Editing as Cultural Practice in Canada

Dean Irvine is an associate professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University and director of Editing Modernism in Canada. He is the author of Editing Modernity: Women and Little-Magazine Cultures in Canada, 1914-1956, (2008) editor of The Canadian Modernists Meet, (2005) and co-editor (with Bart Vautour and Vanessa Lent) of Making Canada New: Editing, Modernism, and Digital Media (forthcoming).
Smaro Kamboureli is a professor and the Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature in the English Department at the University of Toronto. She is the founder of the TransCanada series of books, published by WLU Press, originating from interdisciplinary conferences that initiated collaborative research on the methodologies and institutional structures and contexts that inform and shape the production, dissemination, teaching, and study of Canadian literature. Her most recent publications include Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies (WLU Press 2012), co-edited with Robert Zacharias and Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace (WLU Press, 2013), co-edited with Kit Dobson.