Short Curriculum Vitae — Glenn Willmott
Queen’s University Department of English Kingston, Ontario Canada K7L 3N6 tel. 613-533-6000, ext. 74645 [email protected]
Education
Ph.D.: Duke University, December 1992.
Dissertation: “Marshall McLuhan: From Modernism to Minimalism.” Supervisor: Fredric R. Jameson, Graduate Program in Literature. Committee: Frank Lentricchia, Department of English; Jane M. Gaines, Program in Film and Video; Arnold E. Davidson, Canadian Studies Center; Regina M. Schwartz, Department of English.
M.A.: English, Duke University, 1989.
B.A.: English and Literary Studies, Honours, Victoria College, University of Toronto, 1987.
Academic Appointments
Since 2004: Professor of English, Queen’s University.
06/2013-06/2016, 01/2012-06/2012: Associate Head of English, Queen’s University.
01/2014-08/2014, 07/2010-12/2010, 07/2007-06/2009, 05/2005-11/2005: Graduate Chair of English, Queen’s University.
01/2011-12/2011: Acting Head of English, Queen’s University.
1993-95: Assistant Professor of English, Dalhousie University (limited-term).
Fellowships, Awards and Scholarships
2016-17: Connections Grant (SSHRC). With Co-Organizers Molly Wallace and Petra Fachinger. “Making Common Causes: Crises, Conflict, Creation, Conversation,” Queen’s University, 15-18 June 2016.
2011-13: Insight Development Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC). With Co-Investigator Yaël R. Schlick. “Reading for Wonder.”
2010: Canterbury Fellowship, Erskine Visiting Scholars Programme, University of Canterbury.
2008-11: Standard Research Grant (SSHRCC). “Modern Animalism.”
2007-14: Strategic Clusters Grant (SSHRCC). “Editing Modernism in Canada.”
2003-06: Standard Research Grant (SSHRCC). “Aboriginal Modernities.”
1997-2000: Standard Research Grant (SSHRCC). “Canadian Modernism.”
Selected Publications (excluding Book Reviews)
Under Review:
“Comics: Worldmaking in the Anthropocene.” Accepted for inclusion in a proposed collection of essays, Modernism and the Anthropocene, ed. Jon Hegglund and John McIntyre. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Forthcoming:
“My Kid Could Do That: Lynda Barry and Subversive Writing for Everyone.” Accepted for inclusion in a proposed collection of essays, Lynda Barry: Seriously Multitalented, ed. Jane Tolmie. University of Mississippi Press.
Books:
Reading for Wonder: Ecology, Ethics, Enchantment. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Modern Animalism: Habitats of Scarcity and Wealth in Comics and Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Modernist Goods: Primitivism, the Market, and the Gift. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
Unreal Country: Modernity and the Canadian Novel in English. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002. Winner of the Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures’ Gabrielle Roy Prize, 2002.
Think of the Earth by Bertram Brooker. Scholarly edition including introduction, notes, annotated bibliography. Toronto: Brown Bear Press, 2000.
McLuhan, or Modernism in Reverse. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.
Book Chapters and Journal Articles:
“The Animalized Character and Style.” Chapter in Animal Comics: Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives, ed. David Herman. Bloomsbury Publications, 2018.
“Comics.” Entry in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Online 2018.
“Oil Tragedy as Modern Genre.” Chapter in Petrocultures, ed. Imre Szeman. McGill- Queen’s University Press, 2017.
“Cat People.” Modernism/Modernity 17.4 (2010): 839-56. Published 2011.
“Modernism, Economics, Anthropology.” In Pamela Caughie, ed., Disciplining Modernism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. 197-209.
“In the Time of Theory, the Timeliness of Modernism.” In Modernism and Theory: A Critical Debate, ed. Stephen Ross. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. 127- 36.
“The Birth of Tragedy in Digital Aesthetics.” In Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema, ed. Susan Lord and Janine Marchessault. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Pp. 210-27.
“Modernism and Aboriginal Modernity: The Appropriation of Products of West Coast Native Heritage as National Goods.” Essays on Canadian Writing 83 (2004): 75-139. Published in 2005.
“Sheila Watson, Aboriginal Discourse, and Cosmopolitan Modernism.” The Canadian Modernists Meet, ed. Dean Irvine. University of Ottawa Press, 2005. Pp. 101-116.
“Afterword.” My Father’s Kingdom: The Complete Short Stories of Sheila Watson. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2004. Pp. 87-98.
“Postmodern Tragedy: Family in Native Literature.” University of Toronto Quarterly 71.4 (2002): 892-908.
“Canadian Ressentiment.” New Literary History 32.1 (2001): 133-56.
“Bad Multiplicity.” Essays on Canadian Writing 71 (2000): 37-47.
“Paddled by Pauline.” Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 46 (2000): 43-68.
“The Cost of a Drink in Mariposa.” Essays on Canadian Writing 68 (1999): 46-77.
“The Nature of Modernism in Sheila Watson’s Deep Hollow Creek.” Canadian Literature 146 (1995): 30-48.
“O Say, Can You See: The Handmaid's Tale in Novel and Film.” In Various Atwoods, ed. Lorraine M. York (Toronto: Anansi, 1995): 167-90.
“‘and was Ezra Pound ours?’: A Commentary on Canto XC.” Paideuma 21.3 (1992): 103-108.
“Implications for a Sartrean Radical Medium: From Theatre to Cinema.” Discourse 12.2 (1990): 29-47.
Professional Roles
Vice President, Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada Past President, Canadian Society for the Study of Comics Editorial Board, Canadian Literature Collection, University of Ottawa Press
Literary Executor, Estate of Sheila Watson