Volunteer Coordinator

Julia Sanders (she/her) is a writer and visual artist with a deep love for language, storytelling and the textures of the visual world. Her critical work centers on the value of artistic interpretation in the creation process and readerly reception of multimodal works, namely illustrated and graphic novels. In addition to serving as a volunteer coordinator for SummerWorks and Fringe, she is currently completing her doctorate in English Literature and Language at Western University, where she studies 19th-century Gothic novels and their modern illustrated adaptations. Her most recent essay, “The Composite Vision: Acts of Imagination in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome“, an analysis of the divide between male fantasy and social reality, was chosen for the 2025 Sara Marie Jones Memorial Scholarship at Western University. Julia also works as a visual artist, her illustrations having appeared in two poetry anthologies published by Black Moss Press out of Windsor, Ontario: What Time Can’t Touch and The Middle Space: Windsor’s Public Art. Between her time in Toronto and London, she serves as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Art, Media and Visual Culture. When she is not in an agenda planner, Julia loves reading and long walks on the beach.