CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Pamela Banting

English Department University of Calgary2500 University Dr. NWCalgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4

Telephone: (403) 851-1063 (home) (403) 220-5480 (my university office)(403) 220-5470 (English Department General Office)(403) 289-1123 (Department fax)

E-mail: pbanting@ucalgary.ca

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION:

1990 Ph.D., English, University of Alberta1987, 1984 International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies (ISISSS),

University of Toronto1986 M.A., English, University of Manitoba1977 Cert. Ed., English and guidance, University of Manitoba1976 B.A., English and philosophy, University of Manitoba

ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS, HONOURS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND FELLOWSHIPS:

POSTGRADUATE

2010 Conference Travel Grant, English Dept. ($400)2008 Sabbatical Fellowship (Summer/Fall 2008)2008 Career Development Award 2007 Honourable Mention, New Course Awards, Humane Society of the United States (for

my graduate course on The Question of the Animal)2006 University Research Grants Committee, Travel Grant (SLSA Conference, Amsterdam)2005 Career Development Award (ASLE Conference, Oregon)2005 Sabbatical Fellowship (Winter/Spring 2005)2004 University Research Grants Committee, Starter Grant 2004 Nomination, Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Award (English 509 Studies in

Canadian Literature: Writing the Rural)2003 Calgary Institute for the Humanities Research Fellowship (September 2003 - August

2004)

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2003 Sabbatical Fellowship (postponed in favour of Calgary Institute for the Humanities Research Fellowship)

2003 SSHRCC International Representation Travel Grant, ASLE Conference and Executive Council Meeting, Boston, June 2003

2002 Career Development Award (WLA Conference, Tucson, AZ, October 2002)2002 Faculty of Humanities, Research Starter Grant 2002 University Research Grants Committee, Travel Grant (reading and speaking tour of

Japan, June 2002)2001 Career Development Award1999 Career Development Award1999 English Department Grant 1999 Faculty of Humanities Scholarly Development Award, University of Calgary1997 University Research Grants Committee, Travel Grant, University of Calgary1996 Canadian Plains Research Center Fellowship, University of Regina1996 Central Research Fund Conference Travel Grant, University of Alberta1994 SSHRCC Conference Travel Funds Grant1993 Canadian Federation for the Humanities Scholarly Book Publishing Subvention1990-93 Faculty of Arts Research-Travel Funds Awards, 1990, 1991, 1992, 19931990-92 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral

Fellowship (SSHRCC)1990 Calgary Institute for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowship (one-year fellowship

declined in favour of a two-year SSHRCC)

GRADUATE

1990 Sarah Nettie Christie Travel Bursary, English Department, University of Alberta, 19901987-90 University of Alberta Graduate Faculty Fellowship1987-90 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship1987 York University Doctoral Entrance Scholarship, Toronto (declined in order to attend

the University of Alberta instead)1982 University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship1981 Dr. Vernon B. Rhodenizer Graduate Scholarship, English Department, University of

Manitoba1981-83 Colin Inkster Memorial Scholarship, St. John’s College, University of Manitoba (three

separate competitions)

UNDERGRADUATE

1974 Sybil Inkster Scholarship for English, St. John’s College1974 St. John’s College Scholarship, University of Manitoba1973 Royal Canadian Legion Scholarship,1973 C.C. Landon Memorial Entrance Scholarship, St. John’s College, University of

Manitoba1973 University of Manitoba Alumni Award for Excellence

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UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT AND OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

2007 Faculty, Writing with Style (Memoir), Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB2005- Associate Professor, English Department, University of Calgary (tenure awarded 2005)2002-05 Assistant Professor, English Department, University of Calgary2000-02 Instructor 2, English Department, University of Calgary1996-00 Sessional Lecturer, English Department, University of Calgary1995-96 Sessional Lecturer, English Department, University of Alberta1994-99 Adjunct Professor, English Department, University of Alberta1990-94 Assistant Professor, English Department, University of Western Ontario 1989-90 Part-time Sessional Lecturer, English Department, University of Alberta 1985-87 Instructor, Creative Writing, St. Boniface School Division, Adult Continuing

Education, Winnipeg 1985 Research Associate, The Dorothy Livesay Research Tool Project, Archives and Special

Collections, University of Manitoba (full-time twelve-month appointment funded by SSHRCC)

1981-84 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Administrative Studies, University of Manitoba

1981-84 Graduate Teaching Assistant, English Department, University of Manitoba 1977-79 Secondary School Teacher in Gimli, Manitoba

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AND TEACHING:

Canadian LiteratureWestern North American LiteratureNature Writing, Environmental Literature and EcocriticismLiterary Theory, Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinary ResearchTranslation PoeticsCreative Writing

UNIVERSITY COURSES TAUGHT:

This list catalogues all the courses I have taught but does not reflect the number of times I have taught some of them.

Introductory Courses:101 Critical Reading and Writing 210 English Literary Forms 231 Introduction to Fiction233 Introduction to Non-Fictional Prose235 Introduction to Poetry237 Introduction to Dramatic Literature

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239 Fundamentals of Literary Studies: Environmental Literature: Sustainability, Energy and the Environment

239 Fundamentals of Literary Studies: Nature Writing and Environmental Literature239 Fundamentals of Literary Studies: Environmental Activism (Winter 2011)240 Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present

Second Year:201 The History of Theory and Criticism 255 Feminist Literary Theory301 Introduction to Contemporary Theoretical Practices302 Introduction to Contemporary Theoretical Practices283 An Introduction to the Literature of Popular Culture in English274 Canadian Literature354 Poetry: Reading and Analysis 387 Topic in Literature and Society: Literature and the Environment383 Topic in Literature and the Environment: The Literature of Wilderness and Wilder Places 383 Topic in Literature and the Environment: The Poetics of Space and Place 383 Topic in Literature and the Environment: Contemporary Women Nature Writers 383 Topic in Literature and the Environment: Mountain Literature 383 Topic in Literature and the Environment: Creative Nonfiction: Writing about Place (a

creative writing course)383 Topic in Literature and the Environment: Contemporary Canadian Nature Writing

Upper Level:470 Canadian Literature474 Composing the Body Canadian475 Contemporary Canadian Women Poets503 Studies in Fictional and Nonfictional Prose: Local Motion: Movement as Ecological Praxis503 Studies in Fictional and Nonfictional Prose: Animals in North American Fiction and

Nonfiction509 Studies in Canadian Literature: Nature and the Poetry of Confederation509 Studies in Canadian Literature: The Literature of Southern Alberta509 Studies in Canadian Literature: Writing the Rural 517 Theoretical and Cultural Studies: Nature Writing and Ecocriticism 517 Theoretical and Cultural Studies: Wild Semiosis: Reading Texts and Landscapes517 Theoretical and Cultural Studies: Animality (double-numbered with graduate course)

Graduate Courses:Translation Poetics Wild Grammatology: Readings Texts and Nature The Human and Its Others: The Question of the Animal (won 2nd prize, New Course Award,

from the Humane Society of the United States)Nomads and Settlers: Postcolonial Ecologies Animality

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WORK-IN-PROGRESS:

“Wild Faces 2,” paper proposal submitted for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, June 2011.

“Thinking Like a Grizzly: Contemporary Canadian Environmental Literature,” monograph on Canadian naturalist writers (Sharon Butala, Sid Marty), biologists (Karsten Heuer), documentary filmmakers and photographers (Andy Russell, Charlie Russell), and others. See below under book chapters and articles for publications from this project.

A collection of nonfiction essays about the Swan River Valley. A number of these essays have won prizes for creative nonfiction, and been published in books, journals and literary magazines. See below under Creative Nonfiction Published in Books and Creative Nonfiction published in Journals and Magazines (approximately pp. 24 – 25) for publications from this project.

BOOKS PUBLISHED:

Fresh Tracks: Writing the Western Landscape. Victoria: Polestar Press, 1998. 350 pp.

Body Inc.: A Theory of Translation Poetics. Accepted for publication by the U of Toronto P. CFH Publishing Subvention Awarded. However, I wanted a more affordable book so offered it to a trade publisher instead. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1995. 250 pp.

The Papers of Dorothy Livesay. Co-written with Kristjana Gunnars. University of Manitoba: Archives and Special Collections, 1986. 420 pp.

ARTICLES IN PROCESS:

“Notes Toward Ecological Community: Reading Natural History Narratives for an Interspecies Ethic,” delivered to “The Ecological Community Conference,” Association for Literature, the Environment and Culture in Canada Conference, Cape Breton University, August 19 – 22, 2010. Extending to chapter length.

“Animals and Scents of Place: Sid Marty’s The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek.” ASLE Conference, Victoria, BC, June 2009. Accepted. Delivered. Currently being extended to publishable length for a book on Animals and Place, ed. Traci Warkentin and Gavan Watson.

ARTICLES UNDER CONSIDERATION OR FORTHCOMING IN BOOKS:

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“The Ontology and Epistemology of Walking: Animality in Karsten Heuer’s Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd.” 33 pp. Submitted to Dr. Ella Soper-Jones and Dr. Nicholas Bradley for The Canadian Ecocriticism Reader. Ms.submitted to a publisher. My article submitted Dec. 2009.

ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:

“Geography as Intertext: Toward a Non-Representational Reading of Thomas Wharton’s Novel Icefields.” Process: Landscape and Text. Ed. Catherine Brace and Adeline Johns-Putra. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2010. 285 – 307.

“Kultura natury: O wspólczesnej kanadyskiej literaturze ekologicznej.” Polish translation of “The Culture of Nature: Notes on Contemporary Canadian Ecological Literature.” Canadian Literary and Cultural Discourses and the Concept of Nationhood: Constructing / Deconstructing Canadianness. Ed. Eugenia Sojka. Cracow: Universitas P, 2010. Invited September 2005.

“Magic is Afoot: Hoof Marks, Paw Prints and the Problem of Writing Wildly.” Animal Encounters. Ed. Tom Tyler and Manuela Rossini. Leiden, Netherlands, and Boston, MA: Brill Publishers, 2009. Invited July 28. 2006. 27 – 44.

“From Grizzly Country to Grizzly Heart: The Grammar of Bear-Human Interactions in the Work of Andy Russell and Charlie Russell.” George Melynk and Donna Coates, eds., Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature. Athabasca, AB: Athabasca UP 2009. Invited. Article solicited and submitted 2005. 159 – 72.

“Deconstructing the Politics of Location: The Problem of Setting in Prairie Fiction and Nonfiction.” Sue Sorensen, ed., West of Eden: New Approaches in Canadian Prairie Literature. Winnipeg: Canadian Mennonite University Press, 2009. Invited. 48 – 74.

“Abandoning the Fort: Cultural Difference and Biodiversity in Canadian Literature and Criticism.” Teaching North American Environmental Literature. MLA Options for Teaching Series. Eds. Laird Christensen, Mark C. Long, Fred Waage. New York: Modern Language Association, 2008. Invited in 2003 or 2004. 112 - 25.

“The Land Writes Back: Notes on Four Western-Canadian Nature Writers.“ The Literature of Nature: An International Sourcebook. Ed. Patrick Murphy. Chicago and London: Fitzroy-Dearborn Publishers, 1998. Invited. 140-46.

“(S)mother Tongue?: Feminism, Academic Discourse, Translation.” Collaboration in the Feminine: Writings on Women and Culture from Tessera. Ed. Barbara Godard. Toronto: Second Story Press, 1994. 171-81.

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“The Reorganization of the Body: Daphne Marlatt’s ‘musing with mothertongue.’” ReImag(in)ing Women: Representations of Women in Culture. Ed. Shirley Neuman and Glennis Stephenson. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1993. 217-232.

“Body Inc.: Daphne Marlatt’s Translation Poetics.” Women’s Writing and the Literary Institution/L’écriture au féminin et l’institution littéraire. Towards a History of the Literary Institution in Canada Conference Proceedings (HOLIC). Ed. Claudine Potvin and Janice Williamson, in collaboration with S. Totosy de Zepetnek. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, 1992. 1-19.

“Translation A to Z: Notes on Daphne Marlatt’s Ana Historic.” Beyond Tish. Ed. Douglas Barbour. Edmonton and Vancouver: NeWest Press and West Coast Line, 1991. 123-129.

“Poetry is for People: An Interview with Dorothy Livesay.” Language in Her Eye: Views on Writing and Gender by English Canadian Women Writers. Ed. Libby Scheier, Sarah Sheard and Eleanor Wachtel. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1990. 178-182.

“There’s a Trick with a Mirror I’m Learning to Do.” Trace: Prairie Writers on Writing. Ed. Birk Sproxton. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1986. 111-19.

ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN REFEREED JOURNALS:

“How Rural Settings Can Unsettle Prairie Critics: Deconstructing the Politics of Location.” International Journal of Canadian Studies 32 (2005): 237 - 67.

“The Angel in the Glacier: Geography as Intertext in Thomas Wharton’s Novel Icefields.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 7.2 (2000): 67-80.

“‘The gopher was the model’: The Semiotic Contributions of Small Mammals to Robert Kroetsch’s Literary Technique.” The New Quarterly 18.1 (1998): 201-215.

“The Phantom Limb Syndrome: Writing the Postcolonial Body in Daphne Marlatt’s Touch to My Tongue.” Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 24.3 (1993): 7-30.

“The Body as Pictogram: Rethinking Hélène Cixous’s écriture féminine.” Textual Practice 6.2 (1992): 225-46.

“Tremendous Forgeries, Confabulations and Graphologies Elliptical: The Lyric/Anti-Lyric Poetry of Sharon Thesen and Elizabeth Smither.” Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada 6 (1991): 112-34.

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“Daddy’s Girl: Dorothy Livesay’s Correspondence with Her Father.” Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 22 (1988): 10-21.

“Fred Wah’s Syntax: A Genealogy, A Translation.” Sagetrieb: A Journal Devoted to Poets in the Imagist/Objectivist Tradition 7.1 (1988): 99-113.

“The Archive as a Literary Genre: Some Theoretical Speculations.” Archivaria 23 (1986-87): 119-22.

“Miss A and Mrs. B: The Letter of Pleasure in The Scarlet Letter and As For Me and My House.” North Dakota Quarterly 54.2 (1986): 30-40.

ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN NON-REFEREED JOURNALS:

“Urban Palate: Urbocentrism in Some Recent Literary Criticism.” Westword (2006): 29 - 30.

“Association for Literature, the Environment and Culture in Canada / Association pour la littérature, l’environnement et la culture au Canada.” Association for Literature, the Environment and Culture in Canada (ALECC) website, http://www.alecc.ca/about.html. Posted 2006.

“Imagining Community: Linking Nature Writers, Environmental Artists and Ecocritics.” The Goose, No. 1 (2005), the newsletter for ASLE-Canada. Invited. URL: http://individual.utoronto.ca/esjones/

“Birds, Bees and Grizzly Bears: Notes on Nature and Culture in Contemporary Canadian Literature,” Conspectus: A Journal of English Studies 2 (2004): 6 - 22.

Review article on The Madwoman in the Academy: 43 Women Boldly Take on the Ivory Tower. Ed. Deborah Keahey and Deborah Schnitzer. Prairie Fire Review of Books, Spring 2004: http://www.prairiefire.mb.ca/reviews/keahey_schnitzer.html. Also published in Prairie Fire Magazine 25.1 (2004): 106 - 110..

“Robert Kroetsch’s Translation Poetics: Questions of Composition in the (Rosetta) `Stone Hammer Poem’ and Seed Catalogue.” West Coast Line 10 [27/1] (1993): 92-107.

“The Cat Came Back, Or Did It? Writing Creative Nonfiction Essays.” Westword (Fall 2002): 9 - 10.

“Editorial: Vol. 9, No. 1.” Rpt. of excerpt from “Blurred Mirrors and the Archaeology of Masks,” my 1985 editorial to the first issue of Contemporary Verse Two, which I co-edited 1985 - 87. Contemporary Verse Two 24.1 (2001): 26 -27. (Commemorative Issue celebrating 27 years of the magazine).

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“Publishing in Literary Magazines.” Westword 21.4 (2001): 12 - 13.

“A Field Guide to Alberta Poets.” Alberta Views 3.6 ( 2000): 22-27. Also rpt. on the web at http://www.albertaviews.ab.ca/issues/2000/novdec00/novdec00art.pdf

“Body Work: Beth Goobie’s Could I Have My Body Back Now, Please?” Open Letter 9th ser. 3 (1995): 35-39.

“Tremendous Forgeries, Confabulations and Graphologies Elliptical: The Lyric/Anti-Lyric Poetry of Sharon Thesen and Elizabeth Smither.” Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada 6 (1991): 112-34.

“The Undersigned: Ethnicity and Signature-Effects in the Poetry of Fred Wah.” West Coast Line 2 (1990): 83-94.

“(S)mother Tongue?: Feminism, Academic Discourse, Translation.” Tessera 6 (1989): 81-91.

“Fred Wah: The Poet as Theor(h)et(or)ician.” Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory 6th ser. 7 (1987): 5-20.

“The(EYE)or(I)y.” Prairie Fire 8.2 (1987): 33-39. Rpt. in ClassMate: The Official Journal of the Manitoba Association of Teachers of English 17.3 (1987): 8-12.

“Report on Long-Liners: A Conference on the Canadian Long Poem.” Prairie Fire 6.2 (1985): 61-64.

“Blurred Mirrors and the Archaeology of Masks.” Contemporary Verse 2 9.1 (1985): 5-8. Reprinted in Contemporary Verse 2 24.1 (2001): 26 -27.

“Dorothy Livesay’s Notations of Love and the Dance of the Female Poet in Relation to Language.” Contemporary Verse 2 8.3 (1984): 14-18.

“Report on the Women and Words/Les femmes et les mots Conference.” Prairie Fire 5. 2 & 3 (1984): 101-04.

EDITING:

2008- Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Ecocriticism2007- Editorial Advisory Board, The Brock Review2007- Editorial Advisory Board, Lake: A Journal of Arts and the Environment2006 Guest editor for special “Prairie” issue of Freefall

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2003 Editor, Kamchatka: Living with Grizzlies of the Russian Far East, by Charles Russell and Maureen Enns

2002 Editor, Kamchatka: Living with Grizzlies of the Russian Far East, by Charles Russell and Maureen Enns

2001 Editor, Kamchatka: Living with Grizzlies of the Russian Far East, by Charles Russell and Maureen Enns

2000 Editor, Kamchatka: The Grizzlies of the Russian Far East, by Charles Russell and Maureen Enns

1998 Creator and editor, Fresh Tracks: Writing the Western Landscape, Victoria: Polestar Press, 1998.

1991-96 Editor and editorial advisory board member, House of Anansi Press, Toronto1990 Editor for the author and for the press of Sharon Thesen’s The Pangs of Sunday:

Selected and New Poems. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990. 134 pp.1986-87 Fiction and poetry editor, Herizons Magazine1985-86 Mentor / editor, Manitoba Writers’ Guild Mentor Program1984-86 Member of four-woman editorial collective for Contemporary Verse 2 Magazine1979-80 Technical editor for law publishing company, Carswell/Burroughs, a division of

Methuen

INTERVIEWS:

Pamela Banting, Moderator, A Conversation with Barry Lopez, February 26th, 2009. Institute for Sustainable Energy, Economics and Environment (ISEEE) Seminar Series.

Pamela Banting, “Interview of Birk Sproxton.” Prairie Fire, 2006, 20 pp. typescript. URL: http://www.prairiefire.ca/

Gordon Morash. “Interview of Pamela Banting, Creative Nonfiction Writer,” for an online course, MAIS 617 (Master of Arts, Integrated Studies) Creative Nonfiction, Athabasca University, September 2004. http://library.athabascau.ca/drr/mais617/MAIS_617-Banting_interview.pdf

Gordon Morash. “Interview of Pamela Banting, Editor and Teacher of Creative Nonfiction,” for an online course, MAIS 617 (Master of Arts, Integrated Studies) Creative Nonfiction, Athabasca University, September 2004. http://library.athabascau.ca/drr/mais617/MAIS_617-Banting_interview.pdf

Pamela Banting. “Interview with Fred Wah.” Brick 27 (1986): 13-17.

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Pamela Banting. “Interview with Dorothy Livesay.” In collaboration with Kristjana Gunnars. Prairie Fire 7.3 (1986): 8-13. Excerpt reprinted in The League of Canadian Poets Newsletter 55 (April 1987): 2-3.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Rev. of The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest, by Ian McAllister. The Goose 4.2 (Fall 2008): http://alecc.ca/thegoose.html.

Rev. of Shadow of the Bear: Travels in Vanishing Wilderness, by Brian Payton. The Goose 3.1 (Fall 2007): http://www.alecc.ca/gpage2.html.

Rev. of Animal Nation: The True Story of Animals and Australia, by Adrian Franklin. The Goose: The Newsletter of the Association for Literature, the Environment and Culture in Canada. Http://www.alecc.ca/gpage2.html

Rev. of This Wild Spirit: Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada, ed. Colleen Skidmore.Alberta Views 10.2 (2007): 57.

Rev. of Earth Alive: Essays on Ecology, by Stan Rowe. Alberta Views 9.9 (2006): 54.

Rev. of Phantom Lake: North of 54, by Birk Sproxton. Calgary Herald, November 12, 2005. Invited.

Rev. of Curious by Nature: One Woman’s Exploration of the Natural World, by Candace Savage. Prairie Fire (Fall 2005): http://www.prairiefire.ca/reviews/savage_c_curious.html.

Rev. of Grizzly Seasons: Life with the Brown Bears of Kamchatka, by Charlie Russell and Maureen Enns. Alberta Views 7.1 (2004): 74. Reprinted in slightly different form in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 11.2 (2004): 273 - 4.

Rev. of The Last Cheater’s Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest, by Ellen Meloy. Alternatives Journal 28.4 (2002): 53.

Rev. of The Bear’s Embrace: A True Story of Surviving a Grizzly Bear Attack, by Patricia Van Tighem. Vancouver and Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 2000. Alberta Views 4.2 (2001): 55-56. Rpt. in slightly different form in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 8.2 (2001): 265 - 66.

Rev. of Going Some Place: Creative Non-Fiction Across Canada, ed. Lynne Van Luven.. The Antigonish Review 125 (2001): 109 - 111.

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Rev. of Voices in the Wind, eds. Barb Grinder, Kevin Van Tighem and Valerie Haig-Brown. Great Plains Quarterly 21.3 (2001): 248-49.

Rev. of Where Rivers Change Direction, by Mark Spragg. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 8.1 (2001): 226 - 27.

Rev. of River in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage, by Trevor Herriot. Encompass Magazine 5.2 (2000): 20.

Rev. of The Literary History of Alberta, Volume 1, by George Melnyk. Great Plains Quarterly, 20.2 (2000): 171.

Rev. of Switchbacks: True Stories from the Canadian Rockies, by Sid Marty. Globe and Mail, Saturday, Dec. 18th, 1999. D5. Reprinted in Mountain High, Feb. 2000, 15.

Rev. of Beneath That Starry Place, by Terry Jordan. Border Crossings 17.4 (1998): 63-66.

Rev. of Coming West: A Natural History of Home, by Kevin Van Tighem. Border Crossings 17.2 (1998): 61-67. Reprinted in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 6.1 (1999): 149-50.

Rev. of Landscapes of the Interior: Re-Explorations of Nature and the Human Spirit, by Don Gayton. Border Crossings 16.1 (1997): 53-56.

Rev. of Annie, by Luanne Armstrong. Prairie Fire 17.1 (1996): 94-95.

Rev. of Leaning on the Wind: Under the Spell of the Great Chinook, by Sid Marty. Border Crossings 15.1 (1996): 46-48.

Rev. of Icefields, by Thomas Wharton. Border Crossings 14.4 (1995): 76-78. Also published in The Wild Life, August 1995.

Rev. essay on Northern Lights: A Selection of New Writing from the American West, eds. Deborah Clow and Donald Snow. Other Voices 8.2 (1995): 98-101.

Rev. of Hélène Cixous: A Politics of Writing, by Morag Shiach. Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 25.2 (1994): 128-31.

Rev. of Voices of Change: Immigrant Writers Speak Out, ed. Jurgen Hesse and Telling It: Women and Language Across Cultures, eds. Sky Lee, Lee Maracle, Daphne Marlatt, and Betsy Warland. West Coast Line 25.2 (1991): 137-141.

Rev. of Goodbye Harold, Good Luck, by Audrey Thomas. Briarpatch: Saskatchewan’s Independent Newsmagazine 16.4 (May 1987): 29.

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“Powers of Seduction.” Rev. of Touch to My Tongue, by Daphne Marlatt, and open is broken, by Betsy Warland, Prairie Fire 7.3 (1986): 148-52.

Rev. of Confabulations: Poems for Malcolm Lowry, by Sharon Thesen. The Malcolm Lowry Review 17/18 (1985/86): 67-75. Rpt. in Brick: A Journal of Reviews 27 (1986): 54-56.

“Saving the Paraphrase?” Rev. of Surviving the Paraphrase: Eleven Essays on Canadian Literature, by Frank Davey. Prairie Fire 6.1 (1985): 86-88.

BOOK COVER ENDORSEMENTS:

Jenny Kerber, Writing in Dust: Reading the Prairie Environmentally. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2010.

Madhur Anand and Adam Dickinson, eds., Re-Green: New Canadian Ecological Poetry, Scrivener Press, 2009.

Robert Sandford, The Weekender Effect: Hyperdevelopment in Mountain Towns, Calgary: Rocky Mountain Books, 2008, in press.

J.A. Wainwright, ed., Every Grain of Sand: Canadian Perspectives on Ecology and Environment Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2004.

Sid Marty, Switchbacks: True Stories from the Canadian Rockies. 1999. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2001.

Daphne Marlatt, Readings from the Labyrinth. The Writer as Critic Series, No. VI. Edmonton: NeWest P, 1998.

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS DELIVERED:

“Notes Toward Ecological Community: Reading Natural History Narratives for an Interspecies Ethic,” “The Ecological Community Conference,” Association for Literature, the Environment and Culture in Canada Conference, Cape Breton University, August 19 – 22, 2010.

“Spoon by Spoon: Overcoming Student Resistance to Difficult Texts.” Panel on The Slow Reading Movement: Concentration in the Age of Impatience. Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary, January 27, 2010.

“Bears and Scents of Place: The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek.” Island Time: Biennial ASLE Conference, University of Victoria, June 2 to 6, 2009.

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“Magic is Afoot: Hoof Marks, Paw Prints, and the Problem of Writing Wildly.” University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, March 6, 2009. Invited. Solo presentation.

Plenary Address. “Making Scents: Signature, Text, Habitat.” Poetic Ecologies: Nature as Text and Text as Nature in English-Language Verse Conference, Université Libre de Bruxelles, May 14 - 17, 2008. Invited.

“Local Motion: The Pedestrian Narrative of Karsten Heuer’s Being Caribou.” The Prairies in 3-D: Disorientations, Diversities and Dispersals Conference, St. John’s College, University of Manitoba, September 27 - 29, 2007.

“Epistemology of the Tundra: Karsten Heuer’s Being Caribou and the Question of Becoming Animal.” Association of College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), Congress, Saskatoon, SK, May 29, 2007.

“Fresh Tracks: Writing with Wild Animals.” Close Encounters: 4th Biannual Meeting of the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, June 13 - 16, 2006.

“Magic is Afoot: Hoof Marks, Paw Prints, and the Problem of Writing Wildly.” Writing Home: Science, Literature and the Aesthetics of Place Conference, Green College, University of British Columbia, May 12 - 14, 2006. Invited.

“Magic is Afoot: Hoof Marks, Paw Prints, and the Problem of Writing Wildly.” Questions of Nature and Philosophy Series. Apeiron Society for the Practice of Philosophy. Calgary, AB. February 7, 2006. Invited guest lecturer.

“My Sense of Place.” Screening of Coulee and co-presentation with choreographer Davida Monk. Nickle Arts Museum, November 10, 2005. Invited.

“Wilderness Words: Tawny Grammars and Biosemiotics in the Work of Andy Russell and Sid Marty.” Wild Words Conference, University of Calgary, October 19 - 23, 2005.

“My Father’s Moose.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, University of Oregon, June 21 - 25, 2005.

“Internationalizing Ecologically Oriented Literary and Cultural Studies: A Roundtable Discussion.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, University of Oregon, June 21 - 25, 2005. Invited.

“Representations of Wild Animals in Andy Russell’s Grizzly Country and Adventures with Wild Animals,” The Animals in This Country Conference, University of Ottawa, May 6 - 8, 2005.

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“My Father’s Moose.” Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP), Vancouver, BC, April 2005. Invited by panel organizer to read.

“Birds and Bees and Grizzly Bears: An Ecocritical Reading of Canadian Literature.” Shastri Institute, University of Calgary, May 25, 2004. Solo presentation.

“Shooting Bears: Ethics and Etiquette in Charlie Russell’s and Maureen Enns’s Photographs of the Grizzlies of Kamchatka.” Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary, May 11, 2004. 22 pp.

“Shooting Bears: Ethics and Etiquette in Charlie Russell’s Photographs of the Spirit Bears of the Western Rainforest and the Grizzlies of Kamchatka.” The Photograph Conference, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, March 11 - 13, 2004. 9 pp.

“From Grizzly Country to Grizzly Heart: The Syntax of Bear-Human Interactions in the Writings of Andy Russell and Charlie Russell.” The solid earth! The actual world!: Fifth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, June 3 - 8, 2003. Also moderator of my panel.

“‘But where are you gonna set ‘er down?’: Aridity and Drought in Prairie Fiction and Nonfiction.” Lands of Little Rain: Creative Oases in the Arid West Conference, Western Literature Association Conference, Tucson, Arizona, October 9 - 12, 2002.

“Translation and Translation Poetics.” Aichi Shukutoku University, Nagoya, Japan, June 10, 2002.

“Believe It or Not,” Aichi Arts Centre, Nagoya, Japan, June 14, 2002.

“The Picture Window View of History,” Re/Turning to History: Imagining Canada’s Past in the Plural Conference, Canadian Literary Society of Japan, Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan, June 7 - 8, 2002.

“History as Paradox: Writing Unorganized Territory.” Re/Turning to History: Imagining Canada’s Past in the Plural Conference, Canadian Literary Society of Japan, Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan, June 7 - 8, 2002.

Panelist and moderator of panel on “Nature, Science and Imagination.” Waterton - Glacier International Writers’ Workshop, Waterton, AB, September 27 - 29, 2001.

“Inscriptions in Landscape: The Coulee Project.” Plenary Session Paper and Video Screening. “Making a Start out of Particulars: The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, Flagstaff, AZ, 2001.

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“Coulee: Life Writing in Landscape.” Paper and Video Screening. Women’s Personal Narratives Conference, University of Calgary, November 2000.

Pro-seminar for English graduate students, English Dept., University of Calgary, October 1998.“Writing the Land.” Write ‘Em Cowboy Short Story Writing Contest and Conference. Western

Heritage Centre, Cochrane, AB. October 1998.

“The Angel in the Glacier: Geography as Intertext in Thomas Wharton’s Icefields.” Crossing the West(s): Inventing Frontiers Conference (Western Literature Association and the Canadian Association for American Studies joint conference). Banff, October 1998.

“‘The gopher was the model’: The Semiotic Contributions of Small Mammals to Robert Kroetsch’s Literary Technique.” A Likely Story: The Writings of Robert Kroetsch Conference, St. Jerome's College, University of Waterloo, June 1997.

Also delivered to The Meta-Physics of Landscape, Faculty of Humanities Colloquium, University of Calgary, October 4, 1997.

“The Land Writes Back: Notes on Four Western-Canadian Writers.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, University of Montana, Missoula, July 1997.

“Writers of the Purple Page.” Writing and Publishing Program, Red Deer College, February 1996.

“Reading in Bed: Postcolonial Sex in Dany Laferrière’s How to Make Love to a Negro.” The Edmonton Conference. Postcolonialism: Audiences and Constituencies, University of Alberta, 1993.

Keynote Address: “The Body as Pictogram: Rethinking Hélène Cixous’s écriture féminine.”

Text on Edge Conference, St. John’s College, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, 1992.

Also presented in the English Department Colloquium Series, University of Western Ontario, 1992, and to the Canadian Association for Translation Studies, Meeting of the Learned Societies, Queen’s University, 1991.

“‘Body the words thrum’: Writing the Feminine In.” Text on Edge Conference, St. John’s College, University of Manitoba, 1992.

“Practicing Theory, Or I Took Piano Lessons from the Virgin Mary.” Where Have All the Artists Gone Symposium, Forest City Gallery, London, 1992.

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“The Phantom Limb Syndrome: Writing the Postcolonial Body in Daphne Marlatt’s Touch to My Tongue.” ACCUTE, Meeting of the Learned Societies, University of Prince Edward Island, 1992.

“Infringeing: Writing the Other.” Writing (about) the Other Conference. Forest City Gallery, London, 1991.

“The (Rosetta) ‘Stone Hammer Poem’: Robert Kroetsch’s Translation Poetics.” Canada: A Challenge, Third Annual Conference of the Spanish Association for Canadian Studies, Madrid, Spain, 1991.

“Unlimited Inc.orporation: Daphne Marlatt’s Translation Poetics.” Concordia University, Montréal, 1990.

“Organ Music: The ReORGANization of the Body in Feminist Experimental Writing.” Bodies: Image, Writing, Technology Conference. University of California, Irvine, 1990. Also presented at the Imag(in)ing Women: Representations of Women in Culture Conference, University of Alberta, 1990.

“The Undersigned: Ethnicity and Signature-Effects in the Poetry of Fred Wah.” University of Alberta, 1990. Also presented at the University of Western Ontario, 1990, and at the ACCUTE Conference, Meeting of the Learned Societies, University of Québec, 1989.

“‘A new alphabet/ gasps for air’: Translation Theory and the Poetics of Contemporary Canadian Women’s Writing.” History of the Literary Institution in Canada Conference (HOLIC): Women Writing and the History of the Literary Institution, University of Alberta, 1989.

“Auditing the Books: Sending Coyote a Statement.” A.K.A. Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, March 6, 1988. (Article on the relationship between writing, theory and criticism, with particular reference to the current situation on the Canadian prairies.)

“The Research Use of Literary Papers.” Canadian Archivists’ Association Conference, Meeting of the Learned Societies, University of Manitoba, 1986.

“The Eye/I in Literature.” Life and Literature Conference, Manitoba Writers’ Guild Annual Conference, 1986.

“Women and the Future of Language and Literature.” Starwords: A Writers’ Guide to the Galaxy, Manitoba Writers’ Guild Annual Conference, Winnipeg, 1985.

“The Dorothy Livesay Papers.” Archives and Special Collections Lecture Series, University of Manitoba, 1985.

PROFESSIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES:

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Contemplative Pedagogy and Deep Listening, Webinar, October 27, 2010The Water for Life Conference, University of Calgary, March 25, 2010Creative Nonfiction Collective Conference, Banff Centre, April 2008Podcasting: Uses and Limitations for Literature Courses, March 2008Creative Nonfiction Collective Conference, Banff Centre, April 2007Writers Guild of Alberta Conference, September 20 - 22, 2002Literary Agents and Publishers, Workshop with Eden Robinson, Fall 2001Finding Editorial Work, Calgary Association of Freelance Editors, February 2001Non-Linear Basic Video Editing, April 2001Video Camera Basics: Some Expert Advice on Shooting in the Field, Learning Commons (LC),

U of Calgary, September 2000, February 2001Inquiry-Based Learning, LC, March 2000Being Interdisciplinary, LC, March 2000Developing a Teaching Portfolio, LC, February and March 2000 (two-part workshop)Organizing and Managing Field Trips, LC, 1999Introduction to Textual Encoding in the Humanities, Calgary Philology Research Group, 1999Civility in the Classroom Presentation, LC, 1999Writing for Interactive Media, Banff Multimedia Institute, Banff Centre, 1998 Writing for New Media, Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta, 1998

POSTDOCTORAL SUPERVISION AND SPONSORSHIP:

Faculty Sponsor, Killam Postdoctoral Applicant, U of Calgary, Isabel Annie Moore, 2010

Faculty Sponsor, Killam Postdoctoral Applicant, Dr. Jon Gordon, 2009

Faculty Advisor, Dr. Franca Bellarsi, Université Libre de Bruxelles,Brussels, Belgium, January 2009

Faculty Sponsor, Killam Postdoctoral Applicant, Dr. Travis V. Mason, 2008

Faculty Supervisor, SSHRCC Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Jenny Kerber, 2007 - 09

Faculty Sponsor, Killam Postdoctoral Applicant, Dr. Jenny Kerber, 2005

Faculty Sponsor, Killam Postdoctoral Applicant, Dr. Adam Dickinson, 2004

Faculty Advisor, Prof. Tiiu Speek, Estonian Institute for the Humanities, Talinn, Estonia, August to September 2001

GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION, OTHER INSTITUTIONS:

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Ph.D. committee member, 2nd reader, Lisa Szabo, University of Alberta, 2008 – Comprehensive exams, January 27, 2010; Oral examination Feb. 12, 2010.Dissertation: “Going Coastal in the Global: Literary New Regionalisms”

GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY

Ph.D. committee member, Tasha Hubbard, 2008 - Dissertation: “Retreat and Re-Emergence: The Buffalo and Indigenous Creative Expression”

Ph.D. committee member, Tammy Vernerey, 2004 - 05 Dissertation: “Contact Zones: Literature, Community and the Traveller’s Interstitial Journey”

Ph.D. supervisor, Angela Waldie, 2004 - 2006Dissertation: “Extinction Narratives”

M.A. supervisor, Kathryn Willms, 2005 - 07, defended January 21, 2008Thesis: “Endangered Borders: Environmental Activism in Three Works of Canadian Creative Nonfiction”

M.A. supervisor, Margot Gilligan, 2004 - 2006, defended March 31, 2006 Thesis: “Voicing Connections: Gender, Identity and Landscape in Contemporary Prairie Women’s Fiction”

M.A. supervisor, Jeff Petersen, defended March 10, 2005Thesis: “Rethinking Setting: Representing Landscape in Southern Alberta Literature”

University of Calgary academic advisor, Ph.D. candidate Simone Hartmann, University of Mannheim, Germany, 2000 Canadian literature and ecocriticism.

EXAMINER:

2011 Candidacy exam, Canadian Trauma Narratives, Tanya Schaap, English Dept., University of Calgary

2009 "An Environmental Path: A Search For Practical Applications From The Wisdom of Shinto in A Modern World." Honours Thesis, Naomi Shimosaka, Religious Studies, University of Calgary

2009 Candidacy exam, American Literature, Sungfu Tsai, University of Calgary2008 Candidacy exam, Canadian Literature, Veronique Dorais, University of Calgary

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2007 “Canonicity, the Politics of Prize-Giving and Contemporary Canadian Poetry,” PhD candidacy exam, Owen Percy, English Department, University of Calgary.

2004 “Feminist Poetics from écriture féminine to The Pink Guitar,” Diss. by Kim Trainor, English Department, McGill University, (Ph.D.)

2003 “Altar Ego,” Novel by Anne Hallett, (Creative M.A.)1994 “‘A territory not yet on the map’: Relocating Gay Aestheticism in the Age of AIDS,” J.

David White (Ph.D.)1993 “‘Absorbed in the Fitting Together of Pieces’: Phyllis Webb’s Use of Form in Even Your

Right Eye, The Sea Is Also a Garden and Wilson’s Bowl,” Tanis Browning-Shelp (M.A)1993 “Ferris Avenue: Six Stories.” (Creative M.A.)1993 “Meaning and Matricide: Reading Woolf Via Julia Kristeva,” Miglena I. Nikolchina

(Ph.D.) 1993 “History ‘Made to Lie’: Timothy Findley’s Versions of the Truth,” Winifred Mellor

(MA)1992 “Polar Imbalances: Public Fact and Private Act in Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a

Lion,” W. Shawn Bragg (M.A.)1991 “Voice and Self in the Manawaka Novels of Margaret Laurence: The Transition from

Humanism to Postmodernism,” Tanya Stewart (Ph.D.)

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SUPERVISION (P.U.R.E. AWARDS):

Program for Undergraduate Research Experiences (PURE Awards), Laura JarveyProject Title: “Defining Communities: Sharon Butala and the Search for Identity in the Canadian West,” Spring and Summer 2008

Program for Undergraduate Research Experiences (PURE Awards), Joanna Dawson Project Title: “The Poetry of Don McKay and Mary Oliver,” Spring and Summer 2007.

In 2008 Joanna Dawson delivered conference papers springing from this project at the Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM; the Eco-Colloquium, University of Calgary; and the Poetic Ecologies Conference, Brussels. She has also began to review books for Prairie Fire Magazine and The Goose, the online ALECC Newsletter.

SERVICE:

Immediate Past President, ALECC, 2010 – 2011

Research Committee, English Dept., 2010 –

University of Calgary Faculty Association (TUCFA), English Department Representative, 2010– 2012

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Paget/Hoy Steering Committee, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary, 2009 – 2011

Conference Organizing Committee, ALECC, 2010

Chair, Conference Committee, ALECC 2009 – 2010Chair, Nomination / Election Committee, ALECC, 2009

Speakers’ Committee, English Dept., 2009 – 2010

University of Calgary Faculty Association (TUCFA), Elections Committee, 2007 – 2011 (one-year appointment; served 4 times)

Humanities Representative, Environmental Design Full Council, 2009 – 2011

Sole organizer and $ponsor, Eco-Colloquium 2 (2009)

I was the first non-American to be elected to the Executive Council of the international Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE), 2003 - 2005 term (three-year term).

Founder and inaugural president, Association for Literature, the Environment and Culture in Canada (ALECC), 2005 – December 2009

Friend of ISEEE, Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy, U of Calgary, 2008 – 2010

Member, Environmental Studies Archival Collection Committee, 2008 – present

Founder and Member, Environment and Representation Research Group, 2008 - present

Sole organizer and sponsor, Eco-Colloquium 1 (2008)

University of Calgary Faculty Association, English Department Representative, 2008 – 2010

English Dept., Executive Committee, 2007

Founding Member, Creative Writing Research Group

Humanities Representative, Faculty of Kinesiology, 2006 – 2008

Paget-Hoy Steering Committee, 2002 – 2003

English Dept., Chair, Speakers’ Committee, 2002 - 2004

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CREATIVE WRITING

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2008 Creative Nonfiction Collective Conference, Banff Centre2002 Writing with Style Program, Banff Centre for the Arts (Creative Nonfiction:

Lifewriting)2000 Self-Directed Residency Program, Banff Centre for the Arts1999 Waterton-Glacier International Writers’ Workshop, Waterton Lakes National Park1999 St. Peter’s Colloquium on Nature Writing and Wilderness Thought, St. Peter’s Abbey,

SK1998 Writing for Interactive Media, Banff Multimedia Institute, Banff Centre 1998 Writing for New Media, Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta1997 Waterton-Glacier International Writers’ Workshop, Waterton Lakes National Park1995 The Leighton Studios, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB1995 Introduction to Screenwriting, University of Alberta1994-96 PACT, Writing Group, Edmonton1994 Emma Lake Writers’ and Artists’ Colony, Emma Lake, SK1987-88 Writers’ Workshop, University of Alberta1985-87 Hiatus, Writing Workshop and Performance Group, Winnipeg, MB1981-84 Riverview Writers’ Workshop, Winnipeg1981 Advanced Poetry Writing. Instructor: Patrick Lane. Fort San, SK

WRITING GRANTS AND PRIZES:

2005 Nomination, Personal Journalism Category, National Magazine Awards2004 Second Prize, Prairie Fire Magazine Creative Nonfiction Competition2003 Finalist, Western Magazine Gold Award, Creative Nonfiction2003 Nominated for a National Magazine Award in the Personal Journalism category 2003 Nominated for a Western Magazine Award in Human Experience Award – Manitoba 2003 Nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2002 Nominated for a Western Magazine Award, Creative Nonfiction 2001 First Prize, Prairie Fire Magazine Creative Non-Fiction/Personal Journalism

Competition2000 Banff Centre for Mountain Culture Grant (nonfiction)2000 Canada Council Writers’ Grant (nonfiction)2000 Writers’ Grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts (nonfiction)1996 Writers’ Grant (fiction), Alberta Foundation for the Arts1995 Third Prize, Prairie Fire Magazine Short Fiction Contest1995 Intermediate Writers’ Grant (poetry), Alberta Foundation for the Arts1995 Leighton Studios Scholarship, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta

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1987 Short Term Projects Grant, Manitoba Arts Council1986 Writers’ Grant ‘A,’ Manitoba Arts Council1984 Short Term Projects Grant, Manitoba Arts Council1983 Short Term Projects Grant, Manitoba Arts Council1980 Alberta Culture Award, Province of Alberta

CHAPBOOKS PUBLISHED:

Bareback. Poetry and prose poems. Vancouver: Pomflit Series, 1993. 14 pp.

Running Into the Open. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1982. 36 pp.

VIDEO:

I wrote the script for Coulee, an interdisciplinary collaboration between dance, video and text. World première Nov. 10/11, 2000, Uptown Stage, Calgary, AB.

Coulee was also screened and papers presented by Pamela Banting and Davida Monk as a plenary session at the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, Flagstaff, Arizona, June 2001, and in several other venues.

POETRY AND FICTION PUBLISHED IN ANTHOLOGIES:

"Highway 22," from “Bareback.” Bards in the Saddle. Ed. Susan Ames Vogelaar. Vancouver: Hancock House, 1997.

Poems from “Bareback.” Alberta Anthology, CBC Radio, broadcast Jan. 5, 1997.

“Godiva Rides Again.” Due West: Thirty Great Stories from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Ed. Aritha Van Herk, Geoffrey Ursell, Wayne Tefs. Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg: NeWest, Coteau and Turnstone Presses, 1996. 30-39.

Poems from “Bareback.” Alberta Anthology, CBC Radio, broadcast October 15, 1995.

“The Imposter Phenomenon.” Alberta Re/bound: Thirty More Stories by Alberta Writers. Ed. Aritha Van Herk. Edmonton: NeWest P, 1990.

“To Gabriel Dumont.” Manitoba Multicultural Anthology, 1983.

“Once, in Alberta.” Draft: An Anthology of Prairie Poetry. Ed. Dennis Cooley. Winnipeg: Turnstone P, 1981.

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POETRY AND FICTION PUBLISHED IN MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS:

Poetry:“Her Bare Legs,” Bemused 2.1 (2001): 28 - 29.“Circle the Wagons,” Mattoid 54 (1999): 189-91. Also published in Grain 24.3 (1997): 79-81.“Alfalfa Desperado” and “Country and Western,” NeWest Review 21.3 (1996): 17-18.“Philtres.” Ten poems. Line 14 (1989): 72-76. “Mimesis.” Poetry Toronto 137 (1987): 22. “Pamela.” Ten poems. Prairie Fire 6.3 (1985): 40-45.“White Catalogue.” Contemporary Verse Two 8.3 (1984): 32. “An erotics of space.” Camrose Review 2 (1982): 12-14. “Poem.” Grain 9.1 (1981): 8.“The Moment of Fruit.” Dandelion 8.1 (1981): 60.“Old Man in the Garden.” Northern Light 6 (1981): 21-22.“Wintering.” Waves 9.2 (1981): 65.“To Gabriel Dumont.” NeWest Review 6.8 (1981): 8.“Poem” and “Letter.” Fort Sanity 6 (1980): 7-8.

Fiction:

“Godiva Rides Again.” Third Prize Winner, Prairie Fire Short Fiction Contest. Prairie Fire 16.4 (1995-96): 79-84.

“Cartoon.” The Dinosaur Review 7 (1985): 28.

CREATIVE NON-FICTION PUBLISHED IN BOOKS: “Believe It or Not.” Country Roads: Memoirs from Rural Canada. Ed. Pam Chamberlain.

Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2010. 145 – 54.

“The Picture Window View of History.” A/Cross Sections: New Manitoba Writing, eds. Andris Taskans and Kate Bitney. Winnipeg: Manitoba Writers Guild, 2007. 65 - 71.

CREATIVE NON-FICTION PUBLISHED IN MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS:

“Urban Palate: Urbocentrism in Some Recent Literary Criticism.” Westword (2006): 29 - 30.

“The Policeman is Your Friend.” Westword (January/February 2006).

“On the Busyness of Writing: A Time-Sensitive Rant.” Westword (July/August2005): 4 - 5.

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“My Father’s Moose.” Second Prize, Prairie Fire Creative Nonfiction Competition. Prairie Fire 25.2 (2004): 119 - 29.

“History as Paradox: Writing Unorganized Territory.” Studies of Canadian Literature 10 (2002): 51 - 59. [Bilingual journal published by the Canadian Literary Society of Japan.]

“Believe It or Not.” Alberta Views 5.3 (2002): 46 - 49.

“Lighting Out.” First Prize, Prairie Fire Creative Non-Fiction / Personal Journalism Competition, 2001. Prairie Fire 22.4 (2001-2002) 6 - 14.

“Inscriptions in Landscape: The Coulee Project.” Invited submission for the inaugural issue of Bemused 1.1 (2001): 6 - 7.

“Happily Ever After.” Prairie Fire 22.1 (2001): 34 - 39. Invited submission for the special issue on David Arnason. Nominated for a Western Magazine Award.

“I Took Piano Lessons from the Virgin Mary.” CBC Radio, Alberta Anthology, broadcast spring 1989. The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature 26 (1996): 17-26.

PUBLIC READINGS:

2008 English Department, University of Alberta (Canada Council reading, with Di Brandt)2008 Poetic Ecologies: Nature as Text and Text as Nature in English-Language Verse

Conference, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, May 14 - 17, 20082007 Writing with Style, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB2007 Thin Air Writers’ Festival, The Forks, Winnipeg, MB2007 The Prairies in 3-D Conference, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB2007 Thin Air Writers’ Festival, St. John’s College, University of Manitoba2007 Writing with Style Program, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB2007 Nan Boothby Library, Cochrane, AB2007 Writers Guild of Alberta (on behalf of Birk Sproxton, recently deceased), Calgary2005 ASLE Conference, Eugene, Oregon, USA2005 AWP Conference, Vancouver, BC2004 Nan Boothby Memorial Library, Cochrane, AB2004 McNally Robinson Booksellers, Calgary2003 Nan Boothby Memorial Library, Cochrane, AB2002 Aichi Arts Centre, Nagoya, Japan2002 Aichi Shukutoku University, Nagoya, Japan2002 Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan2002 Canadian University College, Lacombe (with Aritha van Herk and Fred Stenson)2001 Swan Valley Regional Secondary School, Swan River, MB

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2001 Prairie Fire Wordfest, Winnipeg, May 11 (Canada Council Reading)2001 David Arnason Tribute and Benefit Event2000 Word on the Street, Calgary1998 Launch of Archive for Our Times, by Dorothy Livesay1998 Word on the Street, Calgary 1998 Pages Books, Calgary1998 Orlando Books, Edmonton1998 Red Deer College1996 Strawberry Creek, Alberta1996 Red Deer College, Red Deer1995 Graduate Students of English Association, Edmonton1995 Orlando Books, Edmonton1991 Forest City Gallery, London1991 “Canada: A Challenge,” Third Annual Conference of the Spanish Association for

Canadian Studies, Madrid, Spain CBC Radio (several times)

1990 University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain1988 A.K.A. Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan1985 Liberation Books1985 University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, USA1985 Act 2 Restaurant Reading Series, Winnipeg1984 Liberation Books Reading Series, Winnipeg1983 League of Canadian Poets Reading Series, Mary Scorer Books, Winnipeg1983 Women and Words Conference, University of British Columbia 1982 Broadsheet Launch, Manitoba Writers’ Guild, Ace Art Gallery, Winnipeg1982 “Making Prairie Literature,” St. John’s College Fourth Annual Literary Conference,

University of ManitobaSeveral Manitoba Writers’ Guild conferences

1981 St. John’s College, University of Manitoba1981 Broadsheet Launch, St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba1981 “Plains Songs,” a series of plays and readings, Black Hole Theatre, University of

Manitoba1981 National Book Festival, Winnipeg Art Gallery

WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE:

2007 Faculty, Writing with Style (Memoir), Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB1998 Short-term Writer-in-Residence, Red Deer College1996 Short-term Writer-in-Residence, Strawberry Creek Writers' Retreat, Writers' Guild

of Alberta1996 Short-term Writer-in-Residence, Writing and Publishing Program, Red Deer College,

Red Deer, Alberta

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ARTICLES ABOUT AND REVIEWS OF MY WORK:

Review of Animal Encounters, ed. Tom Tyler and Manuela Rossini, including my article, in JAC 30.3 - 4 (2010): 826 – 34. http://etiennebenson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/2010-benson-jac-review-of-tyler-rossini.pdf

Lindy Thorsen, Interview of Pamela Banting re: my course on Writing the Rural, CBC Saskatchewan, April 6, 2004.

Barb Grinder, “University Course Studies Rural Literature.” The Western Producer, Feb. 12, 2004.

Editors’ note, Rev. of Fresh Tracks: Writing the Western Landscape. Feminist Bookstore News 21.5 (1999): 91.

Dallas Harrison, Rev. of Fresh Tracks: Writing the Western Landscape. Event 28.1 (1999): 117-22.

Margaret Chandler, Rev. of Fresh Tracks: Writing the Western Landscape, Alberta Views 1.4 (1998): 56.

Stew Slater, Rev. of Fresh Tracks: Writing the Western Landscape. SEE Magazine, Sept. 10 - 16, 1998. 19.

John Goodman, Rev. of Fresh Tracks: Writing the Western Landscape and West By Northwest: British Columbia Short Stories, ed. David Stouck and Myler Wilkinson. North Shore News, Aug. 31, 1998. Http://www.nsnews.com/issues98/w083198/books.htm.

Peter Milne, Rev. of Fresh Tracks. The Reader Http://www.literascape.com/Readers/Reader/1998Fall/banting.html.

Wendy Boulding, “Land’s Sakes: New Anthology Fresh Tracks Roots Writers in the Soil,” Prairie Books Now 17 (Summer 1998): 14.

Ken McGoogan, “Alberta’s Beauty Turned the Head of Manitoba Editor,” Calgary Herald, Thursday, July 2, 1998. E4.

Tim Bowling, Rev. of Fresh Tracks: Writing the Western Landscape. Quill and Quire 64.7 (July 1998): 37.

Anne L. Kaufman, "Sinclair Ross's Disappearing Prairie in Contemporary Fiction," Heritage of the Great Plains 31.1 (1998): 35-43.

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Barbara Godard, Rev. of Body Inc.: A Theory of Translation Poetics, English Studies in Canada 24.2 (1998): 224-32.

Sherry Simon, Rev. of Body Inc.: A Theory of Translation Poetics, The Translator 3.2 (1997): 228-30.

Margaret Toye, Rev. of Body Inc.: A Theory of Translation Poetics, Ariel 27.3 (1996): 187-90.

OTHER WRITING RELATED ACTIVITIES:

2009 Jury Member, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Literary Awards2008-09 Judge, Commonwealth Literary Prizes, Canada-Caribbean Region, Best Book 2008,

Best First Book 20082008 Judge, Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Competition, Writers Guild of Alberta2006 Solo judge, Creative Writing Competition, Freefall Magazine.2004 Judge, Writers’ Guild of Alberta, Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Competition2003 Solo judge, Prairie Fire Magazine Literary Journalism / Creative Nonfiction

Competition2002 Judge, Writers’ Guild of Alberta, Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Competition2001 Jury Member, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Writing and Publishing Programs1999 Judge, Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild Awards, Best First Book Award1999 Judge, Writers’ Guild of Alberta, Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Competition1997 Judge, Writers' Guild of Alberta 1996 Awards Program, Best First Book Award1996 Judge, Writers’ Guild of Alberta, Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Competition1992 Conference coordinator (with Frank Davey and Greg Curnoe). Who (?) Means Art?

Symposium. Forest City Gallery, London 1983 Conference organizer for the St. John’s College Fifth Annual Writing Conference:

“REALIGNMENT / REALINEMENT: Narrative in Contemporary Canadian Writing”

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

Founder and President, Association for Literature, the Environment and Culture in Canada (ALECC), 2005 - 2009 Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)Association for Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE)Creative Nonfiction Collective (CNFC)Founder, Environment and Representation Research Group, University of Calgary, 2008

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APPENDIX

I served on the Editorial Advisory Board of House of Anansi Press, Toronto, from 1991-1996.

The following is a list of books published by House of Anansi Press while the four-member editorial advisory board of which I was one was constituted. Those books and mss. scouted, successfully brought to the Press, and edited by me are marked with an asterisk, but board members had input into all books published by Anansi:

Charles Taylor, The Malaise of Modernity, 1991Kristjana Gunnars, The Guest House and Other Stories, 1992Robyn Sarah, The Touchstone: Poems New and Selected, 1992 *Gratien Gélinas, The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux, 1992David Cayley, George Grant in Conversation, 1992David Cayley, Northrop Frye in Conversation, 1992David Cayley, Ivan Illich in Conversation, 1992Diane Engelstad and John Bird, ed., Nation to Nation: Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Future of

Canada, 1992Robert Heilbroner, Twenty-First Century Capitalism, 1992Hugh Hood, Be Sure to Close Your Eyes, 1993Tom Wayman, A Country Not Considered: Canada, Culture, Work, 1993 *Simone Vauthier, Reverberations: Explorations in the Canadian Short Story, 1993 *John Donlan, Baysville: Poems, 1993 *Patricia Young, More Watery Still: Poems, 1993

[nominated for the Governor-General’s Award for poetry]Monty Reid, Crawlspace: New and Selected Poems, 1993

[nominated for the Governor-General’s Award for poetry]Lise Bissonnette, Following the Summer: A Novel, 1993

[nominated for the Governor-General’s Award for translation]H. Nigel Thomas, Spirits in the Dark, 1993 (novel)Wayne Tefs, Dickie, 1993 (novel)Jean Bethke Elshtain, Democracy on Trial, 1993Budge Wilson, The Courtship, 1994Jay Ruzesky, Painting the Yellow House Blue, 1994 (poetry) *John Moss, Enduring Dreams: An Exploration of Arctic Landscape, 1994 (travel

narrative/creative nonfiction/literary criticism)Stan Dragland, Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature of Treaty 9, 1994 *

(biography/native peoples/literary criticism; winner of ACQL Award for Best Book of Literary Criticism for 1994)

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, The Joys of Exile, 1994 (short stories)John Barton, Designs from the Interior, 1994 (poetry)Steven Heighton, The Ecstasy of Skeptics, 1994 (poetry)

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[Nominated for the Governor-General’s Award]Anne Hébert, Burden of Dreams, 1994 (novel)Lorraine M. York, ed., Various Atwoods: Essays on the Later Poems, Short Fiction, and Novels,

1995 (literary criticism) *France Daigle, Real Life, 1995 (novel) *Leo McKay Jr., Like This, 1995 (short stories)Michael Keefer, Lunar Perspectives, (cultural history/sociology/politics) *Alden Nowlan, Selected Poems, edited with an introduction by Patrick Lane and Lorna CrozierAnne Montagnes, Jade Slash Laverna, 1995 (novel) *Hugh Hood, Dead Men’s Watches, (novel)DuoDuo, Crossing the Sea: Poems in Exile/Poems in China 1972-1994, 1995Douglas Burnet Smith, Two Minutes for Holding: Meditations on Love and Other Infractions, 1995 (poetry)Northrop Frye, The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination, Introduction by Linda

Hutcheon, 1995 Esta Spalding, Carrying Place, 1995 (poetry)David Cayley, George Grant in Conversation, 1995Gilbert Érouart, Riopelle in Conversation, 1995Martin Moskovits, ed., Science and Society, 1995 (The John C. Polanyi Nobel Laureate Lectures)John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization, 1995Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone, eds., Essential McLuhan, 1995