Kiera Obbard (Contributor) Kiera Obbard is a poet and PhD candidate in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. Her SSHRC-funded project, "The Instagram Effect: Contemporary Canadian Poetry Online," examines the complex social, cultural, technological, and economic conditions that have enabled the success of social media poetry in Canada, how the technological affordances of social media platforms mediate reading and writing, and the relationship between social media poetry and data mining practices. She completed her MA in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory at McMaster University and her honours BA with a joint major in English and Communication at the University of Ottawa. She is currently a graduate research assistant for the Translating Digital Canadas project, a fellow at The Humanities Interdisciplinary Collaboration (THINC) Lab, and an editorial board member for the Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies.Sandra Djwa (Contributor) Sandra Djwa is a scholar of Canadian Literature and author of ten books, including The Politics of the Imagination: A Life of F.R. Scott (McClelland and Stewart, 1987), Professing English: A Life of Roy Daniells (University of Toronto Press, 2002), and Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K.
Page (McGill-Queen''s University Press, 2012; winner of the 2013 Governor General Award for Non-fiction). She co-founded the Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures in 1973. She has been a member of the Royal Society of Canada since 1994.Roopika Risam (Contributor) Roopika Risam is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and of Comparative Literature and Faculty of Digital Humanities and Social Engagement at Dartmouth College. She is the author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy (Northwestern University Press, 2018). Among her edited collections, The Digital Black Atlantic, part of the Debates in the Digital Humanities series, was published by University of Minnesota Press in 2021. Risam is the co-editor of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a journal offering peer review of digital scholarship, and director of the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium, a Mellon Foundation-funded initiative to support teaching and research at the intersections of ethnic studies and digital humanities. More information is available at http://roopikarisam.
com.Andrea Zeffiro (Contributor) Andrea Zeffiro is Assistant Professor in critical technology studies in the Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts and Academic Director for the Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship at McMaster University. Her work has appeared in Cultural Analytics, the Canadian Journal of Communications, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Convergence, Studies in Social Justice, and many edited collections.Deanna Fong (Contributor) Deanna Fong is a SSHRC-funded researcher at Concordia University, where she directs the digital archive of Canadian poet Fred Wah (fredwah.ca). With a team of student researchers and Systems Librarian Tomasz Neugebauer, she is working on visualizing the site''s social metadata, which represents the roles and activities that go into literary production. With Cole Mash, she is the co-editor of a forthcoming collection of essays, interviews, and art titled Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound (McGill-Queen''s University Press, 2023). Her book of interviews, Concern and Commitment: Seven Oral Histories with Innovative Vancouver Women, is forthcoming with Talonbooks (2024).
She is the literary editor at The Capilano Review.Ryan Fitzpatrick (Contributor) Ryan Fitzpatrick is a poet and researcher living in Toronto/Tkaronto. His research focuses on contemporary poetics and questions of space and intimacy. He has recently published academic articles in Studies in Canadian Literature and Canadian Literature. He is the author of four books of poetry, including Sunny Ways (Invisible 2023) and Coast Mountain Foot (Talonbooks 2021). With Deanna Fong, Janey Dodd, and others, he worked on the second iteration of the Fred Wah Digital Archive (fredwah.ca).Gregory Betts (Contributor) Gregory Betts is a scholar, editor, and experimental poet with collections published in Canada, the United States, Australia, and Ireland.
He is most acknowledged for If Language (Book*hug, 2005), a collection of paragraph-length anagrams, and The Others Raisd in Me (Pedlar, 2009), 150 poems carved out of Shakespeare''s Sonnet 150. His other books explore conceptual, collaborative, and concrete poetics. He has lectured and performed internationally, including at the Sorbonne Université, the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, the National Library of Ireland, and the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games as part of the "Cultural Olympiad," among others. He is a professor of Canadian and avant-garde literature at Brock University, where he has produced two of the most exhaustive academic studies of avant-garde writing in Canada, Avant- Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations (2013) and Finding Nothing: The VanGardes, 1959-1975 (2020), both published with University of Toronto Press. He has served as the President of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), the Craig Dobbin Professor of Canadian Studies at University College Dublin, and the Chancellor''s Chair for Research Excellence at Brock University. He is currently the curator of the bpNichol.ca Digital Archive and Associate Director of the Social Justice Research Initiative.Eric Schmaltz (Contributor) Eric Schmaltz is an academic, poet, and editor.
He holds a PhD from York University, where he studied Canadian and avant-garde literature. He is the author of Surfaces (Invisible Publishing, 2018) and several shorter creative works, including Language in Hues (Timglaset, 2021). He is also co-editor of I Want to Tell You Love by bill bissett and Milton Acorn (University of Calgary Press, 2021). His writing has appeared in Canadian Literature, English Studies in Canada, Jacket2, Bomb, The Capilano Review, and other places. A former SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, he is currently Writer-on-the-Grounds at Glendon College.Dani Spinosa (Contributor) Dani Spinosa is a poet of digital and print media, an on-again-off-again precarious professor, the managing editor of the Electronic Literature Directory, and a co-founding editor of Gap Riot Press. She has published several chapbooks of poetry, several more peer-reviewed journal articles on poetry, one long scholarly book, and one pink poetry book.Klara du Plessis (Contributor) Klara du Plessis is a FRQSC-funded, final-year PhD candidate at Concordia University, and is affiliated with the SpokenWeb research network.
An interdisciplinary project straddling English literature, curatorial studies, and performance, her doctoral work aims to schematize different modes of literary event curation and to think critically about the often-neglected labour that goes into shaping poetry reading series, whether live or in the audio archive. Her research focuses on twentieth century and contemporary Canadian poetry, and develops a research creation component called Deep Curation, an approach that places poets'' work in deliberate dialogue with each other and heightens the curator''s agency toward the poetic product. In this capacity, she has worked with an amazing array of poets, including Alexei Perry Cox and Kama La Mackerel. Klara is the author of Ekke (Palimpsest, 2018; winner of the 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial Award) and Hell Light Flesh (Palimpsest, 2020) and has also edited a book of experimental criticism based on transcription and citation with SpokenWeb and in collaboration with Emma Telaro called Quotes: Transcriptions on Listening, Sound, Agency.David Gaertner (Contributor) David Gaertner is a settler scholar and Assistant Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia and the co-director of the CEDaR Space, a community-oriented new media and digital storytelling lab. He is the author of The Theatre of Regret: Literature, Art, and the Politics of Reconciliation in Canada (University of British Columbia Press, 2020), the editor of Sôhkêyihta: The Poetry of Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2018), and co-editor of Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2017). Mark V. Campbell (Contributor) Mark V.
Campbell is a DJ, scholar, and curator. His research explores the relationships between Afrosonic innovations, hip-hop archives, and notions of the human. Mark is currently the principal investigator in the SSHRC-funded research project Hip-Hop Archives: The Poetics and Potentials of Knowledge Production and founder at Northside Hip-Hop Archives. His recent books include the monograph AfroSonic Life (Bloomsbury, 2022), the co-edited collection of essays We Still Here: Hip Hop in North of the 49th Parallel (McGill-Queen''s University Press, 2020), and his collection Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production (University of Chicago Press, 2023), co-edited with Murray Forman. He is Assistant Professor of Music and Culture at the University of Toronto Scarborough and holds research fellow positions with the Laboratory for Artistic Intelligence and the Research Centre for Music, Sound and Society in Canada.Jon Saklofske (Contributor) Jon Saklofske, Literature Professor at Acadia University, is insatiably curious about intersections between media forms and cultural perceptions. In addition to experimenting with virtual environments and games as tools for academic research, communication, and pedagogy, Jon''s other research and research-creation interests include environmental storytelling in theme parks, values-based game design, alternative platforms for open social scholarship, and the critical potential of feminist war g.