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Canadian Literature aims to foster a wider academic interest in the Canadian literary field, and publishes a wide range of material from Canadian and international scholars, writers, and poets. Each issue contains a variety of critical articles, an extensive book reviews section, and a selection of original poetry.
Canlit.ca's Online Exclusives section offers supplementary content like Interviews with Canadian authors and poets, our databases of Canadian scholars, Canadian publishers, and Canadian Literary Magazines/Journals; and Letters & Reflections—a place for commentary that is not published in the print journal.
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Doctoral Student Position at Canadian Literature
May 9, 2012
CanLit Guides Coordinator
Canadian Literature (CL) is in the second year of developing an online resource guide on Canadian literature for classroom use. CanLit Guides (CLG) offers a modular approach to learning about both classic and contemporary Canadian literature, drawing extensively from CL’s archives. CLG is an ongoing project, but as part of the development phase, CL is looking for a doctoral student to assist with the transition of the project into the third year. The duties of this position will be assisting to refine and expand CLG. This position will involve research and writing, as well as the integration, implementation, and evaluation of CLG in UBC classrooms.
Duties:
- proofread CLG before release for classroom use in September;
- create a student evaluation survey, conduct the survey, and compile feedback;
- co-ordinate and conduct focus groups and gather feedback from the instructors;
- analyze various assessments and data;
- attend classes to assist instructors with implementing CLG;
- participate in committee meetings to help plan expansion of CLG;
- assist with writing an interim and final report;
- assist with writing a grant application;
- communicate with web developer regarding changes to CLG;
- develop and write new modules to expand CLG.
Qualifications:
- Independent and self-motivated worker.
- UBC Doctoral Student studying in the field of Canadian or other literatures, pedagogy, rhetoric, or language.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Basic computer skills required; experience with HTML and writing for the web an asset.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Familiarity with CL and/or canlit.ca an asset.
- Some teaching and demonstrated literary research skills an asset.
- Must be able to come to the CL offices, weekly, to work.
Details:
Wage: $22.00/hr.
Position date: July 2012 to March 2013 (part-time)
There’s potential for a TA position in the Fall 2013 semester dependent upon grant funding renewal.
Application deadline: June 11, 2012
Application package to include:
- Cover letter;
- Resume;
- A 250-word original account of how to write for the web, aimed at first-year literature students and suitable for posting online.
Please send your application package to:
Donna Chin
Managing Editor
Canadian Literature, c/o UBC
6303 NW Marine Drive, Rm 8
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
For more information, contact Donna Chin at 604-822-2780 or donna.chin@ubc.ca.
Congratulations, Glenn Deer!
April 18, 2012
Congratulations to Glenn Deer for winning a Killam Teaching Prize! Glenn has been an Associate Editor at Canadian Literature since issue #165, and is the current Poetry Editor.
He was Acting Editor for issues #198 (Canadian and Its Discontents) and #199 (Asian Canadian Studies), and was the Guest Editor for #163 (Asian Canadian Writing).
Congratulations, Susan Fisher!
April 16, 2012
Congratulations to Susan Fisher for winning the 2012 Canada Prize in the Humanities, English-language category. Susan was an Associate Editor editor at Canadian Literature for issues #172 - #177, and was Acting Editor for issues #178 and #179.
21st-Century Promotional Website (Final Week)
March 19, 2012
During the four weeks prior to the release of 21st-Century Poetics (#210/211, Autumn/Winter 2011), we will be publishing an article and a poem from the issue at http://21poetics.ca. Each article and poem will only stay online for a single week, but will be available in the print issue. Visit the website to read the articles and poems, and to pre-order the issue for $20 (regular price will is $29.95).
March 19th – March 25th
- Article:
A ≠ A: The Potential for a ’Pataphysical Poetic in Dan Farrell’s The Inkblot Record
by Katie L. Price - Poem:
lustral
by Natalie Helberg
Current Issue: #210-211, 21st-Century Poetics (Autumn/Winter 2011)
March 14, 2012
Canadian Literature’s Autumn/Winter 2011 issue (CL#210/211) is now available. The issue features articles by Scott Pound, Katie L. Price, Sarah Dowling, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Susan Rudy, Sonnet L’Abbé, Alessandra Capperdoni, Meredith Quartermain, Karl Jirgens, Geordie Miller, Sean Braune, Oana Avasilichioaei, and Erín Moure, and new Canadian poetry & book reviews.
The work chosen for this collection illustrates the high quality of engagement across Canada (and beyond) of scholars and writers, often one and the same, with the practice and study of innovative or avant-garde writing.
—Clint Burnham and Christine Stewart, Afterword: 21st-Century Poetics.
Purchase this issue from our online store.
21st-Century Promotional Website (Week Three)
March 12, 2012
During the four weeks prior to the release of 21st-Century Poetics (#210/211, Autumn/Winter 2011), we will be publishing an article and a poem from the issue at http://21poetics.ca. Each article and poem will only stay online for a single week, but will be available in the print issue. Visit the website to read the articles and poems, and to pre-order the issue for $20 (regular price will is $29.95).
March 12th – March 18th
- Article:
Infiltrate as Cells
: The Biopolitically Ethical Subject of sybil unrest - Poem:
40—Shaped My Voice
by Gregory Betts
21st-Century Promotional Website (Week Two)
March 5, 2012
During the four weeks prior to the release of 21st-Century Poetics (#210/211, Autumn/Winter 2011), we will be publishing an article and a poem from the issue at http://21poetics.ca. Each article and poem will only stay online for a single week, but will be available in the print issue. Visit the website to read the articles and poems, and to pre-order the issue for $20 (regular price will is $29.95).
March 5th – March 11th
- Article:
Enantiomorphosis and the Canadian Avant-Garde: Reading Christian Bök, Darren Wershler, and Jeramy Dodds
by Sean Braune - Poem:
New York Visitation: 29 July 2009
by Stephen Collis
21st-Century Promotional Website (Week One)
February 27, 2012
Canadian Literature’s Autumn/Winter 2011 issue (#210/211), 21st-Century Poetics, is a double issue on avant-garde Canadian poetry. Guest edited by experimental poetry specialists Clint Burnham (Simon Fraser University) and Christine Stewart (University of Alberta), this issue is poised to create new dialogues on how academics study and read Canadian poetry.
The work chosen for this collection illustrates the high quality of engagement across Canada (and beyond) of scholars and writers, often one and the same, with the practice and study of innovative or avant-garde writing.
—Clint Burnham and Christine Stewart, Afterword: 21st-Century Poetics.
During the four weeks prior to the issue’s release, we will be publishing an article and a poem from the issue at http://21poetics.ca. Each article and poem will only stay online for a single week, but will be available in the print issue. Visit the website to read the articles and poems, and to pre-order the issue for $20 (regular price will is $29.95).
February 27th – March 4th
- Article:
Translation, Collaboration, and Reading the Multiple
by Oana Avasilichioaei and Erín Moure - Poem:
I thought this day would never come
by Ken Belford
Calls for Papers
January 26, 2012
Letters for Robert Kroetsch: A Special Issue on His Work and Influence
We invite you to continue the play with word and place that he introduced to Canadian literature by submitting an essay on his work to Canadian Literature. […more…]
Beyond Borders to Bioregions: Teaching and Reading Ecocritically
We seek essays, reviews, and other responses for a special issue of Canadian Literature honouring the teaching, scholarship, and example of Laurie Ricou. […more…]
Current Issue: #209, Spectres of Modernism (Summer 2011)
December 2, 2011
Canadian Literature's Summer 2011 issue (CL#209), Spectres of Modernism
, is now available. The issue features articles by Alan Filewod, Erica Kelly, Anouk Lang, Annette Hayward, Mark Benson, Len Early, Alastair Morrison, and new Canadian poetry & book reviews.
Canadian Literature’s winter 1995 “Marx and Other Dialectics” issue watched over the changing of disciplinary and literary old guards—or, if you will, an old left guard. This was the same number that announced the establishment of the journal’s home page (canlit.ca) and the creation of the Canadian Literature Discussion Group listserv (canlit-l) hosted by the National Library. It was “an hour / Of new beginnings,” as F.R. Scott said in his 1934 poem “Overture.” That same year observed the deaths of Earle Birney and George Woodcock. Dorothy Livesay passed away the year following. These deaths signaled the passing of a generation that put into practice the dialectics of modernism and political radicalism. With the appearance of an issue devoted to Marxism and Canadian literature, it may have seemed at the hour of their death that their generation’s literary and political legacies had for the moment been granted reprieves and survived the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of European communism.
—Dean Irvine, Spectres of Modernism
