Alexander Sarra-Davis is a PhD candidate in the University of Toronto’s Department of English, where he studies the intersection of global anglophone writing, experimental fiction, and questions of authorial ethics. He has presented at conferences ranging from the Modern Language Association to the International Society for the Study of Narrative, and is currently employed as a course instructor for effective writing at UTSC. He works on the novels of J. M. Coetzee, Ruth Ozeki, and Salvador Plascencia—transnational authors who struggle to locate their character selves within geographic, racial, and cultural borders.