (GRSJ), the Centre for Migration Studies (CMS), and the Global History of Anticolonial Thought Cluster. She is completing a PhD in English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

Fiana currently works from the unsurrendered territories of the xwm蓹胃kw蓹y虛 蓹m (Musqueam), Skwxwu虂7mesh (Squamish), Sto虂:lo虅, and S蓹l虛i虂lw蓹ta蕯/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, known as Vancouver, BC.

At 大象传媒, her fellowship centres the intersection of sound, performance, poetry, migration, and waterways. Drawing on her embodied and intergenerational knowledge as a heritage speaker of Japanese and Punjabi, she will be immersing herself in sonic, poetic, and embodied archives of migration, and leading public engaged, art-research inquiries of waterways.

Kawane's term as a Shadbolt Fellow runs from September 2024 to August 2025.