Hello! I’m Professor of English and Research Chair in Literature and Sound Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. I’ve had lots of administrative experience over the years, as Graduate Program Director (3 years), Department Chair (4 years), Associate Dean (6 years), and currently as Principal Investigator of the SSHRC SpokenWeb research partnership (going on 6 years!). This SSHRC-funded SpokenWeb partnership focuses on the history of literary sound recordings and the digital preservation and presentation of archival collections of literary audio. I have also served on numerous university and external executive committees and boards, including the Executive of the North American Victorian Studies Association, and the Quebec Writers Federation (as treasurer). So, I’ve done lots of administrative service. I love working with colleagues and I am excited to join the ACCUTE board this year as President Elect and to serve as President after that. My research expertise is in 19th-century British literature, media history, sound studies, the history of criticism, North American poetry and poetics, digital humanities, and creative writing (poetry).

I am an Assistant Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal, where I teach Contemporary Literature, specializing in British and Post-Colonial Fiction, Women’s Writing, and Environmental Writing. Lately, all of my research and graduate teaching has been on the topic of “Race and Place” in the UK, for which I was awarded a SSHRC Insight Development grant in 2021. This interdisciplinary work involves exploring the overlapping metaphors around roots and rootedness that circulate in contemporary British writing, especially where environmental concerns are privileged, and especially in writing by women, queer folks, and racialized subjects. Since 2023, I have co-coordinated a monthly interdisciplinary reading group sponsored by SSHRC and Concordia’s Social Justice Centre called “The Ambivalence of Rootedness: Oppressive and Liberatory Potentials,” which examines the ethics, politics, and material and affective ramifications of different kinds of “roots,” from Heideggarian dwelling to its Levinasian critique, and from the liberatory potential of Black and Indigenous writing and activism to the contested politics at the heart of contemporary environmental thought. I’m currently at work on a book-length manuscript on race and place in contemporary British fiction and life-writing, and my essays on this and other topics have appeared in the Journal of Modern Literature, Irish Studies Review, Studies in the Novel, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, ASAP/J, and Contemporary Literature.

Before taking this tenure-track position at Concordia, I held both full-time limited-term appointments and part-time contracts at Concordia, and I taught full-time and part-time at Montreal area CEGEPS as well. I’m excited to bring both my grounding as a researcher and my experiences as a college-level instructor and contingent faculty member to my role as Vice President of ACCUTE, where I hope to continue the work of advocating for our working conditions across the board. 

I am a contract lecturer at Lakehead University, specializing in medieval literature, medievalisms, politics and gender studies, though my teaching interests also include film, composition and contemporary literature. I have concurrently studied medieval literature and public history, so my publications represent this overlap. A few of my publications include “‘Viking tough’: How Ads Sell Us Medieval Manhood” for the Publicmedievalist “Cultural Contact, the Tourist Gaze, and Heritage Viking Spaces” for Viking Heritage and History in Europe: Practices and Recreations ( 2024), “Hamlet and Amleth, Princes of Denmark: Shakespeare and Saxo Grammaticus as historians and kingly actions in the Hamlet/Amleth narrative” for The Hilltop Review (2015), “Alfred the Little: Medievalism, Politics, and the Poet Laureate” for Studies in Medievalism XXIV: Medievalism on the Margins (2015) and “Putting the Vikings on the Canadian Map” for Mapping Medievalism on the Canadian Frontier (2010). In my public history career, I have also worked for The Legislative Assembly of Ontario, the Simcoe County Archives, Huronia Historical Parks and L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site.

I am a PhD candidate at the University of Western Ontario, working primarily on Romanticism and the History of Sciences. While my work is invested in Deconstruction, History of Ideas, and Posthumanism, I am also interested in Animal Studies, Biopolitics, as well as Reading and Readership. Disciplinarity, itself, alongside interdisciplinary debates and intersections are what my work thrives on. I am the Co-founder and current Co-ordinator of the interdisciplinary Animal Studies Research Group at Western. Even prior to completing my MA and my MPhil, I had realised that my passion for teaching and lecturing cannot ever be overstated: over the past few years, I have helped design courses on posthumanism, and have lectured on William Blake, Toni Morrison, Arthur Conan Doyle, Amitav Ghosh, and various topics pertaining to Film Studies; I have been teaching multiple courses on Writing, Reasoning, and Communication too.

Glenn Clifton is a writer of fiction, plays, and academic articles. His fiction has appeared in The Ex-Puritan, The New Quarterly, On Spec, Prairie Fire, and The Fiddlehead, amongst other places, and his research into creative writing pedagogy has appeared in University of Toronto Quarterly. He is a professor in Sheridan College’s CW&P program. 

RICHARD DOUGLASS-CHIN, B.A. (McMaster), M.A. (Western), Ph.D. (McMaster), specializes in Postcolonial, Asian African, African American and African Diasporic literature.  He has published articles in MELUS, FUSE, and Revista la Torre. His critical text, Preacher Woman Sings the Blues, investigates the literary connections between contemporary African American female authors and their eighteenth and nineteenth-century predecessors. He has also published poems and short stories in Rampike and several anthologies.  His examination of the influence of Asian and African literary and philosophical traditions on American transcendentalism, modernism and postmodernism have taken him to South Africa, the Caribbean, and the Yale-China Institute of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  He has been a featured speaker at Isaac Royall House and Slave quarters in Medford, Massachusetts, where he presented his ongoing and ground-breaking research on one of the first extant records of African American women’s experience in writing– the 1783 petition of Belinda Sutton to the Massachusetts Legislature.  His short story “Blood Guitar,” about the integral influence of West African art on Picasso’s cubism and modernism in general, was published in The African American Review, and  his article “Madness and Translation of the Bones in NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!” in the essay collection Madness in Black Women’s Diasporic Fictions:  Aesthetics of Resistance  (Palgrave Macmillain, eds. Caroline Brown and Johanna Garvey).  Another article “Exit the King: The Theatres of War, Cruelty, and West African Ceremonial Egungun Masquerade in NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!” is forthcoming in the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Avant-Garde Writing series.  He is presently a reviewer for the International Mad Studies Journal.  

I am a teacher in the English Department at Dawson College in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. I have also worked as an Assistant Professor, with limited term appointments, in the English Departments of Bishop’s University and Concordia University. With an MA in Creative Writing from Concordia University and a PhD in English Studies from Université de Montréal, I am a practicing poet and a scholar of contemporary feminist poetics. My writing on Lisa Robertson, Erín Moure, and Syd Zolf has appeared in Canadian Literature, Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature Canadienne, and CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event. I am also the 2022–24 reviewer of Poetics for Oxford University Press’s The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. My debut poetry collection A Number of Stunning Attacks was published by Invisible in 2021. My forthcoming poetry collection Cut Side Down will be released in 2025.

Hello! I’m Neta, and this is my third time serving on the ACCUTE Board-of-Directors. (I have also been an ex-officio member as President of CACE, and I served alongside Gregory Betts as his Vice President). I teach in the Department of English Language and Literature at Brock University, and my publications include Catching the Torch: Contemporary Canadian Literary Literary Responses to World War I (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2014) and Bearers of Risk: Writing Masculinity in Contemporary English-Canadian Short Story Cycles (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2022). I am also a co-editor of The Broadview Introduction to Literature and primary investigator on the “Mapping Ann-Marie MacDonald” project: see https://mamm.cfdh.ca/. 

I am a Distinguished University Professor in English & Cultural Studies at McMaster University, with specializations in Canadian Literature and celebrity culture. My book Literary Celebrity in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2007) contributed the first study of celebrity’s impact on Canadian literature. My book Reluctant Celebrity: Affect and Privilege in Contemporary Stardom (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), theorizes reluctance as a product of privilege: the power “to publicly avow…one’s treasonous disinclination to ‘lean in’” under neoliberalism. I have just finished writing a book about reluctance’s opposite—eagerness: Unseemly:  Affect, Gender, New Media, and the Denunciation of Fame Hunger. I freely admit that I just wanted to write a book called “Unseemly.”

I’m Acting Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of English at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, on the traditional lands of Fort William First Nation, Signatory to the Robinson Superior Treaty of 1850. At Lakehead, I teach Canadian literature, science fiction, popular fiction, and climate-crisis narratives, and served more than four years as Graduate Coordinator of the English MA program and eight years as Chair of the Department of English. I’m also a member of the graduate programs in Gender and Women’s Studies and Social Justice Studies. I’ve published peer-reviewed articles in a number of books and journals, including Studies in Canadian Literature, Canadian Literature, and English Studies in Canada, and edited Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers (Gale, 2002) and, with Justin Edwards, co-edited Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities (Toronto, 2005), which began as a member-organized ACCUTE panel at Laval in 2001. My first ACCUTE conference was at Memorial in 1997, and I served as the Graduate Student Representative on the ACCUTE Executive in 1998-1999. I’ve also served on the executive of the Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures (2000-2003) and the Canadian Association of Chairs of English (2021-22 & 2023-24) and am a member of the Advisory Board of Studies in Canadian Literature.

I’m heading into my fifth year as Chair in my department – and my first as President of CACE. I’ve held various administrative positions, but the most rewarding so far was the Director for the Centre of Teaching and Learning at Trent. I’ve written a book on Canadian First World War poetry (Battle Lines [2018]), and published essays on Robert Service’s war journalism, Rohinton Mistry’s formulation of cricket, and Ann-Marie MacDonald’s rendition of trauma. I teach at a small campus, which means I get to lead a good range of courses, including ones on graphic novels, poetry, and Canadian literature. At present, I’m building a research interest in Toronto literatures and the value of an English degree (and its cognate skills and knowledge).