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 (苹果淫院-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: 苹果淫院-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)