Sarah Krotz, PhD (Western), MA (U of T), BA Hons. (McGill)

About

My research focuses on the spatial and ecological dimensions of literature. My book Mapping with Words: Anglo-Canadian Literary Cartographies, 1789-1916 (UTorontoP, 2018) explores the ways that settler writers negotiated and made sense of the shifting landscapes of early Canada, particularly in relation to Indigenous sovereignties and dispossession and environmental change. The Politics of the Canoe (UManitobaP, 2021), co-edited with Bruce Erickson (Geography, University of Manitoba), is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on the multivalenced political meanings of this significant national icon. My recent articles, including “Spatial Ecologies of Not-Belonging: Dwelling as Drift in M. Wylie Blanchet’s The Curve of Time” (co-written with Johannes Riquet and published in ISLE, 2021),  “A Natural History of Loss: Reading ‘The Last Bison’ in the Age of Loneliness” (Canadian Poetry, 2019) and “The Affective Geography of Wild Rice: A Literary Study” (SCL/ELC 2017, winner of the Herb Wyile Prize), work to deepen our understanding of Canada’s complex literary ecologies, and the possibilities they open up for rethinking our relationships with the land. I’m currently writing a monograph on literary ecologies of the parkland biome. 

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Research

* Canadian literature, especially of the long nineteenth century

* Literary cartography, geopoetics, geocriticism

* Natural history, nature writing, ecocriticism

* Colonialism, settlement; Treaty relationships 

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Teaching

Courses Taught: 

ENGL 102 -- Critical Analysis

ENGL 103 -- Case Studies in Research

ENGL 122 – Texts and Contexts: Literature and Everyday Life 

ENGL 124 – Literary Analysis 

ENGL 209 -- Reading Histories: Making Readers

ENGL 219 – Poetics and Narrative Theory

ENGL 373 – Canadian Literature and Colonization: Contact to 1900 

ENGL 374 – Early-Twentieth-Century Canadian Literature

ENGL 376 – Late-Twentieth-Century Canadian Literature 

ENGL 407 – Studies in Canadian Literature: Literary Cartographies 

ENGL 430 – Studies in Theory: Spatialities 

ENGL 430 -- Studies in Theory: A Geopoetics of Habitat

ENGL 591 – Studies in Canadian Literature: Maps, Literature, and the Negotiation of Space

ENGL 591 -- Studies in Canadian Literature: Nature, Wilderness, Ecology

ENGL 591 -- Studies in Canadian Literature: Literary Ecologies

ENGL 800/801 – PhD Colloquium 

ENGL 380 - Writing from Here

Selected works from the Amiskwacîwâskahikan / Edmonton area and the prairies. Prerequisite: *6 of junior English, or *3 of junior English plus WRS 101 or 102.

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ENGL 430 - Studies in Theory

Prerequisites: 12 units of senior ENGL with a minimum of 6 units at the 300 level. Note: variable content course which may be repeated.

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Browse more courses taught by Sarah Krotz

Bruce Erickson & Sarah Wylie Krotz, Editors

University of Manitoba Press. 2021 March;

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Sarah Wylie Krotz & Johannes Riquet

Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 2021 March;

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Literary Review of Canada: A Journal of Ideas. 2020 October;

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Canadian Poetry. 2020 March; 84-85

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University of Toronto Press. 2018 December;

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Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne. 2017 January; 42 (1):13-30

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Teaching Space, Place, and Literature, Ed. Robert T. Tally Jr.. 2017 January;

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Studies in Travel Writing. 2016 September; 20 (3):12

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English Studies in Canada. 2014 September; 40 (2-3):21

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Studies in Canadian Literature. 2014 January; 39 (1):19

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Canadian Literature. 2010 January; 204

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Transplanting Canada: Seedlings/Transplanter le Canada: Semailles. Ed. Marie Carriere and Jerry White. Les Cahiers du CLC/CLC Studies. 2009 January; 1