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Curriculum Vitae
Eric Schmaltz
Formal Education
• PhD, English, York University (In Progress) • MA Text/Community/Discourse, English Language & Literature, Brock University, 2011-2012 • BA (Hon.) English Language & Literature, Brock University, 2006-2011
Distinctions, Awards, and Grants
• SSHRC Joseph Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship: Doctoral, 2013 • Making a Difference Award, St. Catharines Cultural Services (Nominated), 2013 • Literary Readings Grant, Grey Borders Reading Series, Canada Council for the Arts, 2013 • Dean’s Graduate Scholarship, Brock University, 2012 • Kenneth Frederick White Memorial Graduate Scholarship, Brock University, 2012 • Literary Readings Grant, Grey Borders Reading Series, Canada Council for the Arts, 2012 • Dean’s Honour List, Brock University, 2011 • President’s Surgite Award, Brock University, 2011 • Literary Readings Grant, Grey Borders Reading Series, Canada Council for the Arts, 2012 • English Student’s Association Book Prize Award, Brock University, 2010 • Helen S. Bremner and the Bremner Family Memorial Scholarship for English, Brock University, 2009 • Brock Entrance Scholars Award, Brock University, 2006-2007 • Queen Elizabeth II Aiming for the Top Scholarship, Brock University, 2006- 2007
Academic Positions
Teaching Assistant, AP/ EN 1002: Intertextualities, Dr. Stephen Cain, Department of English, York University, Winter 2014
Research Assistant, Dr. Gale Coskan-Johnson, Department of English Language & Literature, Brock University, October 2012-Present
Teaching Assistant ENGL1F97 Literature of Trauma and Recovery, Dr. Sue Spearey, Department of English Language & Literature, Brock University, Fall/Winter 2011- 2012
Research Assistant, Dr. Gregory Betts, Department of English Language & Literature, Schmaltz 2
Brock University, September 2010-September 2012
Scholarly Activity
Publications (refereed)
Articles
““to forget in a body”: Mosaical Consciousness & Materialist Avant-Gardism in bill bissett & Milton Acorn’s unpublished I Want to Tell You Love. (Forthcoming)
“Modernity & The Masturbator: The Non-human Economy, Excess, and Non-Gendered Consciousness in Tarsem Singh’s The Cell (2000).” Science Fiction Film & Television. 6.2 (2013): 203-217. eds. Sherryl Vint & Mark Bould. Print/Web.
Publications (non-refereed)
Edited Collections (Student Creative Writing) lapse. ed. Eric Schmaltz et al. St. Catharines: Missing Button Press, 2010. Print. looking for trees. ed. Eric Schmaltz et al. St. Catharines: Missing Button Press, 2009. Print.
Articles
"After Bird: Notes On and Around The Bird Is the Word." ed. Karl Jirgens. Rampike 21.2 (Fall 2012): 42-46. Print.
Interviews bissett, bill. "I Want to Tell You Love." Interview by Eric Schmaltz. ed. Karl Jirgens and Beatriz Hausner. Open Letter 15.1 (Fall 2012) 58-63. Print.
Book Reviews
“Things to Do With Your Mouth.” Rev. Things to Do With Your Mouth by Divya Victor. Lemon Hound 8 (FORTHCOMING). Web.
“The Red Album.” Rev. The Red Album by Stephen Collis. Lemon Hound 8 (Winter 2014). Web.
“Writing Surfaces.” Rev. Writing Surfaces: The Selected Fiction of John Riddell ed. Lori Emerson & derek beaulieu. Lemon Hound. Winter 2014. Web.
“Please, No More Poetry: The Selected Poetry of derek beaulieu.” Rev. Please, No More Poetry ed. Kit Dobson. Lemon Hound Vol. 5 (Spring 2013). Web.
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“fur(l) parachute.” Rev. fur(l) parachute by Shannon Maguire. Lemon Hound 5 (Spring 2013). Web.
“Asian Skies.” Rev. Asian Skies by Ken Norris. The Bull Calf. 2.1. McGill University. Web.
“Post-Apothecary.” Rev. Post Apothecary by Sandra Ridley. Broken Pencil 54 (Winter 2011). Print.
“Dance, Monster!” Rev. Dance, Monster by Stan Rogal. Broken Pencil 53 (Winter 2011). Print.
“novel.” Rev. novel by bill bissett. Broken Pencil 53 (Winter 2011). Print.
“The Lateral.” Rev. The Lateral by Jake Kennedy. Broken Pencil 51 (Spring 2011): 58-59. Print.
“Poets and Killers.” Rev. Poets and Killers by Helen Hajnoczky. Broken Pencil 51 (Spring 2011): 60. Print.
“Bardy Google” Rev. Bardy Google by Frank Davey. Broken Pencil 51 (Spring 2011): 57-58 Print.
“Confessions of a Reluctant Cougar.” Rev. Confessions of a Reluctant Cougar by Myna Wallin. Broken Pencil 49 (Fall 2010): 52. Print.
“Sex in Russia.” Rev. Sex in Russia by Kenneth Radu. Broken Pencil 49 (Fall 2010): 53. Print.
“The Rose Concordance.” Rev. The Rose Concordance by Angela Carr. Broken Pencil 48 (Summer 2010): 45. Print.
“Kaspoit!” Rev. of Kaspoit! by Dennis E. Bolen. Broken Pencil 47 (Spring 2010): 47. Print.
“The Wolf’s Mouth.” Rev. of The Wolf’s Mouth by Martha Batiz. Broken Pencil 47 (Spring 2010): 60. Print.
“The Best Canadian Poetry in English” The Best Canadian Poetry in English edited by A.F. Moritz. Broken Pencil 47 (Spring 2010): 67. Print.
"The Players." Rev. of The Players by Margaret Sweatman. Broken Pencil 46 (Fall 2010): 48. Print.
“Bone Dream.” Rev. of Bone Dream by Moira McDougall. Broken Pencil Magazine 46 (Winter 2010): 51-52. Print
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"Rudy Can't Fail." Rev. of Rudy Can't Fail, by W. Dipper. Broken Pencil 45 (Fall 2009): 54. Print.
"Jane Again.” Rev. of Jane Again by Wayne Clifford. Broken Pencil 45 (Fall 2009): 60. Print.
Chapbooks
MITSUMI ELEC. CO. LTD.: keyboard poems. Ottawa: above/ground press, 2014. Print.
EVERYDAY IS BLACK FRIDAY. Gauss PDF, 2014. Web.
Leaflets
“Pages Loading.” Calgary: No Press, 2014. Print.
Creative Writing in Journals and Magazines
“Symbiosis” words(on) pages. (Forthcoming)
“3 poems.” Outlandish Zine 1.1 (Spring 2014): 15. Print.
“4 poems.” ti< 2.1 (2013). Web.
“Rifffts 1-3” The Rusty Toque 4 (15 February 2013). Web.
“3 poems.” The Economy. 2 (2012): np. Web.
“an index of niagara falls.” fillingstation. 53 (2012): 38-39. 2012. Print.
“relief/belief.” dead(g)end(er) magazine. 1.1 (2011): np. Print.
“2 poems” Poetry Is Dead. 2.1 (2011): 31 Print.
“basho variation #4” The Incongruous Quarterly. 1.2. (2010): np. Web.
“a sparrow’s bones.” Gloom Cupboard. (2009): np. Web.
“3 poems” Counterexample Poetics. (2009): np.. Web
“4 poems” ditch, poetry. (2008): np. Web.
Creative Writing in Anthologies
“4 poems.” ditch, anthology 4. (2010). Web.
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“1 poem” lapse. St. Catharines, ON: Missing Button Press, 2010. 91. Print.
“1 poem” looking for trees. St. Catharines, ON: Missing Button Press, 2009. 86. Print.
“4 poems” The General. St. Catharines, ON: Missing Button Press, 2008. 74-75. Print.
Presentations
Upcoming
“the killing of speech”: The Sonic-Politics of The Four Horsemen.” Avant-Canada. Brock University. 5-7 November 2014.
Past
“The Noisee Body: Modern Reactions & Eccentricity in the Concrete Poem-Drawings of Judith Copithorne.” ACCUTE. Brock University. 24-27 May 2014.
Vortical Alignments: Finding Vorticism in Daphne Marlatt’s Ana Historic. ACCUTE. Brock University. 24-27 May 2014.
“‘The sparking of the insurrection:’ Protoconceptualism & John Robert Colombo’s The Mackenzie Poems.” Haunted Canada. Trent University & Carleton University. 15- 16 March 2013.
“I Want to Tell You Love: Toward a Materialist Avant-Garde.” Material Meanings. European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies. University of Kent. 7 - 9 September 2012.
“Radical Extensions: Post/Modern Experimentalism in Milton Acorn’s & bill bissett’s unpublished I want to tell you love.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers. Wilfred Laurier & University of Waterloo. 26 – 29 May 2012.
Works in Progress
Editorial Projects
Acorn, Milton. bill bissett. I want to tell you love. Ed. Eric Schmaltz. Toronto: BookThug, 2015. Print.
Other Activity
Workshops (attended)
Digital Editions, Dr. J. Matthew Huculak, Digital Editing in Modernism in Canada, Digital Schmaltz 6
Humanities Summer Institute at University of Victoria, June 3-9 2012.
TA Orientation, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Educational Technologies (CTLET), Summer 2011
Textual Editing in Modernism in Canada, Dr. Zailig Pollock, Trent University, August 2011
TEI Fundamentals, Dr. Julia Wright et al. Digital Editing in Modernism in Canada, Digital Humanities Summer Institute at University of Victoria, June 5-June 12 2011
The Joy (and Ethics) of Not Writing, Toronto New School of Writing, Mark Truscott, Toronto, June 12, 2010
Fearless Poetry: Composing Poems the John Cage Way, Cara Benson, Toronto New School of Writing, Toronto, March 13, 2010
Foundations in Leadership, Brock University Students’ Union, Brock University, Fall 2010
Exhibitions
Textual Artivity (group show). The Human Bean, Cobourg, ONT. 1-30 April 2014.
Braille Babble / Braille Babel (group show). Rodman Hall, St. Catharines, Spring 2013.
Small Feats (group show). Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catharines, Spring 2012.
Exhibitions (curated)
HOW TO READ (by derek beaulieu). Curator. Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catharines, Winter 2013.
The Bird is the Word (featuring work by bill bissett, Steve McCaffery, Judith Copithorne, and others). Co-curated with Stephen Remus. Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catharines, Winter 2012.
Membership in Scholarly Societies
Member, European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, 2012-Present
Graduate Member, Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, 2012- Present
Graduate Associate, Humanities Research Institute, Brock University 2011-2012
Masters Fellow, Editing Modernism in Canada, 2011-2012 Schmaltz 7
Service Activity
Departmental
Graduate Student Representative, English Language & Literature, Brock University, Fall 2011
Editorial Assistant & Administrative Assistant, PRECIPICe, 2007-2009
Undergraduate Mentor, Department of English Language & Literature, Brock University, 2010-2011
University
President, Brock University Creative Writers’ Club, 2008-2010
Community
Member, Steering Committee for Meet the Presses, 2014-Present
Co-Curator, Avant-Garden Reading Series, 2013-Present
Member, Steering Committee for In the Soil Festival, 2012
Chair, Programming & Events Committee, Niagara Artists Centre, 2012-2013
Co-Curator, Grey Borders Reading Series, 2012-Present
Assistant Editor & Production Manager, Arts & Literary V, Niagara Artists Centre, 2012-Present
Chair, Programming Committee, Niagara Artists Centre, 2012-2013
Board of Directors, Niagara Artists Centre, 2011-Present
Curator, Grey Borders Reading Series, 2010-2012