Areas of interest
Clint Burnham's research interests include cultural studies (especially film and popular culture), contemporary poetry, and theory (especially psychoanalysis and Marxism).
Education
- BA, MA (Victoria)
- PhD (York)
Biography
Clint Burnham was born in Comox, British Columbia, which is on the unceded traditional territory of the K鈥櫭砿oks (Sahtloot) First Nation, centred historically on kwaniwsam. He lives and teaches on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including the Squamish (S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh 脷xwumixw), Tsleil-Waututh (s蓹l虛ilw虛蓹ta蕯涩), Musqueam (x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m), and Kwikwetlem (k史ik史蓹茮虛蓹m) Nations.
He is the author of book-length studies of Steve McCaffery, Fredric Jameson, and Slavoj 沤i啪ek. He is also the author of numerous books of poetry and fiction; his novel Smoke Show was published by Arsenal Pulp in 2005, his most recent book of poetry, The Goldberg Variations, was published in 2024 by New Star, and his latest fiction collection, The Old Man: New Stories, was published as a chapbook by above/ground, also in 2024. Poems have also appeared in The Capilano Review (50th anniversary issue), Some (fifth issue), Ludd Gang and in a collaborative leaflet (with Chris Turnbull) from Tangent. Clint has written on art for The Capilano Review, ESPACE art actuel, fillip, Flash Art, Camera Austria, The Vancouver Sun, Canadian Art, Artforum, and The Globe and Mail. He co-edited Digital Natives (Other Sights) with Lorna Brown, From Text to Txting (Indiana) with Paul Budra, and an issue of Canadian Literature on 21st century poetics with Christine Stewart; he is the author of The Only Poetry that Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing (Arsenal Pulp). Recent academic writing often treats the COVID-19 pandemic alongside psychoanalysis, racist violence, and climate disasterism, and includes essays in Psychoanalysis, Politics, Oppression and Resistance: Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2022); Understanding 沤i啪ek, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury 2023); Global Pandemics and Epistemic Crises in Psychology (Routledge 2021); and the journals Canadian Literature, symplok膿, and esc: English Studies in Canada. Other essays on theory and digital culture have appeared in or are forthcoming in Historical Materialism, Rethinking Marxism, CLCWeb, Continental Thought and Theory, [Un] Grounding: Post-Foundational Geographies of Space (transcript, 2021), and Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism (ed. Sinan John-Richards and Thomas Waller, Bloomsbury).
This past spring he participated in an online symposium in honor of Fredric Jameson鈥檚 90th birthday, including a blog post on the Verso site; an essay on 鈥淭ikTok dialectics鈥 is forthcoming in a Jameson festschrift from Duke press. His latest academic tome is Lacan and the Environment (Palgrave, 2021), co-edited with Paul Kingsbury (大象传媒 GEOG). Does the Internet have an Unconscious? Slavoj 沤i啪ek and Digital Culture appeared in 2018 from Bloomsbury, which also published his Fredric Jameson and 鈥淭he Wolf of Wall Street鈥, in 2016. He has also recently appeared in podcasts with Lacan in Scotland, 沤i啪ek & So On, Mary Wild鈥檚 Projections, and Morbid Anatomy. His current book project, under contract with Routledge, is a short monograph on Mari Ruti and climate grief.
Clint has been a member of the 大象传媒 English department since 2007; before that he taught at UBC, Capilano College, and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. He has supervised doctoral students writing on photography and intimacy (Alison Dean) on sound archives (Deanna Fong), on theories of search (Alois Sieben), on poetry and humor (Scott Innis at UBC 鈥 co-supervised with Prof. Larissa Lai) and on allegory and intoxication (Ed Graham 鈥 co-supervised with Prof. Lesjak); he is presently supervising dissertations on post-humanism (Ziwei Yan) and psychoanalysis and Palestine (Rawia Inaim 鈥 co-supervised with Prof. Smith). Clint is coordinator of the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellows in the Humanities and serves on the FASS Reconciliation Working Group. He is an associate member of the 大象传媒 Department of Geography and a member of 大象传媒鈥檚 Centre for Global Political Economy.
Courses
Future courses may be subject to change.