Land/Relations: Possibilities of Justice in Canadian Literature

About Larissa LaiSmaro Kamboureli

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. Larissa Lai is the author of two novels When Fox Is a Thousand and Salt Fish Girl. A recipient of the Astraea Foundation Emerging Writers' Award she has been shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award the Tiptree Award and the Dorothy Livesay Prize. She is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia.