The Channel’s editorial board is selected from undergraduate students in McGill’s Department of English. Editors collectively read, discuss, and select essays for publication.
Editors-in-Chief
Rachel Barker is a U2 Honours Art History major with minors in English Literature and French. She champions the work of Marilynne Robinson and continually finds herself drawn to texts written in the literary modernist tradition. Rachel enjoys perusing art galleries around Montréal and is particularly fond of listening to classic rock while doing so.
Lydia Lepki is a U2 English Literature major with minors in Linguistics and Classics. Her current interests include poetry from the Restoration period and 20th-century autofiction. Lydia also enjoys figure skating, watching movies with shocking plot twists, and chipping away at her devastatingly long Goodreads TBR.
AnnaClare Sung (she/her) is a U3 Honours English Cultural Studies major with a minor in Communication Studies. She is currently writing her honours essay on middlebrow reading practices in the contemporary American campus novel. AnnaClare is an avid ballet dancer, and you can often find her perusing Netflix or cooking one of the three meals in her repertoire.
Editors
Tina Barbusci is a U4 English Literature Major with a Russian Studies Minor. She really loves Victorian Era literature, especially works by Thomas Hardy. While she love Victorian works, “Milton” was her favorite ENGL course because “Paradise Lost” is truly a masterpiece. Finally, she has recently discovered the band “Catfish and the Bottlemen” and they are criminally underrated. Highly recommend!
Sara Belmore (she/her) is a U2 English Literature student with minors in Cultural Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and, Feminist Studies. When she’s not reading Victorian poetry and contemporary fiction, you can find her skiing, planning her Halloween costumes, planning Halloween parties, and essentially pretending it’s Halloween year-round.
Cello Corbanese is a U3 English Literature student with a minor in History. He loves everything Toni Morrison and is currently writing his Honours thesis on the relationship between motherhood and place in Beloved. In his free time, he enjoys reading (believe it or not!), watching old sci-fi flicks, and playing the Sims 4 for 16 hours straight.
Sophie Gallaher is a U3 Honours English Literature student with a minor in Jewish Studies. She is currently writing her Honours essay on W.B. Yeats, Qabalah, modernism, and rhythm. In her free time, she enjoys writing poetry and watching deep dives on early 2000s pop culture.
Natalie Hrga is a U2 Computer Science major with a minor in English Literature. She enjoys literature from the Romantic Era and John Milton’s Paradise Lost, but mainly reads any contemporary fiction. When not reading, you can probably find her rewatching Normal People or The Hunger Games for the hundredth time.
Alice Kreinin (she/her) is a U2 English major and Communications minor. She loves Gothic literature, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and drinking incalculable amounts of tea (caffeinated). Alice has recently taken to consulting her tarot cards about her schoolwork in lieu of attending office hours.
Isabelle Lamont-Lennox (she/her) is a U3 English Literature major with a double minor in Communications and Cultural Studies. Her current areas of interest include feminist literary criticism and critical media theory. Recently, she has been enjoying reading contemporary memoirs, watching classic films and hiking up Mount Royal.
Anna Roberts is a U3 English Literature student with minors in Psychology and Art History. Her current interests are in contemporary American and Canadian fiction as well as literary institutions. In her free time, Anna enjoys hiking, oil painting, and watching bad TV shows with her friends.
Jacob Sponga is an Honours English Literature major with a minor in European Literature & Culture. He is interested in American (transatlantic) modernism and the sociology of reading. In his free time, Jacob gardens, studies logic, and contributes to The Cantos Project.
Olivia Wigod is a U2 English literature major. She is an avid reader of contemporary and literary fiction with an interest in Victorian poetry. When not reading (a rarity), Olivia is probably rewatching Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of “Little Women” for the hundredth time.
Elisia Wong is in U2 doing a Joint Honours English Literature and Political Science. Her interests are in rhetoric and feminist writing, theoretical writing, and reading poetry. Elisia is a figure skater and enjoys playing sports when not puzzling over Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindications.