Kit Dobson

Kit Dobson is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. Kit serves as the Primary Investigator of the SSHRC-funded project Literary Biodiversities in Western Canada. His most recent book, Field Notes on Listening, was listed as one of the CBC top nonfiction books of 2022. His next book, his first novel, is entitled We Are Already Ghosts and is scheduled for publication in 2024.


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There's Smoke
By Kit Dobson
Published in Concepts of Vancouver: Poetics, Art, Media Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 235 (Winter 2017): 143-144.
  • The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of Our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational by Elaine Dewar
Flowing Across Borders
By Kit Dobson
Published in Asian Canadian Critique Beyond the Nation. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 227 (Winter 2015): 138-40.
  • Skeena by Sarah de Leeuw
  • perpetual by Rita Wong and Cindy Mochizuki (Illustrator)
  • Limbinal by Oana Avasilichioaei
The Poetics of Everyday Life
By Kit Dobson
Published in Recursive Time. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 222 (Autumn 2014): 148-50.
  • What Lies Behind by Luann Hiebert (Author)
  • Skein of Days by Sonja Greckol (Author)
  • Monkey Soap by Glen Downie (Author)
Pomo Redux
By Kit Dobson
Published in Spectres of Modernism. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 209 (Summer 2011): 180-182.
  • RE: Reading the Postmodern by Robert David Stacey
Novel Ideas
By Kit Dobson
Published in Spectres of Modernism. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 209 (Summer 2011): 174-176.
  • The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
  • The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb
Studying Canadian Studies
By Kit Dobson
Published in Canadian Literature 206 (Autumn 2010): 171-172.
  • Canadian Cultural Studies by Sourayan Mookerjea, Imre Szeman and Gail Faurschou
Comparative History and Quebec
By Kit Dobson
Published in Queerly Canadian. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 205 (Summer 2010): 132-133.
  • The Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New World by Gérard Bouchard, Michelle Weinroth and Paul Leduc Browne
Indigenous Defamiliarizations
By Kit Dobson
Published in Strategic Nationalisms. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 200 (Spring 2009): 189-191.
  • From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing by Deena Rymhs (Author)
  • Taxidermic Signs: Reconstructing Aboriginality by Pauline Wakeham
  • Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal: Cultural Practices and Decolonization in Canada by Julia V. Emberley
Global Communities?
By Kit Dobson
Published in Strategic Nationalisms. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 200 (Spring 2009): 131-133.
  • Renegotiating Community: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts by William D. Coleman and Diana Brydon
  • A Report on the Afterlife of Culture by Stephen Henighan
Alpha Beta Gammas
By Kit Dobson
Published in Predators and Gardens. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 197 (Summer 2008): 171-172.
  • The Alphabet Game by bp Nichol, Lori Emerson and Darren Wershler-Henry
Writing Across the Borders
By Kit Dobson
Published in Predators and Gardens. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 197 (Summer 2008): 164-166.
  • The Unfortunate Marriage of Azeb Yitades by Nega Mezlekia
  • Soucouyant by David Chariandy
  • The Assassin's Song by M. G. Vassanji
Radical Poetics
By Kit Dobson
Published in South Asian Diaspora. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 190 (Autumn 2006): 117-118.
  • Writing in Our Time: Canada’s Radical Poetries in English (1957-2003) by Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy
Preliminary Nichols
By Kit Dobson
Published in Gendering the Archive. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 217 (Summer 2013): 148-50.
  • aka bpNichol: a preliminary biography by Frank Davey

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