Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, English Literature
University of Western Ontario (1997)
Master of Arts, English Literature
University of Western Ontario (1993)
Honours Bachelor of Arts, English Literature and Art History
Carleton University (1992)

Research and Teaching Interests

Peter Jaeger’s research and teaching interests include Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; Conceptual Writing and Text-Based Art; Canadian Literature; Ecopoetics; Comparative Religion and Literature; Psychoanalysis and Literature. His published work includes the poetry collections Power Lawn (Coach House Books 1999), Eckhart Cars (Salt 2004), Prop (Salt 2007), Rapid Eye Movement (Reality Street Editions 2009) and The Persons (Information as Material 2011), as well as the critical study ABC of Reading TRG: Steve McCaffery, bpNichol, and the Toronto Research Group (Talonbooks 2000). Writing by Jaeger has appeared in Performance Research, West Coast Line, Sulfur, the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry and numerous other journals. He is currently writing a book on John Cage, which is set to be published by Continuum Press in 2013.