Eli MacLaren
poetry and poetics; Canadian poetry; nature poetry and ecopoetics; Canadian fiction; First Nations writers; bibliography and the history of the book; authorship and publishing history; law and literature; copyright.
Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
M.A. (University of Western Ontario)
B.A. (University of Alberta)
Elsie Fry Laurence and Canadian authorship
John Lovell and history of small-scale Canadian literary publishing
Poetics of the contemporary lyric
Scholarly editing of Alice Munro
Books
Little Resilience: The Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books (缅北强奸-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2020)
Dominion and Agency: Copyright and the Structuring of the Canadian Book Trade, 1867鈥1918 (University of Toronto Press, 2011)
Articles
鈥淪cholarly Editing: A Way to Read Al Purdy鈥檚 鈥楬ouse Guest.鈥欌 An Echo in the Mountains: Al Purdy at One Hundred, edited by Nicholas Bradley. Montreal & Kingston: 缅北强奸-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2020. 173鈥96.
鈥溾 Imprinting Canada: The McGraw-Hill Ryerson Collection, edited by Ruth Panofsky. Ryerson University Library (2019).
鈥淐opyright and Poetry in Twenty-First-Century Canada: Poets鈥 Incomes and Fair Dealing.鈥 Canadian Literature 233 (2018): 10鈥27.
鈥淐anadian Book History.鈥 In The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, edited by Cynthia Sugars. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 799鈥812.
鈥淟a mal茅diction litt茅raire au Canada anglais: Le cas de Lionel Stevenson.鈥 Dans Deux si猫cles de mal茅diction litt茅raire: Transformations, m茅diations et transferts d鈥檜n mythe, dirig茅 par Pascal Brissette et Marie Pier-Luneau. Li猫ge (Belgique): Presses universitaires de Li猫ge, 2014. 231鈥40.
鈥溾楽ignificant Little Offerings鈥: The Origin of the Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books, 1925鈥26.鈥 Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 72 (2013): 9鈥49.
Jos茅e Vincent and Eli MacLaren. 鈥淏ook Policy and Copyright in Canada and Quebec: Defending National Cultures.鈥 Canadian Literature 204 (2010): 63鈥82.
鈥淟es politiques du livre au Qu茅bec et au Canada, 脿 la d茅fense des cultures nationales.鈥 In R茅seaux et circulation internationale du livre: diplomatie culturelle et propagande 1880-1980, edited by Fran莽ois Vallotton. Paris: 脡ditions Nouveau Monde, 2011.
鈥淩esistance, Rebellion, and Print in the Northwest.鈥 In History of the Book in Canada. Vol. 2, 1840鈥1918, edited by Yvan Lamonde, Patricia Lockhart Fleming, and Fiona A. Black. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 343鈥49.
鈥淔acies cholerica: the Record of Cholera in Print.鈥 In History of the Book in Canada. Vol. 1, Beginnings to 1840, edited by Patricia Lockhart Fleming, Gilles Gallichan, and Yvan Lamonde. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. 303鈥6.
Edited Volumes
Edited Journal Issues
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 50, no.1 鈥 55, no. 1 (Spring 2012 to Spring 2017), 10 issues, 40 articles.
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Guest-Edited Journal Issues
鈥淭he Generation and Regeneration of Books / La g茅n茅ration et r茅g茅n茅rations du livre (SHARP 2015)鈥. Special issue. M茅moires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 7, no. 2 (2016).
鈥淣ew Studies in the History of Reading / Nouvelles recherches en histoire de la lecture.鈥 Special issue, M茅moires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 3, no. 2 (2012).
鈥淏ibliography and Book History in Canada: Views on the State of the Discipline.鈥 Special issue, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 46, no. 1 (Spring 2008).
Book Reviews
Review of The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada鈥檚 Best Publisher and the Best Part of Our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational, by Elaine Dewar. University of Toronto Quarterly 88, no. 3 (2019): 112鈥13.
Review of The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada: Making Books and Mapping Culture, by Ruth Panofsky. Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 70 (2012): 93鈥96.
Review of 鈥淐ollecting Stamps Would Have Been More Fun鈥: Canadian Publishing and the Correspondence of Sinclair Ross, 1933鈥1986, edited by Jordan Stouck and David Stouck. 1, no. 3 (Sept. 2011).
Review of Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates, by Adrian Johns. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 48, no. 2 (2010). 332鈥36.
Review of Canadian Copyright: A Citizen鈥檚 Guide, by Laura J. Murray and Samuel E. Trosow. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 47, no. 1 (2009): 113鈥16.
Review of The Internationalisation of Copyright Law: Books, Buccaneers and the Black Flag in the Nineteenth Century, by Catherine Seville. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 46, no. 1 (2008): 126鈥29.
鈥淧lumbing the Depths.鈥 Review of Spine, by K.I. Press. Echolocation 4 (2005): 63鈥66.
- SSHRC Connection Grant (鈥淢aking Well: Poetry Matters鈥), 2019鈥20
- Co-chercheur du Groupe de recherches et d鈥櫭﹖udes sur le livre au Qu茅bec (GR脡LQ), 2013鈥
- SSHRC Connection Grant (鈥淪HARP 2015: The Generation and Regeneration of Books鈥), 2015
- Seventh Annual Leon Katz Memorial Lecture, Friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto (鈥淢ajor Contours in the History of the Book in Canada鈥), 2015
- FRQSC, subvention nouveau professeur-chercheur听(鈥淓xamen du droit d鈥檃uteur: pressions l茅gales et activit茅 litt茅raire au Canada鈥),听2013鈥15
- Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2011鈥13
- Canadian Literature (journal), Award for Best Essay, 2010
University of Toronto
Queen鈥檚 University (Kingston, ON)
Carleton University (Ottawa, ON)