Assistant Professor 640 Atkinson College School of Arts and Letters Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies York University 4700 Keele St. Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 (416) 736-2100 x. 44017 sjcain@yorku.ca EDUCATION Ph.D. (1995-2002): York University Dissertation: "Imprinting Identities: An Examination of the Emergence and Developing Identities of Coach House Press and House of Anansi Press (1967-1982)" Supervising Committee: Professors Ray Ellenwood, Steve McCaffery, & Len Early External Examiner: Professor Douglas Barbour (U of Alberta) M.A. (1994-5): York University, English Literature B.A. (Hon.) (1989-93): Queen's University, English Literature. RECENT AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve for Literary Commentary (2004) York English Teaching Assistant Award (2000) Ontario Graduate Scholarship (1999-2000) Ontario Graduate Scholarship (1996-97) York University Admission Scholarship (1995-96) PUBLICATIONS Books Co-author (with Tim Conley): Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages. New York: Greenwood, 2006. 238 pages. In Progress: Co-editor (with Steve McCaffery): The Zebras Progress: The Dick Higgins/ Steve McCaffery Correspondence (1976-1998). Toronto: Coach House. Editions "The Literary Serial in Canada, 1980-2000" Special Issue of Open Letter (11.6, 2002). 140 pages. Chapters in Books (Refereed) "Mapping Raymond Souster’s Toronto." The Canadian Modernists Meet. Ed. Dean Irvine. Ottawa: U of Ottawa P, 2005: 59-75. "The Poetics of R. Murray Schafer." Sound as Sense: Contemporary US Poetry &/in Music. Eds. Michel Delville and Christine Pagnoulle. Brussels: P.I.E.-Peter Lang, 2003: 155-173. Forthcoming: "Faber and Faber." In the Ezra Pound Encyclopedia. (Eds. Stephen J. Adams and Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos. New York: Greenwood Publishing). "Kroetsch, Robert (1927-)", "Goldsmith, Kenneth (1961-)", and "Mac Cormack, Karen (1956-)" in the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry. (Eds. Jeffrey Grey, et al. New York: Greenwood Publishing). Refereed Articles "Tracing the Web: House of Anansi's Spiderline Editions." Studies in Canadian Literature 25.1 (2000): 111-130. Submitted Articles "Introduction: Filthy Lucre or Subversive Community." Open Letter 11.6 (2002): 5-23. "Play's the Thing: The Visual Poetry of Robert Zend." Open Letter 10.6 (1999): 50-61.>/P> "Questions for Peter and Scott." Open Letter 10.5 (1999): 90-94. Commentary/ Notes: "Introduction." Pencil of Rays and Spike Mace: The Selected Poems of Niels Lyngso. Trans. from Danish by Gregory Pardlo. Toronto: BookThug, 2004. "Introduction." Groundswell: The Best of above/ground Press (1993-2003). Fredericton: Broken Jaw, 2003: 7-9. "Fragment of a Letter to Jay. RE: Academic Poetry." endNOTE 2 (2000): 15-17 Reviews: Rev. of Karen Mac Cormack’s Implexures. In 1913: A Journal of Forms (U.S.) 1.1 (2004): 140-1. Rev. of bill bissett’s Peter Among th Towring Boxes/ text bites. In paperplates 5.3 (2003): 36-37. Rev. of Stan Rogal's Geometry of the Odd; Stuart Ross' Farmer Gloomy's New Hybrid; and John Barlow's ASHINEoVSUN. In filling station 21 (2001): 67-71. Rev. of Mary Cameron's Clouds Without Heaven. In Quarry 46.2 (2001): 47-48. Rev. of R.M. Vaughan's Invisible to Predators. In Quarry 46.1 (2000): 61-62. Rev. of Lisa Robertson's XEcologue. In paperplates 4.2 (2000): 33-34. Rev. of James Wallen's Her Smoke Rose Up. In Paragraph 20.2/3 (1998/99): 57-8. Rev. of Cliff Burns' The Reality Machine. In Paragraph 20.1 (1998): 30-31. Interviews: Interview with Karen Mac Cormack. Queen Street Quarterly 3.4 (2000): 53-61. Interview with Frank Davey. Queen Street Quarterly 3.2 (1999): 40-46 & 3.3 (1999): 57- 63. CONFERENCE PAPERS "Modes of the Micropress." Poetics and Public Culture in Canada: A Conference in Honour of Frank Davey. University of Western Ontario, 2005 (refereed). "Mapping Souster’s Toronto." The Canadian Modernists Meet. University of Ottawa, May 9-11, 2003 (refereed). "The Poetics of R. Murray Schafer." Poetry and Music. University of Liege, Belgium. April 1-4, 2001 (refereed). "Two in T.O.: The Canadian Publications of Allen Ginsberg and Charles Wright." The Opening of the Field: A Conference on North American Poetry in the 1960s. The National Poetry Foundation. University of Maine (Orono, ME). June 28-July 2, 2000 (refereed). "Beyond Labels: The Visual Poetry of Robert Zend from Dittos and Drops to Oab." Eye-Rhymes: A Multidisciplinary International Conference on Visual Poetry. University of Alberta, June 12-16, 1997 (invited). "Genre-Bending: bpNichol and the Haiku Novel." LEXIS Conference. University of Montreal. March 14, 1996 (refereed). :Sound Poetry and the Possibilities of Adamic Language for Universal Expression (1913-1932)." EGSA Colloquium, York University. Feb. 17, 1995 (refereed).