New Books in Canadian Literature

Concordia University Press and the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers in English invite you to a collective book launch to celebrate recent works in the field of Canadian literature published by Canadian university presses. Please join authors in-person or online to hear quick-witted ten-minute talks about their work, how they have engaged with Canadian literary history, and new directions emerging in literary studies. 

Admission is free and open to the public, books will be for sale, and light refreshments will be served. Come hear the following authors discuss their new books and stick around to have a chance to ask questions and or send congratulations!

How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.

Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca

Myra Bloom

Evasive Manoeuvres: Canadian Women's Confessional Writing

Myra Bloom is associate professor of English at Glendon College, York University.

Lindsay Diehl 

Reading with My Grandmother: Chinese Canadian Literature, History, and Family 

Lindsay Diehl is an assistant professor of English at the University of Manitoba.

Sandra Djwa 

Ground to Stand On: A Canadian Literary Life 

Sandra Djwa is professor emerita of English at Simon Fraser University.

Carole Gerson

Literary Life after Death: Commemorations of Writers in English-Speaking Canada

Carole Gerson is professor emerita of English at Simon Fraser University.

Jody Mason

Books for Development: Canada in the Late Twentieth-Century World

Jody Mason is professor of English at Carleton University. 

Kim Trainor

Blue Thinks Itself Within Me: Lyric Poetry, Ecology, and Lichenous Form

Kim Trainor has won the Gustafson Prize, The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize, and The Antigonish Review’s Great Blue Heron Poetry Prize. She lives in Vancouver.

Ryan Van Huijstee (Moderator) 

Director of the Concordia University Press

With thanks to the support of staff from McGill-Queen’s University Press, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, and University of Regina Press.