Research Area(s)
- 19th Century Canadian poetry and culture
- Literary representations of the railway in Canada
- Influence of American Transcendentalism on 19th Century Canadian literature and culture
- Canadian literary criticism with an eye to interrogating shifts in the Canadian canon away from literary value and toward theoretical positioning
About me
Kevin Flynn has published previously on 19th-century Canadian poetry and culture, particularly as concerns literary representations of the railway in Canada. His current research and teaching is on Canadian speculative fiction. Dr. Flynn is the former editor of Essays on Canadian Writing.
Publications
“The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: Wayne Johnston’s Newfoundland Conversion Narrative.” Canadian Literature 206 (2010): 13-28.
"Strange Bedfellows: Sacred and Profane Love in the Poetry of John Donne and Leonard Cohen. Canadian Poetry 65 (2009): 43-64.
“The Railway in Canadian Poetry.” Canadian Literature 174 (2000): 70-95.
“Where is Here Now?” Ed. and intro, special edition of Essays on Canadian Writing 71 (2000).
“Destination Nation: Nineteenth-Century Travels Aboard the Canadian Pacific Railway.” Essays on Canadian Writing 67 (1999): 190-222.
Research
19th Century Canada culture literature poetry
Kevin Flynn has published previously on 19th-century Canadian poetry and culture, particularly as concerns literary representations of the railway in Canada. His current research and teaching is on Canadian speculative fiction. Dr. Flynn is the former editor of Essays on Canadian Writing.