Ferron Guerreiro

Ferron Guerreiro, BA (Hons)
Valedictorian

An award winner and creative writer, Ferron Guerreiro has a passion for English. Before finding her way at UWinnipeg, she studied theatre at a conservatory in New York City. One of her professors described her as “a talented writer with a professional attitude toward her work.”

Guerreiro has an interest in early modern English literature that covers 16^th– and 17^th-century texts, which she enjoys for its absurdity and complex human interaction, and has a particular research interest in the religious and cultural significance of sexually chaste women of this time period.

As an active creative writer, she has already published in UWinnipeg’s Juice Journal and served as a practicum student with Prairie Fire, a Canadian Magazine of New Writing. She has a deep and varied interest in literature as a living art and enjoys experimenting with language: “Fiction is a great way to work through questions about identity and purpose,” she said.

Between classes, Guerreiro found time to participate in UWinnipeg’s English Literature Students Association (ELSA), which helps build collegiality among students and faculty, and is an important resource for English students.

Guerreiro will head to Halifax this fall to pursue a Master of Arts degree at Dalhousie University. She will continue her creative writing, in addition to academic work analyzing the effect of the English Reformation on literary constructions of femininity. She aims to attain a PhD and teach what she loves: English.