Fiana Kawane is a Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities, hosted by the Global Asia Program and affiliated with the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, at Simon Fraser University. She has an MA in English from the University of Toronto and is completing a PhD in English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia.

Her research focuses on global Anglophone literature, environmental humanities, and Asian migration. She has taught courses on literary and scholarly approaches to modern Asia and the Americas at the UBC Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice. She has worked as the editorial assistant for the Working Paper Series at the Centre for Migration Studies and is part of the CMS Migration & Indigeneity research group. She is a GAA for the UBC Global History of Anticolonial Thought Cluster and an Institute for Asian Research Fellow.

UBC Institute for Asian Research Fellowship, 2024-25

William Royce Butler and Jean Campbell Butler Scholarship, 2023-25

Mairi Grant Campbell Fellowship in English, 2023-24

UBC Science Support for Teams to Advance Interdisciplinary Research (STAIR) Grant, 2023-24

UBC Centre for Climate Justice Graduate Affiliate Funding, 2023

UBC Centre for Migration Studies Fellowship, 2022-23

Killam Doctoral Scholarship, 2021-23

President’s Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award, 2020-25

St John’s College George Shen Fellowship, 2020

UBC Four Year Fellowship, 2019-23

UBC Faculty of Arts Graduate Award, 2019