RE: Reading the Postmodern: Canadian Literature and Criticism after Modernism

Contributor Biographies

359 Contributor biograPHies gregory betts is an associate professor of Canadian Literature at Brock University. Editor of two previous books of Canadian modernist poetry, his scholarly edition of Bertram Brooker’s stories, essays, and manifestos was published by the University of Ottawa Press in 2009. His essays have appeared in journals such as Studies in Canadian Literature, Essays on Canadian Writing, and many others. He has three books of poetry: If Language (BookThug, 2005), The Others Raised in Me (Pedlar Press, 2009), and Psychic Geographies and other Topics (Quattro Books, 2010). Jennifer bLair is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa, specializing in Canadian Literature. Her recent publications include essays in English Studies in Canada and Feminist Media Studies. She is also a coeditor of ReCalling Early Canada: Reading the Political in Literary and Cultural Production (University Alberta Press, 2005). contRibutoR biogRaphiES 360 CHristian bök is the author of the bestselling Eunoia (Coach House Books, 2001), winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002. Bök is an internationally renowned advocate of avant-garde poetry and currently teaches as an associate professor of English at the University of Calgary. deboraH C. bowen is an associate professor of English at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario. Her monograph on ethics in contemporary Canadian and British fiction, Stories of the Middle Space: Postmodern Realisms Face to Face with the World, was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2010; she is editor of The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity: Literature and the Christian Critic (Cambridge Scholars, 2007). PauLine butLing is Professor Emerita from the Alberta College of Art & Design. She is currently writing a memoir. Previous publications include Seeing in the Dark: The Poetry of Phyllis Webb (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997) (with Susan Rudy ), Writing in Our Time: Canada’s Radical Poetries in English (1957–2003) (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005) and Poets Talk: Conversations with Robert Kroetsch, Daphne Marlatt, Erin Mouré, Dionne Brand, Marie Annharte Baker, Jeff Derksen, and Fred Wah (University of Alberta Press, 2005). stePHen Cain is an associate professor in the School of Arts and Letters, York University, and is the co-author, with Tim Conley, of The Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages (Greenwood Press, 2006). He was the editor of a special issue of Open Letter on “The Little Literary Serial in Canada (1980– 2000)” and his academic articles have appeared in Studies in Canadian Literature, Canadian Literature, Open Letter, and as chapters in the books Sound As Sense, The Canadian Modernists Meet, Antiphonies: Essays on Women’s Experimental Poetries in Canada, and State of the Arts: Living With Culture in Toronto. contRibutoR biogRaphiES 361 adam Carter is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Lethbridge. He specializes in critical theory with related interests in Romantic and Canadian criticism and literatures. His recent research focuses on the intersections of nationalism and aesthetic theory. He is currently working on a sshrc-funded project on Northrop Frye’s Canadian criticism in relation to other traditions of theorizing national literatures. frank davey is professor emeritus of Canadian Literature at the University of Western Ontario. Editor-in-Chief of Open Letter, which he founded in 1965, he is the author of numerous books and essays on Canadian literature, including Surviving the Paraphrase (Turnstone Press, 1983), Reading Canadian Reading (Turnstone Press, 1988), Post-National Arguments: The Politics of the Anglophone-Canadian Novel Since 1967 (University of Toronto Press, 1993), and Canadian Literary Power (NeWest Press, 1994). Linda HutCHeon is professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. She is author of A Poetics of Postmodernism : History, Theory, Fiction (Routledge, 1988), The Politics of Postmodernism (Routledge, 1989), and The Canadian Postmodern (Oxford University Press, 1988), the twentienth anniversary of which greatly inspired the symposium upon which the present volume is based. Her most recent book is A Theory of Adaptation (Routledge, 2006.) robert kroetsCH is a celebrated novelist and poet and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. Founding co-editor (with William Spanos) of boundary 2: a journal of postmodern literature, his poems, novels, essays, and interviews have been instrumental in the development of a Canadian tradition of postmodern writing and criticism. contRibutoR biogRaphiES 362 aLeXander maCLeod is an assistant professor of Canadian Literature at St. Mary’s University. He has published widely on Canadian literary topics, including articles on the work of Clarke...