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

Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts - English & Film Studies Dept

Contact

Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts - English & Film Studies Dept
Email
krotz@ualberta.ca
Address
4-19 Humanities Centre
11121 Saskatchewan Drive NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 2H5

Overview

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. 


Research

* Canadian literature, especially of the long nineteenth century

* Literary cartography, geopoetics, geocriticism

* Natural history, nature writing, ecocriticism

* Colonialism, settlement; Treaty relationships 



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 



Courses

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.


ENGL 591 - Canadian Texts


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Publications

The Politics of the Canoe

Author(s): Bruce Erickson & Sarah Wylie Krotz, Editors
Publication Date: 3/30/2021
Publication: University of Manitoba Press
External Link: https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/the-politics-of-the-canoe

Spatial Ecologies of Not-Belonging: Dwelling as Drift in M. Wylie Blanchet’s The Curve of Time

Author(s): Sarah Wylie Krotz & Johannes Riquet
Publication Date: 3/1/2021
Publication: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
External Link: https://academic.oup.com/isle/advance-article/doi/10.1093/isle/isab008/6155893?login=true

"Migrations: Meanwhile, Down Below"

Author(s): Sarah Wylie Krotz
Publication Date: 10/1/2020
Publication: Literary Review of Canada: A Journal of Ideas
External Link: https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2020/10/migrations/

"A Natural History of Loss: Reading 'The Last Bison' in the Age of Extinction"

Author(s): Sarah Krotz
Publication Date: 3/9/2020
Publication: Canadian Poetry
Volume: 84-85
Page Numbers: 7-30
External Link: http://canadianpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Studies-1-84-85.pdf

Mapping with Words: Anglo-Canadian Literary Cartographies, 1789-1916

Author(s): Sarah Wylie Krotz
Publication Date: 12/1/2018
Publication: University of Toronto Press
External Link: https://utorontopress.com/ca/mapping-with-words-1

"The Affective Geography of Wild Rice: A Literary Study"

Author(s): Sarah Wylie Krotz
Publication Date: 2017
Publication: Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne
Volume: 42
Issue: 1
Page Numbers: 13-30
External Link: https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/scl/2017-v42-n1-scl42_1/scl42_1art01/

"Thinking Geocritically: Teaching Canadian Literature in Treaty Six Territory"

Author(s): Sarah Wylie Krotz
Publication Date: 2017
Publication: Teaching Space, Place, and Literature, Ed. Robert T. Tally Jr.
Page Numbers: 77-86

"The Hum of the Earth: Natural History as Ecological Narrative in Elizabeth Hay's Late Nights on Air and Jennifer Kingsley's Paddlenorth."

Author(s): Sarah Wylie Krotz
Publication Date: 9/6/2016
Publication: Studies in Travel Writing
Volume: 20
Issue: 3
Page Numbers: 12
External Link: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13645145.2016.1215059

"Place and Memory: Rethinking the Literary Map of Canada"

Author(s): Sarah Wylie Krotz
Publication Date: 9/1/2014
Publication: English Studies in Canada
Volume: 40
Issue: 2-3
Page Numbers: 21
External Link: https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/media-library/people/krotz/fa92be37e765494cbe46e7a992f0d2f6/25509-64553-1-sm.pdf

"A Poetics of Simpson Pass: Natural History and Place-Making in Rocky Mountains Park"

Author(s): Sarah Wylie Krotz
Publication Date: 2014
Publication: Studies in Canadian Literature
Volume: 39
Issue: 1
Page Numbers: 19
External Link: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/22755

“Shadows of Indian Title: The Territorial Underpinnings of ‘The Height of Land.’”

Author(s): Sarah Krotz
Publication Date: 2010
Publication: Canadian Literature
Volume: 204
Page Numbers: 16
External Link: https://canlit.ca/full-issue/?issue=204

“The Names of Places and the Place of Names: Late Nights on Air and the Possibilities of Literary Cartography.”

Author(s): Sarah Krotz
Publication Date: 2009
Publication: Transplanting Canada: Seedlings/Transplanter le Canada: Semailles. Ed. Marie Carriere and Jerry White. Les Cahiers du CLC/CLC Studies
Volume: 1
Page Numbers: 6
External Link: https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/media-library/people/krotz/24bbd547bf5d49cdba355173b564d86a/krotz--the-names-of-places-and-the-place-of-names-.pdf