{"id":20,"date":"2025-06-18T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adriannamichell.com\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2026-08-04T12:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:42:30","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.adriannamichell.com\/","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-style-section-1 has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained is-style-section-1--1\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-f911b2ec wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0;flex-basis:60%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><p class=\"is-style-text-subtitle\" style=\"padding: 0 var(--wp--preset--spacing--40) 0 var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);\">Adrianna Michell is a researcher, literary critic, and educator.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-size:clamp(0.875rem, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.667), 1.3rem);\">Adrianna is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto in the department of English where she studies disability and temporality in contemporary American and Canadian literature. Her SSHRC-funded doctoral research considers how fiction deploys disability and time as entwined narrative features, which in turn provoke ethical and aesthetic experimentation. Her academic writing has appeared in <em>Synapsis<\/em> and <em>Media, Culture, &amp; Society<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-size:clamp(0.875rem, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.667), 1.3rem);\">She is a founder and reviews editor of <em>Toronto Review<\/em>. Her criticism has appeared in the <em>Cleveland Review of Books<\/em> and the <em>Pittsburgh Review of Books<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">contact: adrianna.michell@mail.utoronto.ca<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thetorontoreview.ca\">Toronto Review<\/a><\/em> contact: adrianna@thetorontoreview.ca<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/adriannamichell\/\">instagram<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/adriannagracem\">twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);flex-basis:45%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1772\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adriannamichell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/260319000062950017-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-539\" style=\"width:419px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adriannamichell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/260319000062950017-scaled.jpg 1772w, https:\/\/www.adriannamichell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/260319000062950017-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.adriannamichell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/260319000062950017-709x1024.jpg 709w, https:\/\/www.adriannamichell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/260319000062950017-768x1110.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.adriannamichell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/260319000062950017-1063x1536.jpg 1063w, https:\/\/www.adriannamichell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/260319000062950017-1417x2048.jpg 1417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1772px) 100vw, 1772px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top: -12vw;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" style=\"height: 122px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-794e3cfa wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(0.875rem, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.353), 1.1rem);\">Adrianna is originally from Hamilton, ON. She now lives in Toronto with her two cats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adriannamichell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/85D5A9EE-2121-45FA-8560-E00A21C08EC5-1024x679.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-161\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5080725478362877;width:308px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adriannamichell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/85D5A9EE-2121-45FA-8560-E00A21C08EC5-1024x679.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adriannamichell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/85D5A9EE-2121-45FA-8560-E00A21C08EC5-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.adriannamichell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/85D5A9EE-2121-45FA-8560-E00A21C08EC5-768x509.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.adriannamichell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/85D5A9EE-2121-45FA-8560-E00A21C08EC5-1536x1018.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.adriannamichell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/85D5A9EE-2121-45FA-8560-E00A21C08EC5-2048x1358.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" style=\"height: 27px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrianna Michell is a researcher, literary critic, and educator. 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