Kit Dobson is currently an Associate Professor of English at Mount Royal University, with a special interest in contemporary Canadian fiction and poetry, as well as questions of globality, Indigeneity, and social justice. His most recent books are the edition Please, No More Poetry: The Poetry of derek beaulieu and, with Smaro Kamboureli, the book of interviews Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace. He is currently working on a book about malls and consumer culture in Canada.