Erin Wunker

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

References

  1. 1 2 "Erin Wunker". Dalhousie University. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
  2. ↑ "Donna Morrissey, Jennifer Houle, and Erin Wunker win 2017 East Coast Literary Awards". Quill & Quire. 1 June 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2026.
  3. ↑ "Darren Greer, Alex Marland, and Erin Wunker among winners at the 2017 Atlantic Book Awards". Quill & Quire. 24 May 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2026.
  4. ↑ Short, Katie (7 April 2017). "Shortlist announced for the 2017 Atlantic Book Awards". Atlantic Books Today. Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association. Retrieved 18 May 2026.
  5. ↑ Robertson, Becky (October 2016). "Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life". Quill & Quire. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
  6. ↑ Dobbin, Natalie (23 November 2016). "What does it mean to be a feminist killjoy?". CBC News. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
  7. ↑ Foss, Krista (2016). "A Review of Erin Wunker's Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday". The Hamilton Review of Books. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
  8. ↑ Stagg, Kathryn (2016). "Making Space: A Review of Erin Wunker's Notes from a Feminist Killjoy". The Ex-Puritan. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
  9. ↑ Haslam, Madi (15 November 2016). "Erin Wunker launches book Notes from a Feminist Killjoy". The Signal. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
  10. ↑ Bradley, Nicholas (25 August 2017). "Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics, edited by Bart Vautour, Erin Wunker, Travis V. Mason, and Christl Verduyn". University of Toronto Quarterly. 86 (3). University of Toronto Press: 139–141. doi:10.3138/utq.86.3.139.
  11. ↑ Kroon, Ariel (Autumn 2016). "Canadian Poetry in Public". Canadian Literature (230). University of British Columbia: 266–268. Retrieved 18 May 2026.
  12. ↑ Callanan, Mark (April 2016). "Barking and Biting: The Poetry of Sina Queyras". Quill & Quire. Retrieved 18 May 2026.
  13. ↑ McGuire, Kelly (Summer 2020). "Refuse: CanLit in Ruins ed. by Hannah McGregor, Julie Rak, and Erin Wunker (review)". University of Toronto Quarterly. 89 (3). University of Toronto Press: 533–534. Retrieved 18 May 2026 – via Project MUSE.
  14. ↑ Milne, Heather (Spring 2021). "Poetry Review by Heather Milne". The Malahat Review. No. 214. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. Retrieved 18 May 2026.

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