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Amy Mazowita

Amy Mazowita (she/her) is a SSHRC-funded PhD Candidate in the Department of Communication Studies. Her research is focused on representations of mental illness in comics and graphic narratives, and explores how Instagram-based comics may be used as accessible mental health resources. She studies the connections and conversations that form amongst platform users and is interested in how individuals are using ‘the comics scene’ of Instagram as a site for developing networks of self- and collective care. 

Amy is also interested in projects related to the Environmental Humanities and is working on a research-creation project titled “Life of Fire: An Ethnography of Smoke, Flame, Ash, and Earth.” This photo/life-writing series traces the affects and effects of wildfires on the landscape and communities of Manitoba’s Whiteshell Provincial Park and is part of the SSHRC-funded “Mobilizing Disability Survival Skills for the Urgencies of the Anthropocene” (MDSSA) project (PI, Arseli Dokumaci).

Amy is a 2023-2024 Concordia Public Scholar, a core member of Concordia’s Access-in-the-Making (AIM) Lab, and the Communications Representative for Concordia’s Communication Studies Doctoral Students’ Association (CDSA). She works as a TA in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia, and is a Contract Editor for Winnipeg-based publishing house Dirty Water Comics.