Reg JOHANSON

Reg JOHANSON, BA, MA (SFU)

Publications: 
Reg is the co-author, with Roger Farr and Aaron Vidaver, of N 49 19. 47 – W 123 8. 11 (PILLS 2008), which was one of several works commissioned for the Positions Colloquium on contemporary poetry and poetics held in Vancouver in August 1998. Courage, My Love (Line Books, 2006), brings together a selection of works that have appeared over the last decade in W magazine, the chapbook Chips (Thuja, 2001), and in the anthologies Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Mercury, 2005) and Companions and Horizons (WCL, 2005). Critical work on the poetry of Marie Annharte Baker has appeared in the anthology Antiphonies (The Gig, 2008) and The Capilano Review. Work on Standard English as a classist and racializing disciplinary practice, and on the political economy of “cheating” and plagiarism, has appeared in XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics and as “Working Papers in Critical Practice #1” (recomposition.net); other essays on “the radical” in poetry, on representations of missing women, global urbanization, and radical pedagogy appear or are forthcoming in West Coast Line and The Rain Review. Selections from a new manuscript, Escraches, have appeared or are forthcoming in Matrix, W, and the second volume of the Open Text anthology series published by Capilano University Editions (CUE).

Teaching:
In English 100, 103, 105, 190, 191, 290, and 291 Reg teaches contemporary writing with a focus on struggles against war, imperialism, and neoliberal globalization. Over the last two years readings in his English 100 course have dealt with the Olympics, homelessness, and First nations issues. In English 217 he has taught the graphic novel and texts related to women’s experience of repressive regimes in Maoist China, Iran, the United States and Canada. In English 107 (First Nations Literature and Film) Reg teaches First Nations literature with an emphasis on decolonization.