Jay RITCHIE

I am a PhD candidate in English at McGill University and work with the Montreal International Poetry Prize as a research assistant for Dr. Eli MacLaren. My work draws on critical theory, performance studies, and media theory to investigate the poetics of contemporary intermedia and reframe central debates around text and performance, bringing controversies around the objecthood of texts into understandings of labour in the post-1970s shift to deindustrialization.

I have taught courses in English, Composition and Rhetoric, and Creative Writing at McGill University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Bishop’s University. I am also a writer and an editor, with poems published in Maisonneuve, SAND, The Dalhousie Review, EVENT, and performed on CBC radio and at the PHI Centre in Montreal. For more info visit jayritchie.org.