Smaro Kamboureli is the Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. The author of Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada, winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Literary Criticism, she has edited and co-edited many volumes. Her most recent publications include her article “Diaspora” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature; a bilingual English/Italian edition of her 1985 poetry book, in the second person, in seconda persona; and the co-edited special issue “Literary Solidarities / Critical Accountability: A Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas Special Issue” of the University of Toronto Quarterly to which she has contributed an introduction, “Literary Solidarities: ‘Should I be here?’”