Melanie Dennis Unrau

Title:Instructor
Email:me.unrau@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Dr. Melanie Dennis Unrau (she/her) is a settler of mixed European ancestry living on Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg. Melanie is a Visiting Fellow at St. John's College (University of Manitoba) and a Research Affiliate at the University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities. She is the author ofHappiness Threads: The Unborn Poems(Muses’ Company, 2013), a co-editor ofSeriality and Texts for Young People: The Compulsion to Repeat(Palgrave, 2014), and a former editor ofGeezmagazine andThe Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada. Melanie is working on a book titled “The Rough Poets: Petropoetics and the Tradition of Canadian Oil-Worker Poetry,” which is on contract with McGill-Queen's University Press.

Teaching Areas:

cultural studies, Canadian literature, Canadian poetry, ecopoetics, environmental and energy humanities

Courses:
(W) ENGL-1003-005 Intro: Topics in Literature

Publications:

POETRY:
Happiness Threads: The Unborn Poems.The Muses’ Company, 2013.
10 poems.Exposed, edited by Catherine Hunter. The Muses’ Company, 2002, pp. 35-51.

EDITED VOLUME:
Reimer, Mavis, Nyala Ali, Deanna England, and Melanie Dennis Unrau, eds.Seriality and Texts for Young People: The Compulsion to Repeat.Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

BOOK CHAPTER:
Reimer, Mavis, Nyala Ali, Deanna England, and Melanie Dennis Unrau. “Introduction: The Compulsion to Repeat.”Seriality and Texts for Young People: The Compulsion to Repeat.Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp. 1-33.

JOURNAL ARTICLES:
(with Mavis Reimer, Deanna England, and Nyala Ali) “The Compulsion to Repeat.”Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung[German Yearbook of Children’s Literature Research], 2017, pp. 9-35,http://www.gkjf.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Jahrbuch_GKJF_2017_9-35_Reimer_ua.pdf.
“Play, Battling: Representing Resistant Mothers with ‘Mothers Who Refuse to Choose.’”Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement,vol. 3, no. 2, 2012, pp. 17-32.

EDITED JOURNAL ISSUES:
Follett, Alec, Melanie Dennis Unrau, and Amanda Di Battista, co-editors.The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada, 3 issues (vol. 17, no. 2, 2019; vol. 17, no. 1, 2018; and vol. 16, no. 2, 2018), https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/.

EDITED MAGAZINE ISSUES:
Poetics of Resistance.Geez, no. 52, 2019.
Geez,8 issues, 2011-2014, www.geezmagazine.org.