As part of the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), which will be held in person at the Palais des congrès de Montréal, February 26 – March 1, 2026, this seminar invites papers that explore methods of reading at the intersections of race, racialization, and the escalating crises of climate change and ecological loss. Read More.
This special journal issue will examine literary approaches to suburban life in Canada across a range of mediums, genres, and periods, paying attention to the suburbs as both an imaginative and a material form. We are especially interested in considering how the mid-twentieth-century popular representation of the suburb as a white, middle-class, automobiled enclave has been written otherwise across varied experiences of racialization, diaspora, and generation—and in the era of fossil-fueled climate change. Read More.
How do artistic explorations of topics such as migrant labour, international students, and offshore extraction industries illuminate the extra-national ecologies of racial capitalism and settler colonialism? How do Canadian environmentalism and/or ecocriticism engage or obscure extra-national issues of social/environmental justice? How do environmental, industry and energy policies naturalize and regulate cross-border relations in support of settler colonialism and racial capitalism? Read more.