Karina Vernon
Karina Vernon is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto Scarborough where she researches and teaches in the areas of Canadian and Black Canadian literature, Black aesthetics, archives, critical pedagogy, and Black-Indigenous solidarities. She is editor of The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology, published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in 2020 and a companion volume, Critical Readings in the Black Prairie Archives, which is forthcoming in 2022. She is in the early stages of a five-year SSHRC-funded project “Black Art and the Aesthetics of Spatial Justice,” which seeks to understand how mid-century urban renewal projects that destroyed inner-city Black neighbourhoods across North America gave rise to a new Black literary aesthetic.
Links to recent publications and media:
- An article recently published on the Yellowhead Institute website
- A four-part podcast on The Black Prairie Archives
- A radio interview on CBC, “The Prairies’ Forgotten History”
Winfried Siemerling
Winfried Siemerling is a University Research Chair and Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and an Associate of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. He won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past (MQUP, 2015; Les écritures noires du Canada, transl. Patricia Godbout, U Ottawa P, 2022).
Earlier books include Canada and Its Americas: Transnational Navigations (co-edited) and The New North American Studies: Culture, Writing, and the Politics of Re/Cognition (Routledge 2005, French translation PU Laval, 2010). He has contributed chapters to The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative (2014), The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature (2012), and African American Literature in Transition 1750-2015 (Cambridge UP, 2021). He is currently also working on a SSHRC-funded Insight Development Grant entitled “Nonsimultaneity and Incomplete Time: From Bloch, Benjamin, and the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Black Critique.” He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2019.
Recent Relevant Links:
- Companion Website for The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past
- “Re/cognizing the Time-Spaces of the Black Atlantic: A Response.” “Forum on Winfried Siemerling, The Black Atlantic Reconsidered.” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 8.1 (Requires library/subscription access).
- “Critical Memory Culture and Public Space: Dispatch from Canada.” The A-Line: A Journal of Progressive Thought 2.4 (November 2020).
- “From Site/Sight to Sound and Film: Critical Black Canadian Memory Culture and Sylvia Hamilton’s The Little Black School House.” Studies in Canadian Literature 44.1 (June 2019): 30-46. (Requires library/subscription access.)