Eric Schmaltz, an intermedia artist, poet, scholar, and editor, is an Assistant Professor of Canadian Literature in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. He holds a Ph.D. in English from York University and, from 2018-2019, he was an SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
His research focuses on contemporary and twentieth-century Canadian avant-garde literature and art, with a special emphasis on intermedial practices, small press literary cultures, and sound studies. He is the author of Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-gardism in Canada, 1963-1988 (University of Calgary Press). he also edited and introduced Another Order: Selected Works of Judith Copithorne (Talonbooks) as well as forthcoming We Have Seasonal Bodies: The Poetry of Gerry Shikatani (Wilfrid Laurier University Press). He introduced and co-edited I Want to Tell You Love by bill bissett and Milton Acorn. His writing has been published in scholarly forums, including Jacket2, Canadian Literature, English Studies in Canada, Canadian Poetry, Forum Journal and peer-reviewed collections such as Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound and Future Horizons: Canadian Digital Humanities.
In his creative practice, Schmaltz works between and across media – print, digital audio and field recordings, animated video, 3D-printed sculpture, and more – and has been published, exhibited, and performed nationally and internationally in Canada, the United States, France, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and elsewhere. He is the author of Surfaces (Invisible Publishing), excerpts of which were selected for Best American Experimental Writing: 2020, and I Confess (Coach House Books). Both of these books have placed in the Alcuin Society’s Competition for Awards For Excellence in Book Design in Canada. His work can also be found in literary journals, including Echolocation, Revue Doc(k)s, The Capilano Review, Arc Poetry, Berkeley Poetry Review, Trinity Poetry Review, and elsewhere.
Schmaltz lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia.
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