Fiana Kawane (she/her) is a PhD candidate in English Language and Literatures, and Sessional Lecturer at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She received her MA in English literature from the University of Toronto. Her research areas include modern South Asia, 20th and 21st century global anglophone poetry, political ecology, and affect theory. Her doctoral dissertation reads lyric poetry by South Asian diasporic writers publishing between the 1970s and 2000s to rethink narratives of natures and im/mobilities. She foregrounds critical readings of transnational poetry within the context of settler-colonialisms, new nationalisms, and late modernity. For 2023-’24, she is the Editorial Assistant for the UBC Centre for Migration Studies Working Paper Series, Coordinator of the UBC South Asia Research Colloquium, and an Editorial Board Member for the UBC Journal for Climate Justice.