{"id":2,"date":"2026-07-14T09:34:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/beens\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:51:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:51:52","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/beens\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/beens\/files\/2026\/07\/1000042804-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Sophie Been\" width=\"157\" height=\"247\" class=\"wp-image-7 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/beens\/files\/2026\/07\/1000042804-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/beens\/files\/2026\/07\/1000042804-652x1024.jpg 652w, https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/beens\/files\/2026\/07\/1000042804-768x1207.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/beens\/files\/2026\/07\/1000042804-977x1536.jpg 977w, https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/beens\/files\/2026\/07\/1000042804-1303x2048.jpg 1303w, https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/beens\/files\/2026\/07\/1000042804-640x1006.jpg 640w, https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/beens\/files\/2026\/07\/1000042804-940x1477.jpg 940w, https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/beens\/files\/2026\/07\/1000042804-scaled.jpg 1629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sophie Been (she\/her)<\/p>\n<p>Contract Academic Staff<br \/>\nDepartment of English, Drama &amp; Creative Writing<br \/>\n&#x42;&#x65;&#101;&#110;S&#x40;&#x62;&#x72;&#97;&#110;d&#x6f;&#x6e;&#x75;&#46;&#99;a<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research and teaching interests<\/strong><br \/>\nContemporary Literature; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Queer Theory; Life Writing (specifically memoir and autoethnography); Canadian Literature; Ecocriticism.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><br \/>\nI am currently a PhD Candidate in English Literature at Queen\u2019s University in Kingston, Ontario. I previously received my Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in English from Queen\u2019s University and completed my BA (Hons.) at Brandon University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courses<\/strong><br \/>\n30:145 Contemporary Literature &#8211; Fall 2026, Winter 2027<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophie Been (she\/her) Contract Academic Staff Department of English, Drama &amp; Creative Writing &#x42;&#x65;&#101;n&#x53;&#x40;&#98;&#114;a&#x6e;&#x64;&#111;&#110;u&#x2e;&#x63;&#97; Research and teaching interests Contemporary Literature; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Queer Theory; Life Writing (specifically memoir and autoethnography); Canadian Literature; Ecocriticism. &nbsp; Education I am currently a PhD Candidate in English Literature at Queen\u2019s University in Kingston, Ontario. I previously received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/beens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/beens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/beens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/beens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/beens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/beens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/beens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/beens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/beens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}