Eli MacLaren

ELI MACLAREN teaches Canadian literature, the history of the book, and poetics in the Department of English at McGill University. He is the author of Dominion and Agency: Copyright and the Structuring of the Canadian Book Trade, 1867–1918 (University of Toronto Press, 2011) and “Copyright and Poetry in Twenty-First-Century Canada,” an FQRSC-funded study of poets’ incomes and fair dealing (Canadian Literature, 2018). His next book, Little Resilience, forthcoming from McGill-Queen’s University Press, is a study of the Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books and the culture of poetry and publishing in mid-twentieth-century Canada. From 2012 to 2017 he was the editor of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, and in 2015 he co-organized the annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) in Montreal.

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