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Zachary Abram

Education:

2010-Present

University of Ottawa

Doctoral Candidate (English/Canadian Studies)

Dissertation: Knights of Faith: Ethics and Existentialism in Canadian War Fiction

Supervisor: Prof. David Staines

2007-2009

Concordia University

Master of Arts (English Literature)

Thesis: Acquiescence and Salvation: Colin McDougall’s Execution and Existential Postwar Canadian Literature

Supervisor: Prof. Peter Webb

2003-2007

University of Toronto

University of Trinity College

Honours Bachelor of Arts with Distinction (Double Major: English Literature and History)

Publications:

Book Chapters:

“Shut Up, Sky Pilot: The Limits of Resistance in Generals Die in Bed.” North America, Europe and the Cultural Memory of the Great War. Heidelberg: University of Heidelberg Press, 2015. Print. (under review)

“Canon Fodder: The Canadian Canon and the Erasure of Great War Narratives.” The Great War: From Memory to History. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2015. Print. (forthcoming)

Scholarly Articles:

“On the Money: Existentialism and Imperial Semiotics in A.M. Klein’s The Second Scroll”    Studies in American Jewish Literature: Special Issue on Canadian Writing (Spring 2016). (forthcoming)

“Knights of Faith: Christian Existentialism and Colin McDougall’s Execution.” Studies in Canadian Literature 38.2 (2013): 166-181. Print.

“Writing War: The Colin McDougall Archive.” Papers of the Bibliographic Society 51.2 (Fall 2013): 199-220. Print.

“It All Flows Back: The Limits of Urban Community in ‘Treed Murray.’” Senses of Cinema (Issue 66, March 2013). Print.

“In the Service of Peace: The Symbolic Power of Peacekeeping in Canada.” The Dalhousie Review (Spring/Summer 2012). Print.

Reviews:

Review of Parkway by Peter Culley (Journal of Canadian Poetry 2014)

Review of The Civic Mindedness of Trees by Ken Howe (Journal of Canadian Poetry 2014)

Review of Invisible Dogs by Barry Dempster (Journal of Canadian Poetry 2014)

Review of Everything, Now by Jessica Moore (Journal of Canadian Poetry 2013)

Review of Red Ceiling by Bridget Keating (Journal of Canadian Poetry 2013)

Review of Tilt by E. Blagrave (Journal of Canadian Poetry 2013)

Review of Walking in the Tree House by Michael Lithgow (Journal of Canadian Poetry 2013)

Review of The Juliet Stories by Carrie Snyder (The Bull Calf Vol. 3.2 2013)

Review of Folk by Jacob McArthur Mooney (Journal of Canadian Poetry 2012)

Review of The First Step by Michael Pacey (Journal of Canadian Poetry 2012)

Review of refrain by Jason S. Polley (The Bull Calf Vol. 2.2 2012)

Review of Surfacing by Margaret Atwood (The Bull Calf Vol. 1.3 2011)

Review of Burning House by Richard Lemm (Journal of Canadian Poetry 2011)

Review of You Know Who You Are by Ian Williams (Journal of Canadian Poetry 2011)

Review of Valley Suttra by Kildip Gill (Journal of Canadian Poetry 2010)

Review of The Last House by Michael Kenyon. (Journal of Canadian Poetry 2010)

Conference Papers:

“The Best Years in a Girl’s Life: Realist Incursions in L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside”  L. M. Montgomery’s Ontario Years, 1911-42: A Changing World, Northeast Modern             Languages Association, Toronto, ON, April 2015.

“The Comforts of Home: Sex Workers, Domesticity, and the Canadian War Novel.” Representing World War I: Perspectives at the Centenary, Humber Liberal Arts @ IFOA Conference, Toronto, ON, October 2014.

“Merely Soldiers: Generals Die in Bed and the Rise of the Canadian Anti-War Novel.”  Canadian Literature of World War I, Ottawa, ON, July 2014.

“Shut up, Sky Pilot: German and Canadian soldiers in Generals Die in Bed.” North America, Europe and the Cultural Memory of the Great War, University of Graz, Austria, June 2014.

“The Sword of Devotion: Vimy Ridge and Generals Die in Bed” Great Write North: 20^th Century Canadian Fiction and Global Influence, Northeast Modern Languages Association, Harrisburg, PA, April 2014.

“Writing War: Inside the Colin McDougall Archive.” The Page: Visual and Material Literature, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, March 2014.

“Knights of Faith: Christian Existentialism in Colin McDougall’s Execution.” Global Positioning Systems: American Comparative Literature Association, University of Toronto, April 2013.

“On the Money: Transnationalism and Imperial Semiotics in The Second Scroll.” Transnational Canadian Writing: Northeast Modern Languages Association, Tufts University, Boston, March 2013.

“It All Flows Back: The Limits of Urban Community in ‘Treed Murray.’” New Narratives V, the University of Toronto, May 2012.

“The Achievements of Carol Shields.” Canadian Literature Symposium: The Worlds of Carol Shields, University of Ottawa, April 2012. 

“Sacrifice: Violence and Christian Existentialism in Colin McDougall’s Execution.” Violence in Theory and Practice, University of Ottawa, March 2012.

“Canon Fodder: Canadian Canonicity, the Erasure of Great War narratives and the Self             Conscious Re-invention of Canadian Cultural Identity.” The Great War: From Memory to History, The University of Western Ontario, November 2011.

“Pepys at Play: Samuel Pepys’s coffeehouse and divergent modern day understandings of the public sphere.” Concordia University English Graduate Colloquium, March 2011.

“The Crown of the Torah: Hyphenated Identity in A.M. Klein’s The Second Scroll.” Université de Montréal EGSS Graduate Conference, March 2011.

“The Other Side of the Coin: Imperial Semiotics in A.M. Klein’s The Second Scroll.” McGill English Graduate Conference, March 2011.

“Images of Homosexuality: Ambiguity in Beautiful Losers and The Lamp at Noon.” Sexing the Book: McGill English Graduate Conference, March 2009.

“In the Money: Ideology, Hyphenated Identity and Symbol in A.M. Klein’s The Second Scroll.” Got Class?: Concordia University English Graduate Colloquium, March 2009.

“YouTube in the Library.” San Jose State University, June 2007.

“Collaborative Spaces: I’ve looked at Clouds from Both Sides Now.” Ontario Library Association Superconference, Toronto, February 2007.

Teaching and Research Experience:

Fall 2010 – Present

University of Ottawa

Instructor

Fall 2014 ENGL 1100 Workshop of Essay Writing

Instructor

Fall 2013 ENGL 2120 The Mystery Novel

Instructor

Fall 2012 ENGL 2120 The Mystery Novel

Instructor

Fall 2011 ENGL 1100 Workshop on Essay Writing

Research Assistant

Winter 2013

Grade Submission Consultant (Prof. Thomas Allen)

Winter 2012

Canadian Literature Symposium 2012: The Worlds of Carol Shields – Coordinator

(Prof. David Staines)

Teaching Assistant (English Department)

Winter 2013 – ENGL 1100 Workshop on Essay Writing (Prof. Cyril Dabydeen)

Winter 2011 – Writing Centre Teaching Assistant (Prof. Jennifer Panek)

Fall 2010 – ENGL 1100 Workshop on Essay Writing (Prof. Trevor Tucker)

Spring 2008 – Summer 2010

Concordia University

Teaching Assistant (English Department)

Fall 2008 ENGL A 260 – Introduction to Literary Criticism (Prof. Jonathan Sachs)

Winter 2009 ENGL BB 260 – Introduction to Literary Criticism (Prof. Peter Webb)

Other Academic Pursuits:

Spring 2013 – Present

The Bull Calf Literary Review

Assistant Editor