Speaker

Klara du Plessis

Klara du Plessis is currently the SpokenWeb postdoctoral research fellow at UBC Okanagan’s Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, affiliated with Dr. Karis Shearer’s Audio Media Poetry Lab. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Concordia University and her ongoing research extends across sound studies, curatorial studies, archival studies, and research creation. Klara’s current interests include curatorial structures in the event-formation, performance, and archiving of twentieth century and contemporary literature, and listening as critical method. Klara is also the author of six books, and is known for her contributions to long-form and translingual poetics. Her most recent publications include the poetry collection, Post-Mortem of the Event, and a book of literary criticism on Canadian poetry, I’mpossible Collab. Her debut collection, Ekke, won the 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial Award.

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