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vii Acknowledgements The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) provided a standard research grant with release time that helped Susan Gingell to develop the idea for The Oral, the Written, and Other Verbal Media conference, which was further supported by a SSHRC conference grant. The eVOCative! festival was also generously supported by the Canada Council and the Saskatchewan Arts Board. The pair of related events was the original impetus for a number of the papers in this collection, and we are grateful to those who helped organize these events: Azalaea Barrieses, Kevin Flynn, Neal McLeod, Brent Nelson, and Ella Ophir, who joined Susan and Wendy on the conference committee, and Theresa Cowan, Holly Luhning, Neal McLeod, and Steven Ross Smith, who joined Susan on the festival organizing group. We also thank graduate student assistants Kristen Warder, Natasha Beeds, and Amelia Horsburgh, as well as the many graduate student volunteers.Without the integrated work of both organizing groups, the conference and festival would never have taken place and this book would have been the poorer. We acknowledge and thank the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences for the grant through the Aid to Scholarly Publications Program.We also acknowledge and thank the University of Saskatchewan and a number of people there who helped ensure the success of each stage of this project. We are grateful to the University of Saskatchewan for a Publishing Subvention from the University Publications Fund. We owe a considerable debt of gratitude to Jon Bath, Meshon Cantrill, and Jeff Smith of the Humanities and Fine Arts Digital Research Centre at the University of Saskatchewan for website assistance in relation to the conference and festival and for help creating the website supplementary to this book. Thanks are also due to the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan and its former Head, Douglas Thorpe; Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Peter Stoicheff ; Sabrina Kehoe, Research Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Centre viii Acknowledgements for Culture and Creativity; the Co-Directors of the Humanities Research Unit at the University of Saskatchewan, Len Findlay and Marie Battiste; and Dwight Newman, former Dean of the College of Law, all of whom provided crucial support to the conference at critical times. We extend further thanks to colleagues who helped vet papers but must remain anonymous. Our gratitude also goes out to the readers and editors for Wilfrid Laurier University Press, whose comments helped us markedly strengthen the book. Finally, to all of the contributors who worked so diligently and patiently through the multilevel editing process, our warm appreciation and respect. ...

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