Erin Wunker
Canadian feminist theorist
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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]
Publications
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.
Books as editor
- Vautour, Bart; Wunker, Erin; Mason, Travis V.; Verduyn, Christl, eds. (2015). Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 978-1-7711-2047-0.[10][11]
- Queyras, Sina (2016). Wunker, Erin (ed.). Barking and Biting: The Poetry of Sina Queyras. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 978-1-7711-2216-0.[12]
- McGregor, Hannah; Rak, Julie; Wunker, Erin, eds. (2018). Refuse: CanLit in Ruins. Toronto: Book*hug Press. ISBN 978-1-7716-6431-8.[13]
- Brossard, Nicole (2020). Queyras, Sina; Robichaud, Genevieve; Wunker, Erin (eds.). Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader. Toronto: Coach House Books. ISBN 978-1-5524-5403-9.[14]