Mackenzie Ashcroft (she/her) is a first-year MA student at the University of British Columbia. She earned her BA in English, with an embedded certificate in creative writing, from the University of Calgary. Mackenzie’s research interests lie in the intersection of nineteenth-century literature and disability studies. More specifically, she is interested in examining the place of disabled bodies and voices in Victorian literature, and their representations in contemporary speculative fiction genres, such as Steampunk. Her SSHRC-funded research aims to reconcile studies of disability, literature, and technology to explore the contemporary ramifications of developing prosthetic voices. Alongside this study of non-normative speech, Mackenzie is further interested in book and media history, literary theory, and gender and sexuality studies, and their interplay within both the fin de siècle and our contemporary moment