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1 MYRA BLOOM, PhD (647) CURRENT POSITION Writing Instructor, Woodsworth College, University of Toronto Writing Support, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Communication Instructor, Engineering Communication Program, University of Toronto DEGREES PhD Comparative Literature, University of Toronto Advisor: Dr. Barbara Havercroft Dissertation: Textual Transgressions: Confessional Discourse in Late Twentieth-Century Canadian and Québécois Writing MA Comparative Literature, University of Toronto BA Hons. Contemporary Studies/English, University of King s College MAJOR AWARDS SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral Award SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Masters Award $105, 000 $17, 500 For additional awards and scholarships, please see p. 8. PUBLISHED AND FORTHCOMING Articles PUBLICATIONS 2018 Messy Confessions: Sheila Heti s How Should a Person Be? Avant Canada: The Book. (Eds. Gregory Betts, Christian Bök and Karis Shearer). Forthcoming. 1

2 2017 The Trope of the Translator: (Re)writing History in Heather O Neill s The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and Claire Holden Rothman s My October. Canadian Literature 233 ( Literary History, Summer 2017): At the End of Everything : Confession and Critique in Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra. ESC: English Studies in Canada (2015): The Suitable Language of Love : Confessional Discourse in By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne 39.2 (Spring 2015): Paratactics: Marie-Claire Blais s Feminist Praxis in Soifs. Québec Studies 52: Beyond the Veil: The Pearl Fishers and Other Operatic Revelations. Transverse: A Journal of Comparative Literature. (Spring 2008): Perverting Nietzsche: An Account of Appropriation. Hinge: A Journal of Contemporary Studies. (Spring 2007): Traveling with Humboldt. Tooth and Claw. (Spring 2007): Encyclopedia Entries 2016 Marie-Claire Blais. Critical Survery of American Literature. Ed. Steven Kellman. Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press Essays 2018 The Darker Side of Leonard Cohen. The Walrus (online). Forthcoming. Interviews 2017 The Witnessed Self: A Conversation with Molly Peacock. With Heather White. The Puritan 38 (summer 2017) Beware: It s Going to Be Very Personal : An Interview with Guillaume Morissette. The Puritan 33 (Spring 2016). 2

3 2015 "Rusty Talk with Laura Clarke." The Rusty Toque. December 22, Irradiated Mutants and Psychopathic Poems: A Conversation with Michael Lista. The Puritan XXVII. oom.html Book Reviews 2018 A Woman s Art (review of Sheila Heti, Motherhood). Canadian Notes and Queries. Forthcoming Scorching Air. Review of Catherine Owen, Dear Ghost and Sina Queyras, My Ariel. Canadian Literature. Forthcoming I Was a Teenage Mystic! The confessional snare and Québécois Women s Writing. Review of Patricia Smart s Writing Herself into Being. Literary Review of Canada. January Pushing Boundaries. Review of Catherine Leroux, The Party Wall and Vickie Gendreau, Testament. Canadian Literature. (Forthcoming in print) Mind and Body. Review of Jan Zwicky, Wittgenstein Elegies & Nicole Brossard, Ardour. Canadian Literature (Spring/Summer 2016): Solo Protests Against Solitude: A Review of Steven Heighton s The Waking Comes Late. The Puritan 34 (Summer 2016) Makes you want to talk about baseball: A Conversation about Andrew Forbes s The Utility of Boredom. The Puritan 34 (Summer 2016) A Product of Its Time: Heather O Neill s The Girl Who Was Saturday Night. The Puritan summer supplement ( À la prochaine fois: 1995 and the Literature of Post-Referendum Québec ) The Direction in Which We Are Currently Headed. Review of 3

4 WORKS IN PROGRESS Suzannah Showler s Failure to Thrive. GUTS: Canadian Feminist Magazine Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. U of Ottawa P. Critical Edition Io non ci sto : Disappearance as Praxis in the Work of Elena Ferrante Article Evasive Maneuvers. Manuscript. CONFERENCE PAPERS 2017 Dissolving Boundaries: Ferrante, Feminism, Autofiction. ACCUTE, Congress, Ryerson University, May Translating the Solitudes: Trends in Anglophone Fiction from Quebec. Mikinaakominis/TransCanadas Conference, Toronto, ON, May The Trope of the Translator: Cultural Hybridity in 20 th Century Anglo-Québécois Fiction. ACQS, Portland, Maine, November Love and Affec(ta)tion: Sheila Heti s How Should a Person Be? and the Post-Avant. Maladies of the Soul, Emotion, Affect; Banff, AB, September (Un)thinking the Past: Contemporary Representations of Historical Conflict in Québec. Le Québec dans les Amériques: la nouvelle recherche en études québécoises, Washington, DC, January After the Crisis: The Post-Sovereigntist Novel in Québec. Crisis and Beyond: The Literatures of Canada and Quebec, Canadian Studies Centre, Innsbruck, Austria, September 30-October Sources of the Self(ie). NeMLA, Toronto, April 30-May Glorious Impossibility: The Use and Abuse of Religion in The Double Hook. Avant Canada: Artists, Prophets, Revolutionaries, Brock University, St. Catharines, November out of the or/binary: Religious Oscillation in The Martyrology. At the Corner of Mundane and Sacred: a bpnichol Symposium, Brock University, St. Catharines, November 7. 4

5 2014 Late Trains: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept as Late Modernist Text. ACCUTE, Congress, Brock University, St. Catharines. May Confessions from the Internet. Media Fever! Religion as Mediation, University of Toronto, April Getting It Off Your Chest: Confession in a Digital Age. ACLA Annual Conference, UBC, Vancouver, March 31-April Manufactured Beauty: Edward Burtynsky and the Aesthetics of Nature. CCLA, Congress, Carleton University, Ottawa, May Putting the Matter Concretely: Concrete Poetry in Translation. ACLA Annual Conference, California State University, Long Beach, April PANELS ORGANIZED 2018 Women s Autofiction. ACCUTE, Congress, University of Regina, May A time for reconciliation? ACQL, Congress, Ryerson University, Toronto, May Let Us Compare Mythologies: Deconstructing and Decolonizing Québec s Cultural Myths. Co-organizer with Norah Franklin and Sarah Henzi. Minaakominis/TransCanadas, University of Toronto, May The Poetics/Politics of Post-Postmodernism. ACCUTE, Congress, University of Ottawa, May 30-June Alternative Perspectives in Contemporary Modes of Representation. Co-organizer with Ronald Ng and Sarah O Brien. CCLA, Congress, Carleton University, Ottawa, May INVITED TALKS 2018 Extraordinary Women: An Afternoon with Canadian Author Elizabeth Smart. Post-Film Panel with Maya Gallus. Revue Cinema, Jan Notes in a Minor Key: Writing Life and Loss in Miriam Toews s All My Puny Sorrows. Toronto Public Libraries Great Books Lecture Series. Fairview Library, May 25. 5

6 2014 Memoirs and Treatises: Chester Brown s Paying For It. ENG 357 New Writing in Canada, Instructor Lara Okihiro, University of Toronto, June Margaret Atwood and Cathy Song. ENG1405Y Literature for Our Time, Professor Colin Hill, University of Toronto Mississauga, March Seducing the Reader: The Rhetoric of Elizabeth Smart s By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. ENG328Y1Y Modern Fiction to 1960, Instructor Daniel A. Newman, University of Toronto, Feb I Draw a Human Black Over the Lightened: A Relative Perspective on Michael Lista s Bloom. ENG140 Literature for Our Time, Professor Nick Mount, University of Toronto, March PostSecret and the Art of Digital Confession. RLG 332 Memoir and Confession, Professor Pamela Klassen, Nov. 9. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Engineering Communication Program, University of Toronto 2017 (F) Communication Instructor, CIV282 Engineering Communication I (W) Communication Instructor, ECE297 Communication and Design Communication Instructor, APS111/112 Engineering Strategies and Practice 2015 (F) Communication Instructor, ESC101 Praxis OCAD University 2016 (F) Instructor, Continuing Studies Course: CLSE2N03 Academic Skills for Art and Design 2016 (S) English Language Learning Specialist, Continuing Studies/Writing and Learning Centre Course: CLSE1N01 English for Art and Design English Department, University of Toronto 2014 (W) Instructor, ENG357 New Writing in Canada Teaching Assistant, ENG252Y Canadian Literature (Instructor: Dr. Vikki Visvis) 2013 (S) Teaching Assistant, ENG354Y Canadian Poetry (Instructor: Dr. 6

7 Vikki Visvis) Teaching Assistant, ENG1405Y Literature for Our Time (Instructor: Dr. Colin Hill) Teaching Assistant, ENG140Y Literature for Our Time (Instructor: Dr. Nick Mount) Teaching Assistant, ENG2202Y The Poetic Tradition (Instructor: Dr. Malcolm Woodland) Teaching Assistant, ENG100Y Effective Writing (Instructor: Dr. Deirdre Flynn) WRITING INSTRUCTION ADDITIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE Tutor/English Language Learning Consultant, Writing and Learning Centre, OCAD University WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS 2017 Using Sources. Writing Plus Workshop, University of Toronto, Oct hr Organizing Your Essay. Writing Plus Workshop, University of Toronto, Oct hr Critical Thinking. Jump Start Workshop, University of Toronto, Aug hr Hackers: Vigilantes or Watchdogs? Engineering Communication Program, University of Toronto. Nov. 18-Dec week seminar Cyberbullying. Engineering Communication Program, University of Toronto. Nov week seminar. ADDITIONAL TRAINING 2018 Substantive and Stylistic Editing Course, Chang School of Continuing Studies, Ryerson University. In progress Graduate Professional Skills Course, THE500 Teaching in Higher Education, University of Toronto RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Consultant, Translation Studies, Concordia University 7

8 Supervisor: Dr. Sherry Simon Research Assistant, English, University of Toronto Supervisor: Dr. Nick Mount Research Assistant, French/Comp Lit, University of Toronto Supervisor: Dr. Barbara Havercroft 2007 (S) Research Assistant, Old Testament Studies, University of Ottawa Supervisor: Dr. Adele Reinhartz EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE Reviews Editor, The Puritan literary journal Copy Editor, French, University of Toronto Supervisor: Dr. Alexi Tcheuyap Editor-In-Chief, Transverse Graduate Journal, Comparative Literature, University of Toronto Co-Editor, with Katherine Archibald, Hinge Undergraduate Journal, Contemporary Studies, University of King s College, Halifax ADDITIONAL AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 2016 Conference Grant, Association internationale des études québécoises (AIEQ) $ Conference Grant, University of Innsbruck Centre for Comparative Literature Conference Grant, University of Toronto 2013 Margaret and Nicholas Fodor Fellowship, University of Toronto $500 $1, Doctoral Completion Award, University of Toronto $8, University of Toronto Fellowship $15, Centre for Comparative Literature Conference Grant, University of Toronto 2008 Centre for Comparative Literature Conference Grant, University of Toronto 2007 James W. Tupper English Fellowship, Dalhousie University $600 $600 $6, First place, French Department Dictation Honorary 8

9 Competition, Dalhousie University 2007 French Department Award of Excellence, Dalhousie University Honorary 2006 King s University Scholarship $2, Almond-Welsford Testimonial Prize for Achievement in Latin, Dalhousie University 2005 King s Alumni Scholarship, University of King s College $100 $2, King s University Scholarship $1, James Fear Scholarship, University of King s College $4,000 SERVICE EVENTS ORGANIZED 2013 Co-coordinator, with Sarah O Brien and Ronald Ng, ACLA Annual Meeting, University of Toronto ACADEMIC SERVICE Graduate Representative, University of Toronto Arts and Science Council Vice-President, Comparative Literature Student Society COMMUNITY SERVICE COMMUNITY OUTREACH 2016 Judge, Engineers without Borders Social Change and Youth Leadership Conference Case Study Design Challenge Member Relations Coordinator, University of King s College Alumni Association of Toronto Chair of the Board of Directors, Outside the March Theatre Company, Toronto MEDIA COVERAGE 2010 U of T Plans to School Its Languages and Literatures. The Torontoist July 9. d_literatures/ 9

10 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS CSN (Canadian Studies Network) ACQS (American Council for Quebec Studies) ACQL (Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures) Graduate Fellow, EMiC (Editing Modernism in Canada) MLA (Modern Languages Association) ACCUTE (Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English) CCLA (Canadian Comparative Literature Association) ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) French: read, written, spoken Spanish: read, written, spoken LANGUAGE FACILITY REFERENCES BARBARA HAVERCROFT Associate Professor/Associate Chair of Graduate Studies, French; Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Toronto Odette Hall 223, St. Michael s College Toronto, ON M5S 1J4 barbara.havercroft@utoronto.ca/ Phone:(416) NICK MOUNT Associate Professor, English, University of Toronto 170 St. George Street #704 Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 nick.mount@utoronto.ca/ Phone: (416) GREGORY BETTS Associate Professor, English, Brock University 500 Glenridge Avenue, GLN 157 St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1 gbetts@brocku.ca/ Phone: (905) x

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