Applications should include a brief letter of interest and a CV, emailed to cl.manager@ubc.ca by April 15th.

More info at the link in bio.

Junior and untenured scholars, as well as those working at institutions without graduate students, are welcome to apply. Like the other associate editor roles, the position does not come with remuneration.

📚 The Canadian Literature Editorial Board seeks to appoint a new book reviews editor.

The current book reviews editor, Nick Bradley (UVic) is stepping down after working with the journal for nearly eleven years. Thank you, Nick, for your work and for your longstanding support of the journal!

A reminder that the submissions deadline for our Authoritarianism, Anti-fascism, and Literary Resistance special issue is June 1, 2026 (PT), just two months away! See link in bio for the Call for Papers and submission guidelines.

Order your copy of issue 262 at the link in our bio. Happy reading!

This issue features articles by Alex Prong, Drew McEwan, Joey Mauro, Christine Campana, and Smaro Kamboureli and Norma Dunning; an Opinions & Notes piece by Julie Rak; new Canadian poetry; and twelve book reviews!

I also welcome essays that engage and analyze the archive to help us all understand the importance of history. I also welcome submissions of essays on the 'bigger picture,' that is, essays that go beyond close reading a text or set of texts.”

The essays in this issue, for example, focus entirely on literary works written in the past three decades. At a moment when history and historical precedents are being erased, when we are striving to decolonize and to expand the range of voices at the table,

Going forward, I welcome submissions on literary and cultural objects produced in or about the lands known as Canada—the mandate described on the journal’s website—particularly in areas that haven’t received much attention in the journal recently.

“I’m excited about—and feel honoured by—the prospect of shepherding Canadian Literature through the next two years. Previous editors-in-chief consolidated Canadian Literature’s status as the most prestigious peer-reviewed journal in which to publish scholarship on Canadian literature.

We are thrilled to announce that issue 262 of Canadian Literature is now live!

In her first Canadian Literature editorial, Editor-in-Chief Mary Chapman writes:

Applications should include a brief letter of interest and a CV, emailed to cl.manager@ubc.ca by April 15th.

More info at the link in bio.

Junior and untenured scholars, as well as those working at institutions without graduate students, are welcome to apply. Like the other associate editor roles, the position does not come with remuneration.

The book reviews editor will take responsibility for Canadian Literature’s book reviews in both its quarterly issues and on our website and, ideally, will be appointed for a three-year term (July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2029).

📚 The Canadian Literature Editorial Board seeks to appoint a new book reviews editor.

The current book reviews editor, Nick Bradley (UVic) is stepping down after working with the journal for nearly eleven years. Thank you, Nick, for your work and for your longstanding support of the journal!

What models for relationship-building and dialogue across solitudes should we be cultivating as scholars of these literatures?"

Submission deadline: Dec. 15, 2026 (PT)
✨Read the full call for papers and submission guidelines at the link in bio.

Should Québécois literature be considered within the framework of CanLit, or does its autonomy—paradoxically reinforced by its exclusion—remain its true political and critical strength? How do Indigenous literatures extend, complicate, and challenge these more recent national imaginaries?

"[W]e propose to open a series of cross-pollinating discussions between anglophone and francophone, Indigenous and settler scholars, guided by these broad questions: What is the relationship between Indigenous, Québecois, and Canadian literatures?

🖊✨Call for Papers! We are now accepting papers between 7,000-8,000 words (in either English or French) for a forthcoming special issue, "From One Solitude to Another: Dialogues around Québécois Literature, Indigenous Literatures, and CanLit," guest-edited by Marie-Andrée Bergeron and Sarah Krotz.

(Photo in issue of Y-Dang eating noodles in Hanoi, taken by her partner, Chris.)

Thank you to everyone who coordinated, participated in, and attended the special screening and issue launch of Swirling into a Field of Life: Works in Conversation with Y-Dang Troeung. Audio recordings of contributors reading their work can now be found on our website at the link in bio!

Did you know that you can receive notifications when new Canadian Literature issues are published? Sign up by visiting "Find Us on OJS" at the link in our bio, and clicking "Register" at the top of the page!

The symposium will take place May 11-13, 2026, at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Alberta (dates TBC).

Learn more at the link in bio!

Symposium attendants will have the chance to participate in writing workshops to develop their short papers into submissions for an upcoming Canadian Literature special issue on contemporary publishing.

‼ Upcoming Call for Participants Deadline ‼
A reminder that the deadline to submit 200-word abstracts for Dr. Julie Rak's symposium on Studying Contemporary Canadian Publishing is January 20th, 2026. Abstracts and bios are to be submitted to jrak@ualberta.ca.

Organized in partnership with Canadian Literature, this event will continue the sustained and vigilant remembrance of the beloved scholar, author, and filmmaker, Y-Dang Troeung (1980-2022).
See link in bio for more info and to RSVP.

UBC Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies program (ACAM) and Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement (ACRE) invite you to a special screening + special issue launch event, Swirling into a Field of Life: Works in Conversation with Y-Dang Troeung on February 3, 2026!

Order your copy of issue 261 at the link in our bio and stay tuned for more information about an upcoming event featuring some of this issue's contributors. Happy reading!

Guest-edited by Christopher B. Patterson and Vinh Nguyen and featuring incredible articles, images, forum contributions, and poetry, this issue honours the life and legacy of the beloved scholar, author, and filmmaker Y-Dang Troeung (1980-2022).

We are so pleased to share our newest issue of Canadian Literature, issue 261, Swirling into a Field of Life: Works in Conversation with Y-Dang Troeung.