Heather Milne

Title: Professor
Phone: 204.789.1488
Email: h.milne@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

My research focuses on contemporary poetics, mostly in a North American context, with a specific focus on gender and sexuality. I am the author of Poetry Matters: Neoliberalism, Affect, and the Posthuman in Twenty-First Century North American Feminist Poetics (University of Iowa Press, 2018) and co-editor of co-editor of Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics (Coach House, 2009). I have published numerous articles on Canadian and American writers including Syd Zolf, Juliana Spahr, Sina Queyras, Margaret Christakos, and Gail Scott. I co-direct a research project called Museum Queeries that examines queer and two-spirit representation and engagement in museums. Museum Queeries is part of a SSHRC Partnership project called Thinking Through the Museum with research partners from Canada, the United States, Poland, South Africa and the Netherlands. Current projects include an edited collection on queer and Two-Spirit representation in Museums (Jagiellonian University Press, forthcoming), a special issue of Canadian Literature on feminist criticism (2024), and a Handbook of Gender, Poetics and Sexuality (in development). I teach courses on queer literature, women’s writing, poetics, and cultural theory.

Teaching Areas:

Queer Literature, Women’s Writing, Poetics, and Cultural Theory.

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Books

Milne, H. Michelle McGeough and Angela Failler, eds. Museum Queeries: Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, and LGBTTQ* Interventions into Museums and Curation. Exhibiting Theory Series. Jageillonian University Press, forthcoming.

Milne, H.  Social Poesis: The Poetry of Rachel Zolf. Selected with an Introduction by Heather Milne. Laurier Poetry Series. Kitchener: WLU Press, 2019.

Milne, H. Poetry Matters: Neoliberalism, Affect, and the Posthuman in Twenty-First Century North American Feminist Poetics. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2018.  Reviewed in American Literary History 31.4 (Winter 2019) and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature Vol 38 No 2 (Fall 2019) 471-483.

Milne, H. and K. Eichhorn, eds. Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics. Toronto: Coach House Press, 2009.

Guest Edited Journals

Milne, H. and Aubrey Hanson, eds. Feminist Critique Here and Now. Special Issue of Canadian Literature, forthcoming, 2024.

Milne, H., A.  Failler, and  P. Ives, eds. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies. Spec. Double Issue. Caring for Difficult Knowledge: Prospects for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights 37:2-3 (June 2015).

Milne, H. and A. Carr, eds. Open Letter (Spring 2011. 14^th Series No. 5). Spec. Issue dedicated to the work of Lisa Robertson. 

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

Milne, H. “The Poetics and Politics of Affect: Caroline Bergvall, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Rachel Zolf.” The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect. Ed. Todd Reeser. 321-332. (Routledge, 2022)

Milne, H. “Posthuman Assemblies: Ecopoetics and the Political Lyric in That Winter the Wolf Came.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 28.3 (Fall 2021).

Milne, H. “‘How do I Live in a World that Hates Me?’ The Emotional Ecology of Neoliberalism in Nikki Reimer’s Downverse.” Studies in Canadian Literature 45.2 (2021): 72-89.

Milne, H. “The Circuitry of Grief: Mourning and Affect in Sina Queyras’MxT”. All the Feels / Tous les sens: Canadian, Indigenous, and Quebecois Literary Affects. Ed. Marie Carrière, Kit Dobson, and Ursula Moser.  Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2020. 123-140.

Milne, H. “Shannon Maguire’s Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina and Queer Ecopoetics.” ESC: English Studies in Canada 44.3 (September 2018): 91-112.

Milne, H. and K. Eichhorn. “Labours of Love and Cutting Remarks: The Affective Economies of Editing.” Editing as a Cultural Practice. Ed. Dean Irvine and Smaro Kamboureli. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2016.

Milne, H. “Human Rights and/or Market Logic: Neoliberalism, Difficult Knowledge, and the CMHR.” Review of Pedagogy, Education, and Cultural Studies. Prospects for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Spec. Double Issue: Caring for Difficult Knowledge 37:2-3 (June 2015): 106-124.

Milne, H. “Writing the Body Politic: Feminist Poetics in the 21^st Century.” Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Bart Vautour, Erin Wunker, Travis V. Mason, and Christl Verdyn, eds. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2015. 65-86.

Milne, H. “How Lovely and Doomed: Global Connectivity and Difficult Intimacies in Juliana Spahr’s This Connection of Everyone with Lungs” Mosaic 47.2 (June 2014): 203-218.       

Milne, H. “Beyond Inter/Disciplinarity: Feminist Cultural Studies and Innovative Poetics.” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 25 (Spring 2011): 182-189.

Milne, H. “Poetics, Procedure, Politics: Margaret Christakos and the Maternal.” Contemporary Women’s Writing 5.2 (2011): 89-106.

Milne, H. “Across the Generational Divide.” Open Letter. Special Issue on New Feminist Poetics (Spring 2009. 13^th Series No. 9): 135-142.

Milne, H. “Queer Intimacies: Journals and the Politics of Form in Nicole Brossard’s Intimate Journal and Gail Scott’s My Paris.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 23:2 (Winter 2008): 205-225.

Milne, H. “The Elliptical Subject: Citation and Reciprocity in Critical Readings of Ana Historic” Canadian Poetry 57. (Fall/Winter 2005): 86-102.