Published on Brock University (http://brocku.ca)
Gregory Betts
English Language & Literature
Associate Professor, English Language & Literature
Director, The Centre for Canadian Studies
PhD York
Research Interests:
Canadian Literature, Avant-Garde Literature, Adaptation and Translation Theory, Contemporary Poetry, Canadian Studies, Archival and Editorial Theory
Recent Publications:
Avant-Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
“The Transnational Agenda of Lewis and Pound’s Avant-Garde.” Literature, Geography, Translation: Studies in World Writing. Ed. Cecilia Alvstad, Stefan Helgesson, and David Watson. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 209-220.
“A Postmodern Decadence in Canadian Sound and Visual Poetry.” Re:Reading the Postmodern. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2010. 151-179.
Editor and Introduction. The Wrong World: Bertram Brooker’s Stories and Essays. Ottawa: The University of Ottawa Press, 2009.
“Non compos mentis: A Meta-Historical Survey of the Historiographic Narratives of Louis Riel’s ‘Insanity’”. International Journal of Canadian Studies. 40 (Spring 2009).
Editor and Introduction. Lawren Harris In the Ward: His Poetry and Painting. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2007.
Editor and Introduction. After Exile: A Raymond Knister Poetry Reader. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2003. Second edition 2011.
Remarks:
My current work addresses avant-garde literature in Vancouver from 1961 to 1975, exploring the heteroglossia of aesthetic and political communities that were active in the city during that time: including, amongst others, visual poetry, surrealism, Marxisms, and the lingering legacy of Modernism. I am also working on a scholarly edition of Solomon Allen’s experimental (and until now censored) novel They Have Bodies, as well as bill bissett’s What Fuckan Theory: a study uv langwage (with derek beaulieu).
Select Creative Publications:
The Obvious Flap. With Gary Barwin. Toronto: BookThug, 2011.
Psychic Geographies and Other Topics. Toronto: Quattro Press, 2010.
The Others Raisd in Me. Toronto: Pedlar Press, 2009.
Haikube. With Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegal. Toronto: BookThug, 2006.
If Language. Toronto: BookThug, 2005.
Select Recent Awards:
Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Works in Progress (2011)
SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2010)
Aid to Scholarly Publications (2010)
SSHRC Subgrant (2010)
Jean-Michel Lacroix Award, International Journal of Canadian Studies (2010, Best essay on a Canadian topic)
SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Clusters Grant (2008, Co-Applicant)
SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Queen’s University (2006)
