Dr Robert G. May

PhD Queen's

Contact Information

Office: Watson 524
Office Hours: Monday 10:00–11:30, Friday 10:00–11:30 or by appointment
Extension: 77951
E-mail: mayr@queensu.ca
Website: http://post.queensu.ca/~mayr/

Research Interests

Modern Canadian poetry in English, especially F. R. Scott and the Montréal poets; contemporary Canadian poetry in English, especially John Barton and Gary Geddes; human rights and social justice writing; LGBTQ theory and literatures.

Recent Publications

• Editorial Advisory Board, A Canadian Writer's Reference. Fifth Edition. By Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers. Boston and New York: Bedford/St Martin's, 2011. Print.
• Editor, Duncan Campbell Scott’s In the Village of Viger: A Critical Edition (Ottawa: Tecumseh, 2010).
• Editor, Gary Geddes: Essays on His Works (Toronto: Guernica, 2010).
• “The Third Partner: John Barton and the Poetry of AIDS,” Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 61 (2007): 36–54.
• “ ‘Moving from Face to Place’: Landscape and Longing in the Poetry of John Barton,” Studies in Canadian Literature 30 (2005): 245–69.
• “F. R. Scott and Social Justice in the 1930s,” Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 53 (2003): 33–53.