publications

Book Chapters

“Da Vinci’s Inquest: Post-mortem.” Between Reality and Fiction on Canadian Television, eds. Zoë Druick and Patsy Kotsopoulos. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier Press (2008).

“Consanguinities: Kiyooka’s Reader/s.” Roy Kiyooka: Essays on His Works. Ed. Joanne Saul. Guernica Press. (In Press).

“Swept: 4 Pictures of Jeff Wall,” co-authored with Jerald Zaslove in Locating Memory: Photographic Acts, eds. Kirsten McAllister and Annette Kuhn, Berghan Books, NY and Oxford, 2006.

Afterword. Roy Kiyooka, Transcanada Letters. Ed. Smaro Kamboureli. NeWest Press, 2005.

“Canadian Multiculturalism.” A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Thought in English. eds. Prem Kumar Poddar and David Johnson. Edinburgh UP / Columbia UP, 2005.

“The Representation of ‘Race’ in Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion.” Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje’s Writing. Ed. Steven Totosy de Zepetnek. Purdue UP, 2004.

Articles & Essays

“Asia in the Mix: Urban Mobilities from Hong Kong to Dubai, via Vancouver,” with Eugene McCann and Henry Tsang (forthcoming)

“Detouring the Grand Tour—Venice 52, Documenta 12, Sharjah 8,” with Henry Tsang. Fuse 31.1 (Jan. 2008): 26-36.

“Cultural Citizenship and Writing Post-colonial Vancouver: Daphne Marlatt’s Ana Historic and Wayde Compton’s Bluesprint.” Mosaic 38.3 (Spring 2005).

“‘i missed you in the past tense’: An Introduction to the Poetry of Roy Miki.” Ellipse (Fall 2003).

“Roy Kiyooka’s Transcanada letters: Re: Reading a Poet’s Prose.” West Coast Line 36-2 (Fall 2002).

“Between The English Patients: Remaking CanLit and the Cultural Politics of “Race’” Screening Can Lit. Ed. Peter Dickinson. ECW 76 (Spring/Summer 2002).

“Between Vernaculars: Talking PhotoGraphic Encounters.” Photography, Memory, Community. Eds. Martha Langford and Jerald Zaslove. West Coast Line 35-1 (Spring 2001).

Reviews

“The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock.” Review. Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring 2002): 134-37.

“Surrender by Roy Miki.” X-cp / Cross-Cultural Poetics, No. 11 (Fall 2002): 163-72.

Interviews

“In Conversation with David Hoffos,” Staging Vernaculars, eds. Christina Ritchie, Jennifer Paparo, and Glen Lowry. West Coast Line. No. 50 Vol. 40/2 (Fall 2006).

“Dissent, Tree Stumps, and Bohemianism in Early Modern Vancouver. Interview with Fred Douglas, Jeff Wall and Jerry Zaslove.” Unfinished Business: Photographing Vancouver Street, 1955 to 1985 Vancouver: Presentation House Gallery/West Coast Line, 2005.

Creative Works

“from Sinistrae Fragments” Walrus Magazine (Sept, 2006).

“bluegreen forest – remnants” & “XVII” Shift & Switch: An Anthology of New Canadian Poetry. Eds. a rawlings, Jason Christie, Derek beaulieu. Toronto: Mercury, 2006.

“Uprising,” Companions & Horizons: An Anthology of Simon Fraser University Poetry. Ed. Stephen Collis. Vancouver: WCL Books, 2005.

“photos taken in hand / or stride” & “from Pacific” Poetry. dandelion. 29.1 (Spring 2003).

“bearing witness / 8, chestnuts off Fraser” The News http://www.interchg.ubc.ca/quarterm/TheNews.htm

“3 Primes: 5 + 7” Intermedia Text. dandelion. 28.1 (Spring 2002).

Edited Works

Staging Vernaculars. Co-ed. Christina Ritchie, Jennifer Paparo. West Coast Line. No. 50 Vol. 40/2 (Fall 2006).

Unfinished Business: Photographing Vancouver Street, 1955 to 1985. Co-ed. Bill Jeffries and Jerald Zaslove. Vancouver: Presentation House Gallery/West Coast Line, 2005.

West Coast Lai. A Special Issue celebrating the spaces around the writing of Larissa Lai. With Rita Wong. West Coast Line. 38-2 (Winter 2004-05).

CUT/s BC Culture and Politics. Co-ed. Margot Leigh Butler. West Coast Line. 36-2 (Fall 2002).

In—equations: CanAsiaPacific. Co-ed. Sook C. Kong. West Coast Line 34.3 (Winter 2001).
Scholarly Paper Presentations

“Working to Code: Forensic Affect, Post-Identity Politics, and the Work of Larissa Lai & Rebecca Belmore,” with Joy James. SLSA ’07: CODE. Society for Science, Literature and the Arts. Portland, ME. Nov 1-4, 2007.

“Two False Creeks: Critical Creative,” with Henry Tsang. Panel: Pedagogical Technologies, chairs Zoe Druick and Kirsten McAllister. Union of Democratic Communications Conference, Vancouver 2007: Oct 25-28.

“Two False Creeks: From Vancouver to Dubai and Back,” with Henry Tsang, transCanada Two: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship, University of Guelph, Ontario. Oct 11-14, 2007.

“Two False Creeks,” University of Siegen, with Henry Tsang. Siegen, Germany (June 12, 2007).

“Mediating Dubai: ‘The World’s Fastest Growing City’ On-line and Off,” with Henry Tsang, The New Media Consortium, Spring Online Conference on The Convergence of Web Culture & Video, www.nmc.org (Mar. 2007).

“Podcasting 101: Listen Up!” Workshop Presentation. Electronic Technologies Users Group (ETUG). North Island College, Comox, BC. June, 2006.

“Da Vinci’s Inquest and the Pathologization of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.” Panel: Canadian Television Between Reality and Fiction. Society for Cultural and Media Studies (SCMS). Vancouver, March, 2006.

“On Edge: Art as Critical Statement: A Contemporary West Coast Context.” Artist Statement: Artistic Inquiry and the Role of the Artist in Academe, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops BC, November, 2005.

“Canadian Multiculturalism and Literature.” National Chengchi University, Taipei Taiwan.

“On Location—Potsdam, Detriot and East Vancouver: siting memory in the work of Stan Douglas.” Virtually American? Denationalizing North American Studies, University of Siegen, Germany, October 4-5, 2005.

Participant Presentation. Research Cell 2: Canadian Literature and the Politics of Representation Today. TransCanada: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship. Simon Fraser University & Guelph University, Vancouver BC, June 25, 2005.

“Tuning to Fred Wah’s Music at the Heart of Thinking: Critical Engagements with the Form of
Racialized Writing. ACCUTE Panel: “Writer as Critic,” Chairs Joanne Saul and Christl
Verduyn, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Western Ontario,
London ON. May 28, 2005.

Making Do: Poetics and Tactical Diversity. Co-authored and presented with Larissa Lai and Rita Wong. Poetics and Public Culture. University of Western Ontario, London ON, Mar. 5, 2005.

“Border Crossing as Allusion: Bruce MacDonald’s Highway 61 and the Remaking of Michael
Ondaatje’s Coming Through Slaughter.” Film Across Borders Symposium, University of Bonn. July 16, 2004.

“IntraNations: Old Words, New Work, or On the Limits of Canada.” Canada in the Media. Ersnt Moritz Arnt Unversity, Greifswald, June 11, 2004.

“Re:considering Cultural Production in Vancouver during the 1960s and 1970s: a Discussion of Two Intermedia Texts by Roy Kiyooka.” Panel: After Vietnam: Traces of Exile and Fragments of
Homeland in Canadian Art. College Art Association (CAA), Seattle. Feb. 21, 2004.

“Stan Douglas, Lincoln Clarkes, and the New Urban Frontier: Re:Imaging Vancouver’s
Downtown Eastside.” Conference paper for Culturepoles, Canadian Association of Cultural Studies, McMaster. Feb 13, 2004.

“Re-Membering Citizens: Canadian Multiculturalism and the Haunt of Origins.” Cultural Citizenship. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free U. Berlin: June 20-21, 2003.

“Re: Making ‘(the) difference’ / Thinking (on) context. ‘notes for talk’.” Wahbash—in honour of Fred Wah and Pauline Butling. U. of Calgary, May 2003.

“Cultural Production: Contextualizing ‘Academic Freedom.’ Academic Freedom and Intellectual
Property Rights. SFU, April 2003.

“Ana Vancouver: Whiteness and the space of Marlatt’s ‘lesbian-feminist’ subject” ACCUTE:
Congress of the Learneds, U. of Toronto. May 2002.

“Kiyooka’s Peregrinations: Essaying CanLit, or Wearing out the Poet’s Prose.” ACCUTE. Congress of the Learneds, U. of Laval, 2001.

“Towards the Bomb: On reading Ondaatje and Kiyooka.” Renegotiating Identities. U of Wollongong, Wollongong Australia, July 1-4 2000.

Public Talks/Webcasts

“Podcasting Showcase.” Digcast, BCCampus Webcast, June 8, 2006. http://community.bccampus.ca/expo?go=1290887

“Podcasting 101.” w/ Frank Fucile. Digcast, BCCampus Webcast, June 2, 2006.http://community.bccampus.ca/expo?go=1290887

“Listening Through the Hype,” w/ Frank Fucile. Digcast, BCCampus Webcast. May 25, 2006.
In Conversation with Writer in Residence Larissa Lai. Live Interview. Simon Fraser University. March 7, 2006.

“Podcasting in Education: Practical Applications” with Frank Fucile. BCCampus Webcast, Sept. 27, 2005. http://community.bccampus.ca/expo?go=980597

Respondent. Celebrate Canada Symposium. John F. Kennedy Institute, Frei University, Berlin. July 1, 2004.

“Global Position Saga 1: On oyster beds.” The Aftermath of Identity Politics. Vancouver. June 18, 2002.

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