Karis Shearer

Dr. Karis Shearer is an Associate Professor in English & Cultural Studies at UBC Okanagan, where her research and teaching focus on literary audio, the literary event, the digital archive, book history and women’s labor within poetry communities.

She is the editor of All These Roads: The Poetry of Louis Dudek (WLUP, 2008) and has published essays on Sina Queyras’s feminist blog Lemonhound, George Bowering’s little magazine Imago and Michael Ondaatje’s The Long Poem Anthology. Dr. Shearer is the author of a chapter on gendered labor and the Vancouver Poetry Conference in the book CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (McGill-Queens UP, 2020) and she is the co-editor, with Deanna Fong, of Wanting Everything: The Collected Works of Gladys Hindmarch (Talonbooks, 2020).

She directs the AMP Lab and serves as a Governing Board member and lead UBCO researcher for the SpokenWeb SSHRC Partnership Grant.

Dr. Shearer held the 2010-11 Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at Vanderbilt University and led the development of the Digital Arts & Humanities Theme of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies program in collaboration with colleagues from multiple departments across two UBC faculties.

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