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Postdoctoral Fellows
EMiC postdoctoral fellows work on editions and participate in events (institutes, workshops, and conferences) affiliated with the research cluster. EMiC provides fellowships for postdocs working on their own editions of Canadian modernist texts under the supervision of, or in collaboration with, EMiC participants. Subventions for postdocs to attend EMiC institutes, workshops, and conferences are available from the project.
Matt Huculak
Postdoctoral Fellow | Editing Modernism in Canada
Developer | EMiC Digital Commons and Co-op
Email huculak@dal.ca
Matt specializes in modernism and periodical studies. His dissertation, “Middlebrow Politics and the Book War: Periodicals, Print History, and the Commercialization of Literature, 1905-31,” was completed under the supervision of Sean Latham. He comes to EMiC with many years of experience in editing and the digital humanities, including working as project manager and digital editor of the Modernist Journals Project, an editorial assistant with the James Joyce Quarterly, and webmaster for the Modernist Studies Association. His work in digital media involves designing collaborative environments to facilitate teaching and research–an objective that he has already achieved in providing online access to archival and rare print materials through the Modernist Journals Project, and that he plans to extend by creating for EMiC a digital commons of modernist texts in English and French.
Vanessa Lent
Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Alberta
Editor | Wilfred Watson, Cockcrow and the Gulls
Email vlent@dal.ca
Vanessa Lent holds a two-year EMiC (Editing Modernism in Canada) postdoctoral fellowship. Her project initiates a much-needed reassessment of poet and playwright Wilfred Watson by creating a hybrid print/digital edition of his ambitious first play Cockcrow and the Gulls (1962). This project will be nested within a larger scholarly initiative at the University of Alberta where Dr. Paul Hjartarson leads the joint digitization of the Wilfred Watson Fonds and the Sheila Watson Fonds. Her project consists of a fully annotated print edition of Cockcrow prefaced by a critical introduction and followed by selections of archival material including journals, letters, and drafts that will contextualize the composition and staging of the play.