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Deadline: August 15, 2025 (Pacific Time) Submission length: 7,000-8,000 words (including works cited and notes) in either English or French Guest Editors: Zishad Lak (Trent University), Cheryl Lousley (Lakehead University), Paul Barrett (University of Guelph), Cheryl Cowdy (York University) Canadian fiction, film, and television increasingly abound with representations of suburban life, such as Sort Of, co-created by and starring…
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STUDIES IN SOCIAL JUSTICE—NEW ISSUE PUBLISHED (VOL 18, NO. 4) The issue is titled “Vol. 18 No. 4 (2024): Reckoning, Repairing, Reworlding: The (In)humanities, Artistic Practices, and Planetary Crisis” and is guest edited by The Reckoning, Repairing, and Reworlding Collective (Jesse Arsenault, Tayah Clarke, Linzey Corridon, Feisal Kirumira, Susie O’Brien, Jane Sewali-Kirumira, Susan Spearey (co-ordinating editor), Helene…
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Suburb Nation: Canadian Literature & Suburban Spaces is a series of short papers discussing how Canadian literature reflects and shapes our understanding of suburban life. This in-person event will take place at the University of Guelph’s THINC Lab (second floor of McLaughlin Library), where we’ll discuss contemporary Canadian literature in relation to environment, race, and settler…
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ABSTRACT “In this photo essay, we take readers through ecologies of de/colonization that we engage with in our creative methodology of walking and talking. As academics called upon to do equity, diversity and decolonization work in colonial institutions, we reflect on our location in lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ lands (“Victoria, BC, Canada”) and the circuits that…
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Call for Papers for a special issue of Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies Volume 15 (2026) Guest Editors: Susie O’Brien, Samuel Ikueze and Zahra Tootonsab (Deadline: April 30, 2025) DOWNLOAD PDF “As we build a vision of Canada, let’s make sure it has more Canada in it”. Under this headline,…
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This panel focuses on what might be metaphorically described as the externalities—extra-national side effects—of the production (ecological, cultural, political, technological, economic) of Canada as a settler colonial nation. More broadly, it aims to illuminate material relations that exceed the country’s territorial boundaries through atmospheric, oceanic, and other planetary systems, as well as the offshoring of…
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Susie O’Brien’s What the World Might Look Like: Decolonial Stories of Resilience and Refusal (McGill-Queen’s University Press, May 2024) exposes the complexities and limits of resilience and questions the concept of resilience, highlighting how Black and Indigenous novelists can offer different decolonial ways of thinking about and with resilience to imagine things “otherwise.”
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When: May 7, 2024 – 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Where: McMaster University, ISS Ceremonial Room – LRW 1811 Restoring Relations Through Stories: From Dinétah to Denèndeh (University of Regina Press, May 2024) introduces, synthesizes, and analyzes traditional stories by Diné and Dene storytellers in orature and film. The book conceptualizes narrative autonomy as hane’tonomy and visual…
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If Canada is a suburban nation, what are its suburban stories? What dreams and diasporas land immigrant communities in suburbs?
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This three-day panel at the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) is on methods of reading literary texts that illuminate the racialized dimensions of the environment and climate change.
