I’m chairing an online symposium for the Literary Education Lab in collaboration with Stella. Speakers: Ellen van Neerven Professor Tony Birch Professor Kathryn Yusoff Here’s the Blurb: Climate change has been identified … Read More
I will be giving a lecture on research-creation, hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC) Performance and Writing Working Group at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada on November … Read More
I have been awarded a DECRA (Discovery Early Career Research Award) from the Australian Research Council. The three-year project will investigate how youth create science fictions in order to think critically about … Read More
My book Feminist Speculations and the Practice of Research-Creation: Writing Pedagogies and Intertextual Affects is coming out in September, 2021. Here’s the background on it and some endorsement blurbs. Feminist Speculations and the Practice … Read More
As part of an international series of speakers, organized by Vivienne Bozalek and Candace Kuby, I answer a set questions on this video about qualitative research methodology, and offer some exemplifications from some … Read More
Colleagues and I have a new article out in Discourse. Here’s the abstract: This paper thinks with the concept of intertextuality to consider themultiple intersecting power structures inside and outside of literaryeducation … Read More
We have a new project at WalkingLab running from March-June 2021. We invite you to imagine this future otherwise through a community-led, collective, and iterative walking research-creation gesture on place. We’d like … Read More
WalkingLab (Stephanie Springgay and I) have made a series of podcasts to render our critical walking methodologies in audio form. They’re available on the WalkingLab Website, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Transcripts are … Read More
This webinar is the third in MSSI’s Environmental Arts & Humanities Network seminar series. In this series scholars, artists and storytellers reflect on ways environmental arts and humanities can provoke deep engagement … Read More
Launch for the self-guided audio version of the tour co-organized by WalkingLab and RiVal in 2019 as part of the Toronto’s Biennial of Art.
Liz de Freitas and I have a new article out (open access) in Qualitative Inquiry: https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800420943643 Here’s the abstract: Interest in new empiricisms and transdisciplinary methods has led many social inquirers to … Read More
I have been invited to give an online lecture as part of a series on Post-Qualitative Inquiry organized by: Dr. Vivienne Bozalek, University of the Western Cape, South Africa Dr. Candace Kuby, … Read More
This paper is prompted by my experience as a researcher of English literary education in three different geographies over the past three years: Canada, the United Kingdom and now Australia. In response … Read More
Liz de Freitas and I have an an article out in Rhizomes. Abstract: This article draws on the ideas of Bruno Latour to examine the nature of science dis/trust and denialism in … Read More
Pleased to announce that Stephanie Springgay and I have been awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant ($250, 366) to continue our research with WalkingLab. The grant: “Critical Walking Methodologies of Place: Research-Creation with … Read More
Colleagues and I have published an article in Reading Research Quarterly’s special issue on literacy and affect theory: (PDF)
Article on our Teacher-Researchers Project at the Literary Education Lab out in Gender & Education: (PDF)
David Ben Shannon and I have an article out where we trouble sound studies’ inheritances using the feminist new materialisms and research-creation: (PDF)
A round-table I organized with some of Canada’s leading research-creation scholars: Natalie Loveless, Erin Manning, Natasha Myers, and Stephanie Springgay has been published in Chapter in Knowings & Knots: Methodologies & Ecologies of … Read More
Our Literary Education Lab at University of Melbourne was asked to suggest 5 books for summer reading. We decided to choose 5 Australian books written in the past 5 years, by diverse … Read More
My entry in Sage Research Methods Encyclopedia on the Feminist New Materialisms has been published. A version is available on my Publications page for those who cannot get behind the paywall. … Read More
WalkingLab and Rival have teamed up with the Toronto Biennial of Art to curate a walk for art, activism and inquiry in Toronto’s financial district. I’ll be in Toronto for the … Read More
WalkingLab will be part of the Toronto Biennial of Art this autumn with our walk on October 5th: The bank, the mine, the colony, the crime: A walk for the radical imagination against … Read More
The Pilot Project (May 2019) of the Teacher-Researchers Project supported five secondary English teachers in Victoria to undertake a week-long literary research project drawing on the resources of the University of Melbourne … Read More
I have a new article out in cultural geographies entitled ‘Queer Walking Tours and the affective contours of place.’ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1474474019842888 Here’s the abstract: This article outlines a method we call Queer Walking … Read More
My article Inhuman literacies and affective refusals: Thinking with Sylvia Wynter and secondary school English was just released in Curriculum Inquiry. It’s part of a special issue on Sylvia Wynter: https://doi.org/10.1080/03626784.2018.1549465 Here’s … Read More
An article about my research on speculative fiction has been published in a special issue on Donna Haraway in Studies in Philosophy & Education. Here is the abstract: This article draws on … Read More
David Ben Shannon and I as Oblique Curiosities will be co-convenors of a seminar series at the Affect Society’s Summer School ‘Animations and Provocations’ this year in Lancaster, PA. Our seminar … Read More
I have a new publication in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education entitled ‘Counterfuturisms and speculative temporalities: walking research-creation in school.’ Here is the abstract: In education, walking has typically … Read More
I will be giving a public lecture with Stephanie Springgay (WalkingLab) on Walking Research-Creation as Queer Temporalities at Concordia University’s Centre for Sensory Studies. December 3rd, 2018. See the poster for details.
I’m delivering three papers at AERA in Toronto this April. See you there! Speculative Fiction Workshops and STEM Imaginaries: Exploring More-Than-Human Sympathy Through Literary Texts (Sunday April 7th at 9:55, … Read More
On August 10th, 2018 more than 60 participants joined WalkingLab for Stone Walks Lancaster: Militarisms, migration, and speculative geology, in Lancaster, PA. The walk included ‘pop-up’ lectures and artistic interventions into … Read More
David Ben Shannon and I have an article and 10 sonic cultures (songs) published in Capacious Journal. The project is based on our long distance walk along St. Cuthbert’s Way. Check … Read More
I have four papers at AERA in NYC. Come and say hello! Walking as methodological intervention into English language arts. Symposium on Friday April 13th. Affective Impasses: The Art of Refusing to … Read More
I’ll be delivering a Keynote and working with JustEd at the University of Helsinki. Here’s a link to the event: http://www.justed.org/seminar-working-with-and-for-social-justice/ My Abstract. In this paper, I consider how literacy, and education … Read More
Walking Methodologies in a More-than-Human World: WalkingLab, which I co-authored with Stephanie Springgay, is out January 2018! Here’s the blurb: As a research methodology, walking has a diverse and extensive history in … Read More
An article by Manchester Metropolitan University about my SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship on reading and writing speculative fiction with youth.
My electronic music duo Oblique Curiosities (with David Ben Shannon) has an album coming out. We’ve posted a couple of songs on SoundCloud as a taster.
Stephanie Springgay and I have a new article out in Body & Society. In this piece we engage with (Bek) Rebecca Conroy’s subversive and hilarious sonic art piece, trans theories, and talk … Read More
I will be running a series of Itinerant Reading Salons with WalkingLab in Iceland throughout August.
Post-Qual Math: A satirical exploration of a serious problem for qualitative research, art, and philosophy.
A proposition? A promise? A prayer? For the Post-Qualitative turn:
Stephanie Springgay and I have a new article out in Qualitative Inquiry: On the Need for Methods Beyond Proceduralism: Speculative Middles, (In)Tensions, and Response-Ability in Research. Here’s the Abstract: This article responds … Read More
WalkingLab has a fabulous walk coming up on April 1st on the Bruce Trail in Hamilton, ON.
My creative non-fiction piece Dinner with the Dycks was published in TRANSverse Journal. Check it out!
As part of our research with WalkingLab , Stephanie Springgay and I are writing a book for Routledge and a series of articles. Here is the first article: Stone Walks: inhuman animacies … Read More
A research-creation article I wrote for the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy has been published. The article is a piece of creative non-fiction as research-creation framed by some theorizing on new materialisms. … Read More
Pedagogical Matters: New Materialisms & Curriculum Studies, a book I edited with the brilliant Nathan Snaza, Debbie Sonu, and Zofia Zaliwska, is out with Peter Lang. Get a copy!
Read my article on how school sucks for non-human animals in the latest issue of Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.
My walking group, the Hamilton Perambulatory Unit will be in Montreal leading one of our famous strata-walks! Visit Articule’s site for more details.
I’m an invited lecturer with Dr. Stephanie Springgay for two talks this coming spring (well Autumn in the southern hemisphere!) We’ll be discussing Stephanie’s SSHRC-funded research-creation project WalkingLab which I … Read More
WalkingLab, a research-creation project I’m acting as Lead Research Officer on, is running a series of events in Australia this year: June 5th, 2016, 10am-12pm The Warren Run A selection of runners … Read More
Stephanie Springgay and I wrote a chapter in this book entitled, “Propositions for Walking Research.” The book, Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Arts Arts is out now by Routledge.
Following Alfred North Whitehead, Stephanie Springgay and I made propositional buttons for our contribution to Theory Boner. Propositions probe what could be, lure feeling, and look great on blazers at academic conferences. … Read More
Strata-Walk (Victoria Street/Avenue Version) By Hamilton Perambulatory Unit Hamilton Perambulatory Unit (HPU) invites you out on a stratigraphic walk to map … Read More
My chapter, The Despondency (Qi Xia Temple) has been published in Sumeru’s Anthology Lotus Petals in the Snow: Voices of Canadian Buddhist Women.
Stephanie Springgay and I wrote a chapter in this book entitled, “The Primacy of Movement in Research-Creation: New Materialist Approaches to Art Research and Pedagogy.” The book, Art’s Teaching Teaching’s Art: Philosophical, … Read More
I’m co-coordinating Massey College’s Book History & Print Culture Annual Colloquium on March 5th, 2016. The topic is From Reinforcement to Resistance: Books as Cultural Agents & (De)Colonial Agents. Tell all of … Read More
From August 2nd-6th, 2015, composer David Ben Shannon and I will walk St. Cuthbert’s Way along the border of Scotland and England. We plan to document our walk in part through writing … Read More
On Wednesday July 8th, as part of Manchester Metropolitan University’s Summer Institute for Qualitative Research, I’m leading a post-industrial walk through Manchester to visit The Salford Lads Club. In 1984 the photograph … Read More
My article, Reading, Writing and Materialisation: An Autobiography of an English Teacher in Vignettes, was published in English in Australia. It’s likely behind academic firewalls but if you have access to a … Read More
WalkingLab, the project at OISE I work as a Research Fellow on, is hosting a 4 day workshop with British GPS artist, Jeremy Wood. It’s free, and anyone can sign up! November … Read More
October 22nd, 2014. Contemplate Campus on Foot: I’m running a walking workshop at Hart House, University of Toronto, as part of their Slow Down initiative. We’ll begin with a brief introduction to different … Read More
Read my article Gathering the Fruits of Idleness in Hamilton Arts & Letters’ “North of Where?” issue.
Life Rattle Press just released a podcast of my trucking story, The Sleet Storm.
Ryan McGreal’s article “Flâneur for a Day in Downtown Hamilton,” in Raise the Hammer about the HPU’s Km2 walks.
During the walk, Hamilton Perambulatory Unit members perambulated through the Hamilton Farmer’s Market with a rough map in hand. Their task was to document the different “scents” they smelled within the market … Read More
Splinterswerve published an excerpt from my book Searching for Guanyin.
Here’s a review of my book Searching for Guanyin in Lion’s Roar,
Join me for a public talk and reading from my book at The Bookworm International Literary Festival, Chengdu. March 18th, 2012 (2pm) ¥50
An excellent review of my book Searching for Guan Yin in Shambhala Sun.