Pavlina Radia
Influential Leader
Dr. Pavlina Radia is Provost and Vice-President, Academic at The University of Winnipeg. She was previously Dean and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, Associate Dean, and Professor in English Studies at Nipissing University, where she was also the co-founder and director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Arts and Sciences. Her focus is on interdisciplinary research, teaching and research excellence, Indigenous achievement and success, and equity, diversity, and inclusion. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Toronto. She also earned a Certificate in Human Rights for Education Professionals from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. She is a member of the Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada (SWAAC). She served on the Executive of the SWAAC and was a member of the SWAAC Subcommittee on EDI. Dr. Radia has been a life-long advocate of positive change, social justice, human rights, and inclusive leadership. With her UWinnipeg team, in March 2025, she convened the annual West VAC/West VPR leadership conference, “The University of Tomorrow: Confident Pluralisms, Diverse Spaces, and New Technologies.”
Dr. Radia’s publications include 2 monographs, 2 co-edited monographs, numerous chapters, over 20 articles in scholarly journals, keynote presentations, and other creative collaborations. Dr. Radia is the author of Nomadic Modernisms and Diasporic Journeys of Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles: “Two Very Serious Ladies” (2016) and Ecstatic Consumption: The Spectacle of Global Dystopia in Contemporary American Literature (2016). With Drs. Sarah F. Winters and Laurie Kruk, she also co-edited The Future of Humanity: Revisioning the Human in the Posthuman Age (2019). Her publications include a chapter on war memorials and postmemory in Mobilities, Literature, Culture (Palgrave) and a chapter in Modernist Objects (Clemson University Press). She also contributed chapters to DeLillo and the Arts (Edinburgh University Press) and Posthumanist Modernism (Brill). Dr. Radia also co-organized several international conferences, including The Future of Humanity (Nipissing University, 2016) and The Hunger Artist: Food and the Art Double Dialogue Conference (University of Toronto, 2010).