Jay RITCHIE
Intermedia; systems theory; deindustrialization; sound studies; new media; digitality; social aesthetics
I am a PhD candidate in English at Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ and work with the Montreal International Poetry Prize as a research assistant for Dr. Eli MacLaren. My work draws on critical theory, performance studies, and media theory to investigate the poetics of contemporary intermedia and reframe central debates around text and performance, bringing controversies around the objecthood of texts into understandings of labour in the post-1970s shift to deindustrialization.
I have taught courses in English, Composition and Rhetoric, and Creative Writing at Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Bishop’s University. I am also a writer and an editor, with poems published in Maisonneuve, SAND, The Dalhousie Review, EVENT, and performed on CBC radio and at the PHI Centre in Montreal. For more info visit jayritchie.org.
Ph.D. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ (exp. 2025)
M.F.A. University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2020
B.A. (Hons.) Concordia University, 2015
Books
(Invisible Publishing, 2024)
Graduate Excellence Fellowship, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, 2023–2025
SSHRC Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement, 2023
Schull Yang Graduate Travel Award, 2023
SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship, 2020–2023
Daniel and Merrily Glosband MFA Fellowship in Poetry, UMass Amherst, 2020