[July 2011] JASON CAMLOT Associate Professor & Chair English Department, LB 641 Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8 Telephone: (514) 848-2424 x2353 E-Mail: [email protected] http://jasoncamlot.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT ______________________________________________________________________ Concordia University, 1999-present Associate Professor, Department of English, 2004-present Assistant Professor, Department of English, 1999-2004 Lecturer/Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of English, Stanford University, 1998-1999 ______________________________________________________________________ ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE ______________________________________________________________________ Concordia University, Department of English Chair, 2008-present Graduate Program Director, 2004-2006 ______________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION ______________________________________________________________________ Stanford University, 1992-1998 Ph.D. English 1998 Boston University, 1990-1991 M.A. English, 1991 Concordia University, 1986-1990 B.A. English, Western Society and Culture, with distinction and Canada Celanese Prize in English, 1990 1 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ RESEARCH GRANTS ______________________________________________________________________ • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada Grant (201-400 participants), (Jason Camlot, Applicant), “Victorian Scale and Perspective: An International Conference.” 2010. ($23,770.00). • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Research Development Initiative (RDI) Grant, (Jason Camlot, Principal Investigator, Darren Wershler Co-Applicant), “The SpokenWeb 2.0: Conceptualizing and Prototyping a Comprehensive Web-Based Digital Spoken-Word Archive Interface for Literary Research.” 2010-2012. ($39,692.00). • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Image, Text Sound & Technology (ITST) Grant, (Jason Camlot, Principal Investigator), “RECITE: Exploring and Developing Digital Tools for the Analysis and Interactive Use of Literary Spoken Recordings.” 2010-2012. ($49, 980.00). • Canadian Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE): Graphics, Animation and New Media (GRAND). Collaborative Researcher. (Kelley Booth, Director. Lynn Hughes and Bart Simon, Project Leaders). “Play and Performance in Game-Based Gestural Interfaces.” 2010- 2015. ($6,500.00) • VPRGS Research Grant 2009-2010 (FAS & Office of Research and Graduate Studies), “The SGWU Poetry Series in Context, 1965-1972.” ($7000) • FQRSC Team Research Grant, Co-Applicant. (Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Applicant). “Technologies, médias et représentations en Angleterre et en France au 19-ième siècle.” 2009-2011, ($52,000.00). • FQRSC Team Research Grant, Collaborator. (Lianne Moyes, Applicant). “La literature anglo-québécoise: institutions, texts, traductions, territorialités.” 2009-2011, ($53,00.00) • VPRGS Events Grant (FAS & Office of Research and Graduate Studies) 2008-2009, ($3000). • Arts & Science GRF Research Grant, 2007-2008, ($3000). • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Standard Research Grant, 2004-2007, ($46,155.00). • Quebec Research Foundation Grant (FCAR), Nouveaux Chercheurs Grant, 2001-2004, ($41,190.00) • CASA SSHRC Grant. Concordia University. 2003-2004. ($6000.00) • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Standard Research Grant 2003, Recommended for Funding (4A) Category. No money awarded. • Quebec Research Foundation Grant (FCAR), Equipment Grant, 2001-2002, ($5000.00) • Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Special One-Time Institutional Grant, 1999-2000, ($4,290.00) • FRDP Phase II, Research Grant, Concordia University, 1999-2001, ($16,000.00) • FRDP Phase I, Start-up Grant, Concordia University, 1999-2000, ($5000.00) • Post-Doctoral Scholarship in English, Stanford University, 1998-99 • Cogswell Dissertation Fellowship, Stanford University, 1997-98 • Andrew Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship, 1996-97 • Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship, 1992-96 2 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ AWARDS ______________________________________________________________________ • 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). _____________________________________________________________________ PUBLICATIONS ______________________________________________________________________ BOOKS Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic. Aldershot, U.K. and Bulington, U.S.A: Ashgate Publishing, 2008. ISBN: 0 7546 5311 0 Reviews: Victorian Studies 51 (Winter 2009) Sharp News 18 (Summer 2009) Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 2.2 (Winter 2010) Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century. Ed. Jason Camlot and Todd Swift. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 2007. ISBN 1550652257 EDITED VOLUMES “Anglo-Quebec Poetry.” Editor of a special issue of Canadian Poetry 64 (2009) ISSN 0704- 5647. REFEREED ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS “tickertext1: New Media Poetics of Occasion.” Canadian Journal of Communication [forthcoming] “The Three Minute Victorian Novel: Early Adaptations of Books to Sound.” Audiobooks, Sound Studies and Literature. Ed. Matthew Rubery. New York, NY and Oxon, UK: Routledge. 24-43. “(Im)possible Conditionals: Anglo-Quebec Poetry/la poésie anglo-québècoise.” Canadian Poetry 64 (2009): 5-22. "Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 'The Charge of the Light Brigade’ (1854).” Victorian Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies 35 (2009): 27-32. 3 of 25 "Anglo-Québec Poetry (b.1976 - )." In Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century Ed. Jason Camlot and Todd Swift (Montreal: Véhicule Press, 2007), pp. 13-34. "Anglo-Québec Poetry Periodicals c1976-2006: An Annotated Bibliography." In Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century. Ed. Jason Camlot and Todd Swift (Montreal: Véhicule Press, 2007), pp. 341-373. “The Victorian Critic as Naturalizing Agent.” ELH 73 (2006): 489-518. “Poetry and Performance” and “Micheal McClure.” A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Ed. Burt Kimmelman (New York: Facts on File, 2005), pp 391-4, 308. “Early Talking Books: Spoken Recordings and Recitation Anthologies, 1880-1920.” Book History 6 (2003): 147-173. “Mammals and Machines: Michael McClure’s Embodying Poetics.” Atenea 23(1) (June 2003):53-68. “The Victorian Postmodern.” Postmodern Culture 13.1 (2002): n.p. [4,000 words] “’The Talk’ as Genre: David Antin, Apostrophe and the Institution of Poetry.” Recherches Semiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry 22(1-2-3) (2002): 275-291 “American Poetry In Public and In Private.” Journal of Literature and Aesthetics 2(1) (Jan-June 2002): 65-77 “Style and Victorian Criticism: John Ruskin’s Political Economy of Literature.” Signatures 3 (2001): 25-45. "John Stuart Mill and Rhetoric: The Perspicuous Account of Truthful Obscurity." Nineteenth- Century Prose 27(2) (Fall 2000):191-207. "The Character of the Periodical Press: John Stuart Mill and Junius Redivivus in the 1830s." Victorian Periodicals Review 32(3) (Summer 1999): 166-176. ESSAYS & INTERVIEWS “The Couch Poetato: Television People in the Poetry of David McGimpsey.” Population Me: Essays on David McGimpsey. Ed. Alessandro Porco. Toronto: Palimpsest Press, 2010. “‘Gone A-Whalin’: An Interview with David McGimpsey.” Jason Camlot and Alessandro Porco. Population Me: Essays on David McGimpsey. Ed. Alessandro Porco. Toronto: Palimpsest Press, 2010. "Anglo-Québec Poetry." Books in Canada (April 2007): 37. "The Vehicule Poets and Second Generation Postmodernism: A Collaborative Essay With Questions." Co-Authors: Ken Norris, Jason Camlot, Todd Swift. Poetics.ca 7 (Spring 2007), n.p. < http://www.poetics.ca/poetics07/Camlotland-review.html> 4 of 25 “Introduction to the Theory of the Loser Class.” The Danforth Review (April 2006): n.p. <http://www.danforthreview.com/features/special/loser_class.htm> “Former Human Beings: Anti-Nostalgia in the Art of Betty Goodwin.” Matrix Magazine 71 (2005): 32-37. "Frank Lentricchia's Don Delillo: 'Introducing', Postmodern Modernism and the Academic Fear of Death." Perival (Nov 2002): n.p. <http://perival.com/delillo/camlot_delillo.html> "Genre and Identity: Using Magazines to Teach Writing and Thinking." Notes in the Margins (Spring 1999): 8-10, 31. BOOK REVIEWS “Recapturing Past Glory: The Recent Revival of Anglo-Quebec Fiction.” Review of Linda Leith’s Writing in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to Blue Metropolis. Literary Review of Canada 19.3 (June 2011): 9-10 "Tulpa, by Louise Bak." Matrix 70 (2005): 61. “Victorian Soundscapes, by John M. Picker.” Victorian Studies 46.4 (Summer 2005): 73-75. "Metaphors of Change in the Language of Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Scott, Gaskell, and Kingsley, by Megan Perigoe Stitt; Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century, by Stephen G. Alter." Victorian Studies 44.1 (Autumn