Biography
Jason Camlot is a poet, songwriter and scholar who lives in Montreal. He is the author of five collections of poetry, The Animal Library (DC Books 2000), Attention All Typewriters (DC Books 2005), The Debaucher (Insomniac Press 2010), What the World Said (Mansfield Press 2013), and Vlarf (McGill Queen’s 2021). His recent critical works include Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings (Stanford 2019), the co-edited collections, Collection Thinking (with Linda Morra and Martha Lanford, Routledge 2023), Unpacking the Personal Library (with Jeffrey Weingarten, WLUP 2022), CanLit Across Media (with Katherine Mcleod, MQUP 2019), and a recent triple-issue of English Studies in Canada on “New Sonic Approaches in Literary Studies” (with Katherine McLeod, 2023). He is the director of The SpokenWeb research network <www.spokenweb.ca>, a SSHRC-funded partnership that focuses on the history of literary sound recordings and the digital preservation and presentation of collections of literary audio. He is Professor of English and Research Chair in Literature and Sound Studies at Concordia University in Montreal.