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Senior Lecturer (Creative Writing) , Programme Convener (MA Creative and Professional Writing)

Telephone : +44 (0)20 8392 8135
Email : p.jaeger@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : English and Creative Writing
Office location : Fincham 110

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 Interests

Literature since 1945 (with a special focus on poetry and poetics); Literary Theory; Canadian Literature; Conceptual Poetics; Creative Writing

Teaching Interests

  • Senior Lecturer, Roehampton University, London (2003-present). Poetry and Innovative Form (graduate level); Creative Reading and Viewing: Theory for Creative Writers (graduate level); The Short Poetic Sequence; Writing Poetry.
  • Lecturer (0.5 FTE), Dartington College of Arts, Devon, England (2001-2). Critical Theory (graduate level); Materialities and Narratives.
  • Visiting Lecturer, Royal Holloway College, University Of London (1999-2001). Postmodernism and Poetry (graduate level); Philosophy and Literature; Modern Critical Theory; Critical Practice II.
  • Sessional Lecturer, University of Western Ontario (1997-1998). Theories of Literature and Culture; Reading Popular Culture; Creative Writing; Principles of Writing and Expository Method (Online).
  • Teaching Assistant, University of Western Ontario (1992-1997). Seminar leader, and occasional lecturer in General Literature and Composition; Western Literature and Civilization; General Introduction to Film; Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Other Forms of Romance and Satire.

Publications

Thinner. Ottawa: above / ground press broadside #292, 2009.
“The Rurals.” English: The Journal of the English Association. 58.223 (2009).
“Aorta Softens.” Filling Station. 41 (2008).
“Maybe Whatever.” Veer Off. 015 (2008).
“A Black Tooth in Front” (excerpt). Ecopoetics 4/5 (2006)
“Rapid Eye Movement” (excerpt). Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory 12.5 (2005).
“Eckhart Cars” (excerpt). The Gig 16 (2004).
“Pollard.” Ecopoetics 3 (2003).>
“Lattice Effect.” West Coast Line 40.37 (2003).
“Martyrologies.” Queen Street Quarterly. (2002).
“Roil.” Verdure 5-6 (2002).
“Pollen” (excerpt). Capilano Review. 2.34 (2001).
“Pollen” (excerpt). CCCP X (2000).
“For Revel, Press Swivel.” Sulfur 44 (1999).
“Praxis Meets Taxes.” Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory. 10.6 (1999).
“Claque.” Rampike. 10.2 (1999).
“Glimmer.” West Coast Line. 25 (1998).
“Operations.” Antenym 14. (1997).
“Painting.” Absinthe 7.1 (1994).
“’I am something nonne’: Jeff Hilson’s Nature Writing.” Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry 2. 2 (2010).
"Ethnicity, Ecopoetics, and Fred Wah’s Biotext." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 46.2 (2010).
“But Could I Make A Living From It?”: Jeff Derksen’s Modular Form.“ Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review 203 (2010).
“Sentences on Christian Bök’s Eunoia: Writing after Language Writing, Oulipo and Conceptual Art.” The Journal of Writing in Creative Practice: Writing Encounters within Performance and Pedagogical Practice. 2.1 (2009).
“Bokmaskinskidsen: ett ABC” OEI 11 (2002). [Swedish translation of “A Short Introduction to the Kids of the Book Machine,” on the Toronto Research Group].
"Ethics, Transference and Translation Poetics." English: The Journal of the English Association 50.198 (2001).
"The Purloined Aleph Beth." Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory. 10.6 (1999).
“Of Crystallography." [On Christian Bök’s Crystallography] Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory. 10.1 (1998)
“Steve McCaffery on the TRG." [interview]. Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory. 10.4 (1998).
"'Contradiction...contains the diction:' Translation Strategies in bpNichol's The Martyrology." West Coast Line 29/30 (1996).
"You Can Call Me Lenny: Ira Nadel's Leonard Cohen: A Life in Art." Canadian Poetry 38 (1996).
“’The Land Created a Body of Lore’:The Green Story in John Steffler's The Afterlife of George Cartwright." English Studies in Canada 21.1 (1995).
"‘Thereographic Metawriting’ in The Ballad of Isabel Gunn." Canadian Poetry 34 (1994).
"Reception, Difference, and the Documentary Collage: Manina Jones’ That Art of Difference" Canadian Poetry 35 (1994).
Rapid Eye Movement. Hastings: Reality Street Editions, 2009.
Prop. Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2007.
Eckhart Cars. Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2003.
Power Lawn. Toronto: Coach House Books, 1999.
Pollen. Calgary: House P, 2002.
Sub-Twang Mustard. Calgary: House P, 2000.
Bibliodoppler. London: Writer’s Forum, 1999.
Blue Hero. London: Writer’s Forum, 1999.
Leasing Glass. Buffalo: Meow P, 1998.
Stretch Conflates. Buffalo: Tailspin P, 1997.
Hoffman Compositions. Toronto: Fingerprinting Inkoperated, 1996.
"Rapid Eye Movement"(excerpt). Against Expression: Contemporary Conceptual Poetics. Ed. Kenneth Goldsmith and Craig Dworkin. Evanston, Il: Northwestern University Press, 2011.
“Eckhart Cars.” The Reality Street Book of Sonnets. Ed. Jeff Hilson. Hastings: Reality Street Editions, 2008.
“Animals.” Turning Toward Living. Ed Alec Finlay. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Arts, 2004.
“Overturn Marshall Curfew.” Onsets: A Breviary of Poems 13 Lines or Under. Ed. Nate Dorwood. Toronto: The Gig, 2004.
“An Extension of Standard Practice.” The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against The War. Ed. Darren Wershler-Henry. Toronto: Three Squares P, 2003.
“Accoil.” Word Score Utterance Choreography. Ed. Bob Cobbing and Lawrence Upton. London:Writer’s Forum, 1998.
Nothing to Say: Buddhism and Poetic Innovation. London: Continuum (forthcoming).
ABC of Reading TRG: Steve McCaffery, bpNichol, and the Toronto Research Group. The New Canadian Criticism Series. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1999.
Kootenay School of Writing. Vancouver, Canada. September 4, 2009.
Calder Bookshop, London, England, May 28, 2009
Roehampton University, London, December 5, 2008.
Crossing the Line. Poetry Society, London, England. November 25, 2005.
University of Sophia, Bulgaria. March, 2004.
Total Writing London Festival. Camden People’s Theatre, London, England. 28 June, 2003.
Text Excavation and the Word Festival. Phoenix Theatre. Exeter, England. May, 2003.
Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry. Cambridge University, England. April, 2000.
Platform Gallery, London, England. July 31, 1999.
Canadian Poetry Festival. Cornershop Gallery. Buffalo, NY, USA. February 7, 1998
On The H Orizon: bpNichol After Ten. Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, Canada. September 26, 1998.
University of Western Ontario. London, Ontario, Canada. January 26, 1997.
“Poetics and the Social Bond.” Kootenay School of Writing. Vancouver, Canada. September 5, 2009.
“Ethnicity, Ethics and Fred Wah’s Ecopoetics.” Postcoloniality and Ecology. Roehampton University, London, England. November 14-15, 2008.
“Psychoanalysis and ‘Impersonal’ Poetries.” Blood Remembering: Psychoanalysis and Poetry. Annual Day in Applied Psychoanalysis. University of Toronto, Canada. September 27, 2008.
“Christian Bök’s Conceptual Poetics.” Writing Encounters. University of York St. John, York, England. September 11-14, 2008.
“Jeff Derksen’s But Can I Make A Living From It." Long Poems:::Major Forms. University of Sussex Centre for Modernist Studies, Brighton. May 16-17, 2008.
“Ecopoetics and Materiality.” Contemporary Writing Environments. Brunel University, London. July 8-10, 2004.
"The Pause of Translation." Language/Poetry/Performance. De Montfort University, Leicester. December 8-9, 2000.
"The Portable Nichol." On The H Orizon: bpNichol After Ten. Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, British Columbia. September 25-26, 1998.
"Looking at ABC." EyeRhymes: A Multi-Disciplinary, International Conference on Visual Poetry. University of Alberta, Edmonton. June 12-16, 1997.
"Steve McCaffery's 'Politics beyond Politics'." 20th Century Literature Conference. University of Kentucky, Louisville. February 20-22, 1997.
"'Hegel's Eyes'; McCaffery's Blinding." LEXIS. University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. October 27, 1995.
"Reading Translating bpNichol." Association of Canadian College and University Teachers Conference. The Learned Societies Conference. University of Montreal. June 1, 1995.
“Fresco Fragment 6th C. Unknown.” 26 Treasures at the Victoria and Albert Museum. http://www.26treasures.com/image-galleries/supplements
“The Settlers.” Performance Research: Transplantations. 14.4 (2010).
“Science Fiction.” [text-based video animation]. Post_Moot 2010: a 2nd convocation of unorthodox cultural and poetic practices. Miami University, Ohio, USA. April 22-25, 2010.
“Cloudtown” Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory. 13.5 (2008).
“Asanas” [Text installation]. Text 2004: A festival of Writers for Exeter. Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, UK, 2004.
“When To Write Prose.” Essays on Canadian Writing. 69 (1999).
"E.R.'s Language of Enjoyment." Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory. 9.9 (1997).
“Generic Borderblurs: Non-Fiction, Fiction, Poetry.” Research Seminar, Centre for Research in Creative and Professional Writing. Roehampton University. February 21, 2008.
“What are we Doing Here?: Creative Writing as an Academic Discourse.” Inaugural lecture. Centre for Research in Creative and Professional Writing. Roehampton University. October 10, 2007
"A Record of Negative Retrieval." King's Talks. King's College, University of London. March 15, 2000.
"Poetheory?" Performance Writing Program. Dartington College of Arts. Totnes, Devon. January 9, 2000.
"Probable Systems" Wednesdays at Four: SUNY-Buffalo Poetics Program Lecture Series. Buffalo, New York. April 14, 1999.