Linguistics graduate student Vanja Vekic presented her research "Harry Potter and the Existential There" at the 2024 SFU Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) Finals on April 4th. 

Vanja's research aims to unite linguistics, creative writing, and translation by studying the use of English existentials in the Harry Potter series. She also studied the ways that existentals are used in the translations of this series into French, Mandarin, and Serbian.

Check out the video!