Department of English

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Bart Vautour

Associate Professor

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Email: bvautour@dal.ca
Mailing Address: 
McCain Building, 1186 - 6135 University Avenue P.O. Box 15000 Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Editing and Textual Studies
  • Creative Writing
  • Canadian literature
  • Modernist literature
  • Social justice and inequality

Education

  • BA (Guelph)
  • MA (UT/OISE)
  • MA (Dalhousie)
  • PhD (Dalhousie)

Remarks

My research interests are varied and ever-expanding. My formal training is in Canadian Literatures, Editorial and Textual Studies, and Modernist Literatures. I’ve expanded my expertise to include frameworks of Research-Creation. My work tends to focus on the production and circulation of writing in multiple contexts, from state-built libraries to bookbinding as a site of integrated learning. With Emily Robins Sharpe, I co-direct the “Canada and the Spanish Civil War” project (spanishcivilwar.ca) and continue to research and write about literatures and media from the 1930s. Beginning in July 2024, I am editor of The Dalhousie Review.

Selected and Forthcoming Publications

  • “Personal Libraries of the State.” Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books. Ed. By Jason Camlot and Jeffrey Weingarten. WLUP, 2022.
  • "I’ll Learn to Listen/At the Trailing Edge of the World." Gap Riot Press, 2021.
  •  “If You Listen Hard Enough, You’ll Hear Us.” Fifteen Dreams. Sappyfest, 2020.
  • "The Truth About Facts." Invisible Publishing, 2019.
  • "Making Canada New: Editing, Modernism, and New Media." Edited by Dean Irvine, Vanessa Lent, and Bart Vautour. UTP, 2017.
  • "Meet Me on the Barricades." By Charles Yale Harrison. Edited, with introduction, appendices, and notes by Emily Robins Sharpe and Bart Vautour. UOP, 2016.
  • “Politics of Recovery and the Recovery of Politics: Editing Canadian Writing on the Spanish Civil War.” Editing as Cultural Practice: Institutional Formations, Collaboration, and Literatures in Canada. Eds. Smaro Kamboureli and Dean Irvine. WLUP, 2016.
  • "Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Candadian Poetry and Poetics." Edited with Erin Wunker, Travis Mason, and Christl Verduyn. WLUP, 2015.
  • "This Time a Better Earth."  By Ted Allan. Edited, with introduction, appendices, and notes, by Bart Vautour. UOP, 2015.
  • “Modernism, Antimodernism, and the Song Fishermen.” Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 70 (Spring/Summer 2012): 15–44.
  • “F. R. Scott and the Emergence of a Poetics of Institutional Critique.” Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 66 (Spring/Summer 2010): 68–86.
  • “From Transnational Politics to National Modernist Poetics: The Spanish Civil War Poetry in New Frontier.” Canadian Literature 2014 (Spring 2010): 44–60.

Grants, Awards, Fellowships, and Scholarships

  • SSHRC Connection Grant (2023–2024)
  • Canada Council for the Art Grant (2021)
  • Canada Council for the Art Grant (2019)
  • SSHRC Insight Grant (2014–2019)
  • SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2017–2019)
  • SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2012–2014)
  • SSHRC Connection Grant (2012–2013)
  • SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2011–2013)