Leanna Thomas is a white settler doctoral candidate at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. Through funding from a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier scholarship she is comparing how twentieth-century literature has contributed to creating historical narratives of resilience and survival for francophone communities under colonialism in Atlantic Canada and the Caribbean. Prior to attending UNB, she studied Acadians’ resettlement in Louisiana following their Deportation from Canada at the University of Central Florida, and she has articles featured in Louisiana History, Acadiensis, and Small Axe.