Kit Dobson

January 29, 2015

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.


Works by Kit Dobson

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Book Reviews by Kit Dobson

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
Non-Fiction business publishing industry
Shadow Sides
By Kit Dobson
Published in Emerging Scholars. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 226 (Autumn 2015): 157-59.
  • Martin John by Anakana Shofield
  • Sleep by Nino Ricci
British Columbia Poetry Romanian Canadian
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
Contemporary Fiction Home & Family
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
Literary Criticism
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
Novel
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
Canadian Studies Cultural Studies
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
Architecture Cultural Studies Multiculturalism Native Studies
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
Native Studies
Bushed, Whacked, and on the Road
By Kit Dobson
Published in Diasporic Women’s Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 196 (Spring 2008): 126-127.
  • Orphan Love by Nadia Bozak
Canadian Studies Cultural Studies
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
Twenty-First Century
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
From Dar es Salaam to Bombay to Calgary
By Kit Dobson
Published in Gabrielle Roy contemporaine/The Contemporary Gabrielle Roy. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 192 (Spring 2007): 145-147.
  • Baby Khaki's Wings by Anar Ali
  • The Song of Kahunsha by Anosh Irani
Indian/South Asian Urban Novel
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
Afro-Canadian Indian/South Asian Novel Short Fiction
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
Poetry Publishing

Articles by Kit Dobson

Indigeneity and Diversity in Eden Robinson's Work
By Kit Dobson
Published in Disappearance and Mobility. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 201 (Summer 2009): 54-67.
Quebec

Book Reviews of Kit Dobson's Works

All the Feels: Affect and Writing in Canada / Tous les sens : affect et écriture au Canada
By Marie Carrière, Ursula Mathis-Moser and Kit Dobson
Reviewed in Feeling It All by Rachel Fernandes
Transnational Canadas
By Kit Dobson
Reviewed in Positioning Globality by Meagan Dallimore
Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace
By Kit Dobson and Smaro Kamboureli
Reviewed in Undisciplining CanLit by Brendan McCormack
Asian American Asian Canadian Globalization Literary Criticism Transnationalism