Karis Shearer

Karis Shearer is an associate professor in English & Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus. Her research and teaching focus on literary audio, the literary event, the digital archive, material culture, and women’s labour within poetry communities. She has published on a range of cultural production, including Sina Queyras’s feminist blog Lemonhound, George Bowering’s little magazine Imago, and Michael Ondaatje’s The Long Poem Anthology. At UBC Okanagan, she directs the AMP Lab and leads the UBCO team within the SpokenWeb Partnership.