| Description | Due to unforeseen circumstances, this lecture has been canceled.
The Critical Issues Lecture Series is free and open to the public. Registration is not required, but it does help us estimate attendance.Read about the entire lecture series at the link below.
Lisa Robertson is a Toronto, Canada-born poet, essayist, and translator living in France. Robertson spent many years in Vancouver, BC, where she owned Proprioception Books and was a member of the writer-run collective Kootenay School of Writing. Robertson received an honorary doctorate in letters in 2017 from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Between 1997 and 2003, Robertson worked as the Office for Soft Architecture in Vancouver, BC; and, in 2018, she was awarded the first Foundation for Contemporary Arts C.D. Wright Award for Poetry.
Robertson has taught at Princeton University, Piet Zwart Institute, American University of Paris, University of California Berkeley, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, University of California San Diego, Capilano College, Dartington College of Art, the California College of Art, and the University of Cambridge. Her archives are held at the Simon Fraser University Special Collections and Rare Books. |
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