B.A. (Concordia); M.A. (University of Victoria), Ph.D. (York University)
Research Interests: Creative writing; world literature; settler colonial fiction; Jewish fiction; Israel/Palestine studies;
eco- fiction.
Additional Information: www.aaronkreuter.com
Longer writeup of Research Interests: Aaron Kreuter is a novelist, poet, and academic. His most recent book, the academic
monograph, Leaving Other People Alone: Diaspora, Zionism, and Palestine in Contemporary Jewish Fiction is now available from University of Alberta Press. His poetry collection, Shifting Baseline Syndrome, was shortlisted for the 2022 Governor
General's Award for Poetry, the Raymond Souster Award, and the Vine Awards for Jewish Literature. He is also the author of the poetry collection Arguments For Lawn Chairs, and the short story collection You and Me, Belonging. Aaron's academic work explores Jewish North American fiction, diaspora, and Israel/Palestine, and has won numerous awards. Aaron is currently an assistant professor of English Literature at Trent University. A short story collection, Rubble Children, is coming out summer 2024 from University of Alberta Press. His first novel, Lake Burntshore, is forthcoming
from ECW Press in fall 2025.
Current Projects:
Unsettled Jews. A monograph on Jewish world literature and the settler colonial encounter.
Rubble Children: A collection of interlinked short stories, forthcoming from University of Alberta Press, Summer 2024.
Lake Burntshore: A novel set at a Jewish sleepover camp, forthcoming from ECW Press in 2025.
Selected Publications:
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2020 |
“Jewish Affect During the Second Intifada: Terror, Love, and Procreation in Ayelet Tsabari’s ‘Tikkun.’” All the Feels: Tous les sens: Affect and Writing in Canada / Affect et écriture au Canada. Eds. Marie Carrière, Ursula Mathis-Moser, and Kit Dobson. The University of Alberta Press, 2021. Pp 225-244. |
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2019 |
“Against ‘Jewish Totalism’: Operation Shylock: A Confession’s Missing Chapter.” Philip Roth Studies vol. 15, no. 2 (2019), pp. 24-43. |
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2019 |
“‘A Meat Locker in Hebron’: Meat Eating, Occupation, and Cruelty in To the End of the Land.” Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought vol. 7, no. 1 (2019). Special Issue: Muddied Waters: Decomposing the Anthropocene. |
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2023 |
Leaving Other People Alone: Diaspora, Zionism and Palestine in Contemporary Jewish Fiction. May 2023, University of Alberta Press. |
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2023 |
“Lit Studies in a Human Age.” Review of Erin James’ Narrative in the Anthropocene and Martin Puchner’s Literature for a Changing Planet. Forthcoming, Canadian Literature.
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BOOKS |
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Shifting Baseline Syndrome. Poetry collection published by Oskana Poetry and Poetics, March 12, 2022. ISBN: 9780889778542. 89 pages. |
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Finalist for Governor General’s Literary Award Shortlisted for League of Canadian Poets’ Raymond Souster Award Shortlisted for Vine Awards for Jewish Literature Included in CBC’s Best Poetry Books of 2022 List Positive Reviews in The Temz Review, ARC Poetry, SaskBooks Review, The Miramichi Reader |
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You and Me, Belonging. Short fiction collection published by Tightrope Books, Nov. 1St, 2018. ISBN: 9781988040417. 208 pages. |
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Winner of The Miramichi Reader's Best of Award 2019 for Short Fiction Shortlisted for the 2019 Vine Awards for Jewish Literature Shortlisted for the 2019 ReLit Award for Short Fiction Positive Reviews in The Canadian Jewish News, The Miramichi Reader. |
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Arguments for Lawn Chairs. Poetry collection published by Guernica Editions, Aug. 1St, 2016. ISBN: 9781771831352. 70 Pages. |
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Positive Reviews in Canadian Literature, The Rusty Toque, Blue Cat Review. |