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| First Name | Jason |
| Last Name | Camlot |
| Member Since | February 25, 2022 |
| jason.camlot@concordia.ca | |
| City | Montreal |
| Country | Canada |
| Company | Concordia University |
| Branch Affiliation | Member at Large (no branch affiliation) |
| Website | www.spokenweb.ca |
| @jcsped | |
| https://www.facebook.com/camlot | |
| Bio | Jason Camlot is a poet, songwriter and professor of literature at Concordia University in Montreal. He is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, Vlarf (MQUP, 2021). His recent scholarly works include Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings (Stanford 2019), and the co-edited collections, Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Privite Life of Books (with Jeffrey Weingarten, WLUP, 2021), and CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (with Katherine McLeod, MQUP, 2019). He directs SpokenWeb, a SSHRC partnership that focuses on the history and digital preservation of collections of literary audio. |
| Publications | Vlarf [Poems], McGill-Queens University Press, Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series, November 2021. ISBN 9780228008132 CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event. Co-Edited with Dr. Katherine McLeod. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2019. ISBN: 0773558667 Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press 2019. ISBN: 9781503605213 What The World Said [Poems], Toronto: Mansfield Press, 2013. ISBN: 1771260165 The Debaucher [Poems]. Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2008. ISBN: 1897178611. Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic. Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, U.S.A: Ashgate Publishing, 2008. ISBN: 0 7546 5311 0 Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century. Ed. Jason Camlot and Todd Swift. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 2007. ISBN 1550652257 Attention All Typewriters [Poems] Montreal: DC Books, 2005. ISBN: 0919688012 The Animal Library [Poems]. Montreal: DC Books, 2000. ISBN: 0919688624 |
| Other Memberships | • Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) • North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) • Modern Language Association of America (MLA) • Society for the History of Authorship, Research and Publishing (SHARP) • Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (CSDH) • The League of Canadian Poets • Quebec Writers Federation |
| Awards | • Finalist for Awards for Excellence in Recorded Sound Research, for Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings (Stanford, 2019), Association for Recorded Sound Collections, June 2020. • Donald Gray Prize for Best Essay Published in the field of Victorian Studies (in 2015), for “Historicist Audio Forensics: The Archive of Voices as Repository of Material and Conceptual Artefacts,” 19: Interdiscplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 21 (2015), North American Victorian Studies Association, 2016. • Prix L’Académie de la vie littéraire, for What The World Said, 2014 • Finalist, ReLit Awards (Poetry), for What The World Said, 2014 • Finalist, Expozine Alternative Press Awards 2009, Best English Book, for The Debaucher • Finalist, Gabrielle Roy Prize 2007 (Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures), for Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century (Véhicule Press, 2007) • Finalist, Quebec Writer's Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry 2000, for The Animal Library (DC Books, 2000) |
| Genres | Academic, Nonfiction, Poetry |
| Available For | Readings, Presentations, Workshops, Speaking Engagements |
| Services Offered | Freelance Writing |