We are thrilled to announce the arrival of Canadian Literature, issue 254. This special issue on Feminist Critique Here and Now is guest edited by Aubrey Hanson and Heather Milne. In their editorial, Aubrey and Heather write: In recent years, feminism has taken on new urgency in the wake of #ubcAccountable and #MeToo; movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #IdleNoMore have drawn renewed attention to the importance of intersectional feminism; and the covid-19 pandemic has focused attention on questions of class, gender, immigration status, precarity, mental health, and disability rights. These e ..read more

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We are thrilled to announce the arrival of Canadian Literature, issue 253. This special issue on Poetics and Extraction follows issue 251 on the same theme, guest edited by Melanie Dennis Unrau and Max Karpinski. For this issue, guest editor Max Karpinski writes in his editorial: Across Turtle Island, this summer has felt like something different and unusual—or, perhaps, something intensified. After the smoke of early June, the first week of July was named the world’s hottest on record; in late July, ocean surface temperatures off the coast of Newfoundland approached ten degrees centigrade a ..read more

Y-Dang Troeung, who passed away at the end of 2022, was always attentive to her own construction as a scholar, writer, and public intellectual. For Y-Dang, these positions were deeply imbricated with her experiences as a refugee, daughter, and mother shaped by the difficult histories of war, genocide, displacement, and resettlement. Y-Dang consistently wove the personal, historical, and political into her wide-ranging work, which included scholarly writings, memoirs, and film. She left behind a small but impactful archive: the academic book Refugee Lifeworlds: the Afterlife of the Cold War in ..read more

Rūta Šlapkauskaitė is an Associate Professor of English literature at Vilnius University, Lithuania. Her research interests include Canadian and Australian literature, neo-Victorianism, and environmental humanities. Among her recent publications are “An Ecology of the Hewn in Susan Vreeland’s The Forest Lover” in the collective monograph The Northern Forests co-published by the University of Tartu and Montreal’s Imaginaire Nord; “The He(A)rt of the Witness: Remembering Australian Prisoners of War in Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North” in Anglica: An International Journal of E ..read more

Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Louis M. Maraj thinks, creates, and converses with theoretical black studies, rhetoric, digital media, and critical pedagogies. His projects specifically address anti/racism, anti/blackness, and expressive form. Maraj’s Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics received the 2022 CCCC Outstanding Book Award and NCA’s Critical and Cultural Studies Division 2022 Outstanding Book Award. His essays appear in several journals and edited collections, including most recently in Women’s Studies in Communication, Digital Humanities Quarterly, and A Socially Just Classroom ..read more

Melanie Dennis Unrau is a settler of mixed European ancestry living on Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg. Melanie is a Research Affiliate and Visiting Fellow at the University of Manitoba. She is the author of the poetry chapbook The Goose (above/ground, 2023) and the poetry collection Happiness Threads (Muses’ Company, 2013), a co-editor of Seriality and Texts for Young People: The Compulsion to Repeat (Palgrave, 2014), and a former editor of The Goose journal and Geez magazine. Her forthcoming book The Rough Poets: Petropoetics and the Tradition of Canadian Oil-Worker Poetry is on contract with ..read more

We are thrilled to announce the arrival of Canadian Literature, Issue 252. For this general issue, Sharon Engbrecht (Marketing, Outreach, & Communications Coordinator) and Sarah-Nelle Jackson (Assistant to Editor-in-Chief) write in their editorial: When our Editor-in-Chief Christine Kim graciously agreed to let Sarah-Nelle and me write this editorial, she was interested in our perspective as graduate students on the production of Canadian Literature. As PhD candidates in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia (UBC), we bring different expe ..read more

Kyle Gervais is a Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Western Ontario in London, where he lives with his husband and two cats. His academic work focuses on Classical Latin poetry and its reception from late antiquity to the modern day. He has original poems and translations published in Arion, Literary Imagination, PRISM international, and elsewhere. Read his poem on our website: Said the Vines Canadian Literature issue 250 is available to order through our online store at https://canlit.ca/support/purchase/single-issues ..read more

Nina Berkhout is the author of three novels, most recently Why Birds Sing (ECW Press), which appeared in France this year and which was named a “must read” by The Globe and Mail and the Ottawa Citizen, a Best Book of the Year (Canada) by Amazon’s Audible audiobooks, and a Great Group Reads by the Women’s National Book Association (USA). The book has been optioned by Mountain Goat Film. Her young adult novel The Mosaic was nominated for the White Pine Award and the Ottawa Book Awards and named an Indigo Best Teen Book, and her novel The Gallery of Lost Species was named an Indigo and Kobo Best ..read more