Eric Schmaltz

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Eric Schmaltz is a scholar, editor, poet, and intermedia artist. He received his Ph.D. from the English Department at York University and, from 2018-19, he was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on contemporary and twentieth-century Canadian avant-garde literature and art, emphasizing intermedia, small press literary cultures, and sound studies. From 2022-24, he served as the Writer-on-the-Grounds at Glendon College. He currently serves on the executive committee for the Modern Language Association’s LLC Canadian forum.

He is the author of Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-gardism in Canada, 1963-1988 (University of Calgary Press), editor of Another Order: Selected Works of Judith Copithorne (Talonbooks), and co-editor of I Want to Tell You Love (University of Calgary Press), a previously unpublished collection of poems and illustrations from 1965 by bill bissett and Milton Acorn. His essays and articles have been featured in journals such as Canadian Literature, Jacket2, Canadian Poetry, FORUM, and English Studies in Canada as well as various edited collections. He is at work on a selected edition of Gerry Shikatani’s poetry for Wilfred Laurier University Press.

Schmaltz’s creative practice is directly influenced by his research, specifically his affinity for intermedia practices, as demonstrated by his book of poetry and text-art Surfaces (Invisible Publishing). His next book of poetry, I Confess, will be published by Coach House Books. His work –– encompassing full-length books, prints, chapbooks, 3D printed sculptures, vinyl, cassettes, album cover art, improvised sound works, and more –– has been published, exhibited, and performed nationally and internationally in Canada, the United States, England, France, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and elsewhere.

Selected Publications

“I Confess.” Toronto: Coach House Books, forthcoming.

“Race, Multiplicity, and Dis/Located Voices: Wayde Compton’s Turntablist Poetics.” Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound. Eds. Deanna Fong and Cole Mash. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024, pp. 62-76.

Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-Gardism in Canada, 1963-1988. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2023.

Another Order: Selected Works of Judith Copithorne. Edited by Eric Schmaltz. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2023.

“The Digits in the Digital: Bodies in the Machines of Canadian Concrete Poetry.” Canadian Digital Humanities. Eds. Paul Barrett and Sarah Roger. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2023, pp. 181-202.

“Stutter, Chew, Stop: Three Mandible Modes in the Poetry of Jordan Scott.” Canadian Literature 248 (2022): pp. 52-73.

I Want to Tell You Love by bill bissett and Milton Acorn. Edited by Eric Schmaltz and Christopher Doody. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2021.

“From Disgust to Desire: A Poetics of Subterfuge.” All the Feels / Tous le Sens: Affect and Writing in Canada / Affect et écriture au Canada. Eds. Marie Carriére, Kit Dobson, Ursula Moser. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2021. pp. 41-56.

“The Politics of Memory: Digital Repositories, Settler-Colonialism, and Jordan Abel’s Un/inhabited.” English Studies in Canada 45.4 (2019): pp. 123-142.

Surfaces. Picton/Halifax: Invisible Publishing, 2018.

“‘my body of bliss:’ Judith Copithorne’s Concrete Poetry in the 1960s and 1970s.” Canadian Poetry 83 (2018): pp. 14-39.

“‘the killing of speech:’” The Sonic Politics of the Four Horsemen.” FORUM, No. 19 (2014).

“‘to forget in a body:’ Mosaical Consciousness and Materialist Avant-Gardism in bill bissett & Milton Acorn’s unpublished I Want to Tell You Love.” Canadian Literature 222 (2014): pp. 96-112.

Selected Awards

·           Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Leighton Studio Residency (2023)

·           Ontario Arts Council, Recommender Grants (2022)

·           Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Create Grant (2020)

·           Toronto Arts Council, Writers Grant (2020)

·           SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018)

·           Provost Dissertation Scholarship, York University (2018)

·           Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Doctoral (2016)

·           Linda Heather Lamont-Stewart Fellowship, Canadian Studies, York University (2016)           

·           Clara Thomas Doctoral Scholarship, Canadian Studies, York University (2016)

·           SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Doctoral Scholarship (2013)              

·           Dean’s Graduate Scholarship, Brock University (2012)

·           Kenneth Frederick White Memorial Graduate Scholarship, Brock University (2012)

·           President’s Surgite Award, Brock University (2011)