Seriously Playful / Playfully Serious

Eric Schmaltz holds a Ph.D. in English from York University and, from 2018-19, he was an SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His research spans the fields of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Canadian literature with an emphasis on experimental and avant-garde poetics. He is co-editor (with Christopher Doody) of the critical edition I Want to Tell You Love by bill bissett and Milton Acorn (University of Calgary Press) and the author of Surfaces (Invisible Publishing). His critical writings have been published or are forthcoming in academic journals, including Jacket2, English Studies in Canada, Canadian Poetry, Canadian Literature, Forum and the edited collection, All the Feels / Tous les sens: Affect and Writing in Canada / Affect et écriture au Canada. He is a sessional lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Brock University, York University (Glendon Campus), and Sheridan College.