Smaro Kamboureli

January 29, 2015

Smaro Kamboureli is professor of Canadian literatures at the University of Toronto. Her most recent publication is Land Relations: Possibilities of Justice in Canadian Literatures (2023), which she co-edited with Larissa Lai. She is currently at work on a book on Inuit literariness, focusing on Isuma films.


Works by Smaro Kamboureli

Book ReviewsArticlesEditorialsBook Reviews of Author

Book Reviews by Smaro Kamboureli

Record of Writing
By Smaro Kamboureli
Published in Letters & Other Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 134 (Autumn 1992): 99-101.
  • Sticks & Stones by George Bowering
  • A Record of Writing: An Annotated and Illustrated Bibliography of George Bowering by Roy Miki
Asian Canadian
No-Hed-Trois
By Smaro Kamboureli
Published in Background, Foreground. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 127 (Winter 1990): 173-178.
  • Liberté by Jacques Bouchard (Editor)
  • Liturgy of Light by Stavros Tsimicalis
Bibliography Poetry
Ear & Eye
By Smaro Kamboureli
Published in Documenting the Landscape / Notes on Sinclair Ross. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 103 (Winter 1984): 138-141.
  • The Tyrian Veil by Kenneth Banks
  • A Minor Operation by Phil Hall (Author)
  • Seven Robins by Neile Graham (Author)
  • Stranded in Terra by Deborah Godin
  • Fire Before Dark by George McWhirter
Literary Criticism Poetry

Articles by Smaro Kamboureli

Stealing the Text: George Bowering's "Kerrisdale Elegies" and Dennis Cooley's "Bloody Jack"
By Smaro Kamboureli
Published in Poets’ Words. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 115 (Winter 1987): 9-23.
Language/Linguistics Poetry francophone

Editorials by Smaro Kamboureli

Disappearance and Mobility: A TransCanada Institute Issue
By Smaro Kamboureli
Published in Disappearance and Mobility. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 201 (Summer 2009): 6-13.

Book Reviews of Smaro Kamboureli's Works

Editing as Cultural Practice in Canada
By Dean Irvine and Smaro Kamboureli
Reviewed in Canadian Editing, America Pressures by James Gifford
Memory Serves: Oratories
By Lee Maracle and Smaro Kamboureli
Reviewed in Oratories Serve by Susan Gingell
Canadian Studies
Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture
By Barbara Thomson Godard and Smaro Kamboureli
Reviewed in Living On by Lorraine Weir
Indigenous History Indigenous Literature Memory & Identity Oral
Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature
By Roy Miki and Smaro Kamboureli
Reviewed in CanLit Inter-nationally by Debra Dudek
Literary Theory
Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada
By Smaro Kamboureli
Reviewed in Nation/Transnation by Guy Beauregard
Canadian Studies Postcolonialism Short Fiction
Making a Difference: Canadian Multicultural Literature
By Smaro Kamboureli
Reviewed in Disaplacements by Sherry Simon
Asian American Diaspora Gender Literary Criticism Transnationalism
A Mazing Space: Writing Canadian Women Writing
By Smaro Kamboureli and Shirley Neuman
Reviewed in Women & Les Mots by Coral Ann Howells
Canadian Studies Multiculturalism
Retooling the Humanities: The Culture of Research in Canadian Universities
By Smaro Kamboureli and Daniel Coleman
Reviewed in Why Study the Humanities? by Nathalie Cooke
Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Study
By Robert Zacharias and Smaro Kamboureli
Reviewed in Undisciplining CanLit by Brendan McCormack
Twentieth Century
Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace
By Kit Dobson and Smaro Kamboureli
Reviewed in Undisciplining CanLit by Brendan McCormack
Canadian Studies Literary Criticism
My Beloved Wager: Essays from a Writing Practice
By Smaro Kamboureli and Erín Mouré
Reviewed in The Daring Wager by Linda Quirk
Canadian Studies Literary Criticism
Imaginary Hand
By George Bowering and Smaro Kamboureli
Reviewed in Language Women by Jeanette Lynes
Essays Literary Criticism Poetry Women's Studies