Shauna Irani

Shauna Judith Irani recently earned her Master’s in English, specializing in Print Culture, from Simon Fraser University. She is a Research Assistant on The Embodied Humanities Project and The Lyon in Mourning Project, both led by Dr. Leith Davis. Her research focuses on trauma literature, exploring the intersections of narrative, memory, and humour. Shauna was featured on BBC Scotland in a segment highlighting Edward (Ned) Burke, an unsung hero in Scottish history.

She has presented her work on Ned Burke and The Lyon in Mourning at conferences and events across Canada and the UK, including the SFU Digital Humanities Innovation Lab’s “How Do You DH?” roundtable; the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference in Montreal; the “Networking Jacobites, 1688 to the Present” conference at the University of Guelph; and at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Humanities at Edinburgh University. She also served as a keynote speaker at the 8th Annual SFU Retirees Symposium and has spoken at community events, including ScotFest BC in 2022 and 2023.

Shauna’s publications include contributions to the International Review of Scottish Studies and a book chapter in Shaping Jacobitism: Memory, Culture, Networks (Edinburgh University Press, 2025), focusing on trauma, narrative, and digital humanities methodologies applied to historical texts.