Priscila Uppal, PhD
Priscila Uppal’s teaching and research interests include English Poetry, European Poetry, Canadian Literature, World Literature, reading culture and representations of readers in art, revisionist mythmaking, adaptation, and the artistic process.
As editor, her publications include Uncommon Ground: Matt Cohen, Red Silk: An Anthology of South-Asian Canadian Women’s Poetry, and the forthcoming Barry Callaghan: Essays on His Works.
An academic book, We Are What We Mourn: The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy, is forthcoming from McGill-Queen’s University press (pending funding approval). The book is intended to make contributions to the fields of Canadian Literature, English Poetry, Elegy Studies, Genre Studies, Mourning Studies, and Multi-cultural and Post-Colonial Literatures.
She has been involved in co-organizing, along with Prof. Richard Teleky, various Authors Series Events and Mini-Conferences at York University, including the annual Ethnicity and Literature Mini-Conference, focusing on literature that represents or is written by a specific ethnic group (past conferences include South-Asian Canadian Literature, Korean-Canadian Literature, and Hungarian-Canadian Literature). She has published on Creative Writing pedagogy, the art of poetry, South-Asian Canadian writing, and forthcoming are pieces on the work of Barry Callaghan.
In addition to teaching and lecturing in the graduate and undergraduate programs of English and the Humanities at York University, Priscila Uppal frequently gives guest lectures, talks, workshops, in academic and non-academic circles about writing, reading, literacy, ethnicity, revisionism, genres, pedagogy, among many other topics, in Canada and the United States, and sometimes beyond (Scotland and Brazil). She has appeared on numerous TV and radio programs and panels, and has been reviewed and/or profiled in national and international papers. (Click here to see a full list of Priscila Uppal’s events.)
