Rishma Dunlop

Rishma Dunlop’s teaching and research interests are multidisciplinary and include post structural and feminist theory; contemporary fiction and poetry; creative nonfiction; English and World literatures; Canadian literature; literary translation; postcolonial and diasporic literatures; literature of witness; creative writing; cultural studies; aesthetics; fine arts practices and cultural production; women and literature; environmental writing, and documentary photography.

Rishma Dunlop is the author of four books of poetry: White Album (2008), Metropolis (2005), Reading Like a Girl (2004), and The Body of My Garden (2002). Publications as editor include White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood (2007), Art, Literature and Place: An Ecopoetics Reader (2008), and Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets (co-edited with Priscila Uppal in 2004) and she won the Emily Dickinson Prize for Poetry in 2003 and she was a finalist for the CBC Canada Council Literary Awards in 1998. Her radio drama, “The Raj Kumari’s Lullaby,” was commissioned and produced by CBC Radio in 2005. Her essays, poetry, reviews, and lectures have been published in literary and scholarly journals including: Blackbird; Literary Review of Canada; Canadian Literature; The Comstock Review; Descant; Event; Grain; Room of One’s Own; Changing English: Studies in Reading and Culture; English Teaching: Practice and Critique; Literator: Journal of Linguistics, Language, and Literature; Canadian Journal of Environmental Education; Journal of Curriculum Theory; Journal of Educational Thought; Canadian Journal of Education; National Women’s Studies Journal, and Poeisis: Journal of Arts and Communication.

Dunlop frequently gives invited conference keynotes, lectures, and workshops on writing, creativity, artistic practices, literature and human rights, the role of the artist in contemporary society, and pedagogy. Her conference keynotes have included: The University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland; University of New Mexico; McGill University; Queen’s University, School of Policy Studies; University of British Columbia; Lakehead University; Yukon Arts Centre; Arizona State University, and Stanford University. Dunlop is creator and founding editor of Studio, an international journal of poetry.

Bibliography
White Album (Inanna Publications, 2008)
Metropolis (Mansfield Press, 2005)
Reading Like a Girl (Black Moss Press, 2004)
The Body of My Garden (Mansfield Press, 2002)

Awards
Emily Dickinson Prize for Poetry (2003)
Longlist Chapters-Robertson Davies Prize for Fiction (1999)
Shortlist CBC Literary Award for Poetry (1998)