Jason Camlot’s critical works include Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings (Stanford 2019), Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic (Routledge 2008), and the co-edited collections, CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (with Katherine McLeod, McGill Queen’s UP, 2019) and Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century (Véhicule 2007). He is also the author of four collections of poetry, Attention All Typewriters, The Animal Library, The Debaucher, and What the World Said. He is the principal investigator and director of The SpokenWeb <www.spokenweb.ca>, a SSHRC-funded partnership that focuses on the history of literary sound recordings and the digital preservation and presentation of collections of literary audio. He is Professor of English and Concordia University Research Chair (CURC, Tier I) in Literature and Sound Studies.
Education
PhD (1998)—Department of English, Stanford University, Stanford, California, U.S.A.
MA (1991)—Graduate Program in English, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
BA (1990)— English (Major), Western Civilization Studies (Major) & Creative Writing (Minor), Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Research and teaching interests
Literature and Sound Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth Century Print Culture and Rhetoric, Media History, Sound Recording, Elocution and Recitation, Contemporary American and Canadian Poetry, Poetry as a Genre, Romantic Literature, Creative Writing: Poetry.
Grants / research projects / honors and awards
ACTIVE FUNDING
· Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Insight Development Grant, (Jason Camlot, PI), “Archive of the Digital Present for Online Literary Performance in Canada (COVID-19 Pandemic Period),” 1 July 2021 – 31 August 2023. ($71,185)
· Tier 1 Concordia University Research Chair in Literature and Sound Studies, (Jason Camlot, Chair), Concordia University Vice President Research and Graduate Studies, and Faculty of Arts and Science, 1 June 2019 – 31 May 2024 ($100,000: $20,000 per year for five years)
· John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), (Jason Camlot, PI), “The Amplitude Lab (AMPLab) for Literary Sound Studies,” 1 May 2019-31 August 2020. ($200,000)
· Horizon Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant (Concordia University), (Jason Camlot, PI, Steven High, Co-Applicant), “Oral Literary History: Archives of Literary Performance, Oral History and Sound Studies,” 1 June 2019 - 31 May 2021. ($40,000)
· Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Partnership Grant, (Jason Camlot, PI). “The SpokenWeb: Conceiving and Creating a Nationally Networked Archive of Literary Recordings for Research and Teaching,” 2018-2025. ($2.5 million)
· Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Partnership Grant LOI, (Jason Camlot, PI), “The SpokenWeb: Conceiving and Creating a Nationally Networked Archive of Literary Recordings for Research and Teaching.” Invitation to submit to the Partnership Grant competition, 2017-2018. ($19,273)
· Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Insight Grant, (Jason Camlot, PI), “The Richler Library Project: Historicizing, Processing, Developing and Theorizing the Author’s Personal Library as Collection,” 2017-2022. ($227,713)
HONOURS AND AWARDS
· Finalist for Awards for Excellence in Recorded Sound Research, for Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings (Stanford, 2019), Association for Recorded Sound Collections, June 2020.
· Concordia University Research Chair in Literature and Sound Studies (Tier 1), 1 June 2019 – 31 May 2024.
· Donald Gray Prize for Best Essay Published in the field of Victorian Studies (in 2015), for “Historicist Audio Forensics: The Archive of Voices as Repository of Material and Conceptual Artefacts,” 19: Interdiscplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 21 (2015), North American Victorian Studies Association, 2016.
· Prix L’Académie de la vie littéraire, for What The World Said, 2014
· Finalist, ReLit Awards (Poetry), for What The World Said, 2014
· Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow, Queen Mary University of London, May-June 2013
· Concordia University Newsmaker of the Week, Concordia Communications Services, for coverage of The Victorianator in the New Yorker, Wired, Globe & Mail, etc. August 2011.
· Finalist, Expozine Alternative Press Awards 2009, Best English Book, for The Debaucher
· Finalist, Gabrielle Roy Prize 2007 (Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures), for Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century (Véhicule Press, 2007)
· Finalist, Quebec Writer's Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry 2000, for The Animal Library (DC Books, 2000)
