Keynote Speakers

We are pleased to announce our two keynote speakers and local poet reading:

ZHANG Hui, PhD

Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature
Institute of Comparative Literature & Comparative Culture
Peking University
Beijing, 100871
China
E-mail: zhui@pku.edu.cn; beidazhanghui@gmail.com

and
 MARIE CARRIÈRE, PhD

Director, Canadian Literature Centre/ Centre de littérature canadienne
Humanities 4-115, University of Alberta
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/clc

Associate Chair (Graduate)
Department of Modern Languages & Cultural Studies
University of Alberta
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Dr. Zhang Hui and Dr. Carrière will deliver our keynotes on Friday March 4th, and Saturday March 5th, to be followed by a reception on Friday evening and an evening of poetry reading at Cafe Remedy by acclaimed local poet Kath MacLean 
Address: Cafe Remedy: 8631 109 Street, EdmontonTime: 7-9pm.

DR. KATH MACLEAN - POET BIO

Since the publication of her award winning first book, For a Cappuccino on Bloor, Kath MacLean’s poetry, nonfiction and creative nonfiction have been generating critical acclaim across Canada and have been published in journals across the country, in the United States, and recently in Europe. A professor of English and creative writing much of the time, MacLean was Writer in Residence for the Canadian Author’s Association (2009/2010).   Last fall she recorded Seed Bone & Hammer, a CD of performance poetry with Lane Arndt.  Her videopoem, There Was A Young Man with Oops Design is now being shown to national and international audiences.  Hot off the press is Kat Among the Tigers (U of A Press 2011), poetry based on the journals and correspondence of modernist Katherine Mansfield.   A second poetryvideo, Doo-Da-Doo-Da,   Mansfield’s experience during the 1915 bombing of France, is forthcoming this spring.  Kath is also thrilled to announce her recent nomination to perform at Harbourfront’s Battle of the Bard this March in Toronto.

MacLean will be reading from an assortment of her work including selections from her new book.