Freya Abbas is a DPhil student in English. Her work is on seventeenth-century perceptions of Native American languages. She is interested in colonial linguistic encounters with Algonquian languages that occurred in contexts such as the Roanoke Colony, the Virginia Colony, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She is also interested in colonial interpretations of the myth of Babel, especially among the New England Puritans. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Toronto.
