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Erin Wunker

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Erin Wunker is a Canadian feminist theorist and literary scholar whose book Notes from A Feminist Killjoy won the Evelyn Richardson Award at the Atlantic Book Awards in 2017. She is an assistant professor and department chair at Dalhousie University.

Education and career

Wunker holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master of Arts from McGill University, and a PhD from the University of Calgary.[1] She is the department chair at Dalhousie University's department of English, where she also works as an assistant professor.[1]

In 2017, Wunker's book Notes From a Feminist Killjoy won the Evelyn Richardson Award and the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award,[2][3] and was shortlisted for the Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing.[4]

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Books as author

  • Wunker, Erin (2016). Notes From a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life. Toronto: Book*hug Press. ISBN 978-1-7716-6256-7.[5][6][7][8][9]
  • Wunker, Erin (2020). The Routledge Introduction to Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Canadian Poetry. New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429352966. ISBN 978-0-3673-7166-1.

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