I am a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. I study place, poetics, and periodicals.
With the support of a Killam Doctoral Award and a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, my research maps and examines literary constructions of Atlantic Canadian regional identity in Canadian small press poetry. My work combines literary-critical, bibliographical, and historical perspectives and methodologies. I turn to Dalhousie University’s extensive “Canadian Small Press Collection” to map diverse and shifting fields of poetic production over the latter half of the twentieth century. I am a Nova Scotia Graduate Scholar and a Provost-Alumni Special Scholar. My MA thesis from Dalhousie traced the circulatory poetics of The Song Fisherman’s Song Sheet, a periodical printed in Halifax, NS in the late 1920’s. I have an Honours BSc in biology with a minor in English from the University of Ottawa.
I have planted trees for many summers. I write poetry, knit, and make textile-poems.
marissa carroll 