Colin Buist

PhD Candidate
colin.buist@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Aesthetics
  • Queer theory
  • North American
  • Modern/Contemporary

Working Dissertation

Title

Love, Robert Blanchon

Supervisors

John Paul Ricco

Biography

Colin is a writer who lives in Toronto. His dissertation is on Robert Blanchon.

Honours, Awards & Grants

  • Conference Grant. School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, 2023.
  • Teaching Assistant Award for Excellence in Art History. Department of Visual Studies, University of Toronto, Mississauga, 2022.

Education

MA, Art History, University of Toronto, 2021
BA, Art History, Theory and Criticism, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020

Presentations

“Ignorant Love,” Unlovable, The Centre for Comparative Literature’s 31st Annual Conference, Toronto, ON., Canada. 25 March 2023.
“Is the Stomach a Grave?,” Bersani and Art, American Comparative Literature Association, Chicago, IL. 17 March 2023.
“Doing Away and Letting Be” [paper on Leo Bersani and Michael Vahrenwald's photographic series, Universal Default, 2005-06], Exhaust(ion), University of Toronto Graduate English Association, Toronto, ON., Canada. 22 April 2022.
“Touching Queer Faith” [paper on Ross Bleckner's painting, Hands and Faces, 1993, and John Dugdale's cyanotype, Christ our Liberator, 1999], Touch me (not): Making Contact, Berkley/Stanford Symposium, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA. 8 May 2021.
“Toward an Inoperative Method of Queer Theory,” Arts of Inoperativity, American Comparative Literature Association, Montréal, QC., Canada. 9-11 April 2021.

Cohort

  • 2021-2022