Shazia is a SSHRC (CGS-D) Doctoral Fellow and Killam Laureate studying English at the University of Calgary. Her research engages with aurality, intergenerational trauma, the Second World War, and intimacies and afterlives of empire through the lens of the long-eighteenth century. Shazia received an MFA from the University of British Columbia and a BA from Simon Fraser University, where she studied English and History.