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Jay RITCHIE

Jay RITCHIE
Contact Information
Email address: 
james.ritchie [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

Arts Building
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5
Canada

Group: 
Doctoral Students
Stream: 
Literature
Specialization by geographical area: 
Canada
United States
Transatlantic
Specialization by time period: 
20th-Century
21st-Century
Contemporary
Area(s): 
Aesthetics
Art
Creative Practice & Performance Studies
Critical Theory
Digital Humanities
Poetry & Poetics
Sociology of Literature
Areas of interest: 

Intermedia; systems theory; deindustrialization; sound studies; new media; digitality; social aesthetics

Biography: 

My research investigates the poetics of contemporary intermedia in the post-1970s shift to deindustrialization. By analyzing the tendencies of poetic experimentation and deindustrialization as related, my research shows how intermedia poets queried the status of the text as an object, and critiqued object-hood and artmaking as the act of producing material things. Ultimately, I show that poetic texts are sites of social interactivity, helping to form new relationships among artists and their multiple publics.

I have taught courses in English, Composition and Rhetoric, and Creative Writing at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Bishop’s University. I am also a writer and an editor, with poems published in Maisonneuve, SAND, The Dalhousie Review, EVENT, and performed on CBC Radio One and at the PHI Centre in Montreal. For more info visit .

Degree(s): 

Ph.D. ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University (exp. 2025)
M.F.A. University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2020
B.A. (Hons.) Concordia University, 2015

Selected publications: 

Books

(Invisible Publishing, 2024)

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 

Wolfe Fellowship in Scientific and Technological Literacy, 2024–2025
Peterson Memorial Prize in English Literature, 2024
SSHRC Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement, 2023
SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship, 2020–2023
Daniel and Merrily Glosband MFA Fellowship in Poetry, UMass Amherst, 2020

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