I teach courses in postcolonial literatures and literary theory, with a strong emphasis on the literatures of Canada. My book Sanctioned Ignorance: the politics of knowledge production and the teaching of the literatures of Canada is under contract with the University of Alberta Press. Since July 1, 2006, I am also the Director of the University of Vermont's Canadian Studies Program.

In my "spare time" I help to run Northwest Passages, a Canadian literature online bookstore and information resource I co-founded in 1996.

If you have any questions about me, my work, or my homeland of Canada, please feel free to contact me.

Areas of Expertise: Comparative Canadian literature; nationalism and theories of the literary institution; the history of Canadian universities and literature departments; postcolonial literatures and literary institutions; indigenous writers from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand; intersections between literature and the other arts, in particular music and photography; distance education and the creation of online learning communities; the applications of technology in the humanities classroom such as blogging, podcasting, and multimodal composition; humanities computing; James Joyce and early 20th century fiction.

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last updated October 12, 2009

Assistant Professor,
Department of English/
Director,
Canadian Studies Program
321 Old Mill
University of Vermont
802.656.8451
Paul.Martin@uvm.edu
iChat/AIM: canlitprof
Twitter: pwmartin