Executive Board and Staff / Comité directeur et personnel
CLC Director
Sarah Wylie Krotz
Sarah Wylie Krotz is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies, where she researches the spatial and ecological dimensions of literature. Her book Mapping with Words: Anglo-Canadian Literary Cartographies, 1789-1916 (UTorontoP, 2018) explores the ways that writers negotiated and made sense of the shifting landscapes of early Canada, particularly in relation to Indigenous sovereignties and dispossession and environmental change. She co-edited a book called The Politics of the Canoe (UManitobaP, 2021) with Bruce Erickson (Geography, University of Manitoba), an interdisciplinary collection of essays on the multivalenced political meanings of this significant national icon. Her recent articles, including “Outside Words” (Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies, 2023) and “A Natural History of Loss: Reading ‘The Last Bison’ in the Age of Loneliness” (Canadian Poetry, 2019), work to deepen our understanding of Canada’s complex literary ecologies, and the possibilities they open up for rethinking our relationships with the land.
CLC Executive Board
Michael A. Bucknor
Marie Carrière
Conor Kerr
Michelle Lobkowicz
Stephanie Oliver
Jason Purcell
CLC Staff
Nicole Brandsma, Business Manager - cdnlit@ualberta.ca
Nicole Brandsma is a PhD graduate of the Department of English and Film Studies and continues to teach in the department as a contract instructor. Her doctoral work examined the way that settler writers in northwestern British Columbia situate their sense of place on the unceded territories of First Nations, in the Skeena watershed, and in the communities along the Highway of Tears. In particular, her dissertation, "Uprooting and Re-Routing a Settled Sense of Place: Reading Settler Literary Cartographies of Northwestern British Columbia," focuses primarily on the work of writer, poet, and scholar Sarah de Leeuw.
Heléna Plain, Communications & Research Officer - hplain@ualberta.ca
Heléna Plain is the face behind the CLC's 2023/24 promotional posters and social media. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English and History from the University of Alberta. In her spare time, Heléna enjoys torturing her friends with bad puns, climbing rocks, and baking. Outside of her role at the CLC, Heléna works as a web designer.