Rishma Dunlop
Associate Professor
B.A. University of Alberta; M.A. University of British Columbia; Ph.D. University of British Columbia
rdunlop@edu.yorku.ca
337 Calumet College
416-736-2100 x 30163
Rishma Dunlop is an award winning Canadian poet, playwright, essayist, and fiction writer. Her books of poetry are: Metropolis (Mansfield Press, 2005), Reading Like a Girl (Black Moss Press, 2004), and The Body of My Garden (Mansfield Press, 2002). Books as editor include: White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood (Demeter Press, 2007) and Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets (Mansfield Press, 2004). She received the Emily Dickinson Prize for Poetry in 2003, and her radio drama, “The Raj Kumari’s Lullaby,” was produced by CBC Radio in 2005. Her poems have appeared in anthologies and journals including Blackbird, Literary Review of Canada, CV2, Canadian Literature, Descant, Event, Grain, and The Comstock Review. She has given keynotes and lectures at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki; University of New Mexico; McGill University; Queen’s University, School of Policy Studies; University of British Columbia; Lakehead University; Stanford, and Arizona State University. She is a professor in the Faculty of Education and the Department of English at York University, Toronto, where she is Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program. She is founding editor of the international poetry journal Studio.
Scholarly Interests
literary studies and fine arts; English education; literary theory; contemporary fiction and poetry; creative writing; writing pedagogy; postcolonial and diasporic literatures; literacy and human rights education; literature and art of witness; fine arts cultural studies; photography, film and education; critical and cultural literacies; issues of difference-race, gender, marginalization; aesthetics and imagination; visual art; women artists in higher education; fine arts practice based research.