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Neil Querengesser

Dr. Neil Querengesser

Professor Emeritus (Retired, 2022)

Education and Interests

  • PhD, English, 1989, University of Calgary
  • MA, English, 1982, University of Calgary
  • BA, English, 1979, University of Edmonton

Dr. Querengesser specializes in Canadian Literature.

Select Publications

Querengesser, Neil. “In Media Res’: Alice Major’s Perilous Invitation to the Anthropocene.” Canadian Literature 252 (2023): 35-56.

Querengesser, Neil. “Science and the City: The Poetics of Alice Major’s Edmonton.” Writing Alberta, edited by Donna Coates and George Melnyk, U of C Press, 2017.

– – –.  “Margaret Avison’s Christmas Terrain.” Love, Knowledge and the University: Essays and Poetry from the Christianity and Literature Study Group, Victoria, 2013, edited by John S. North, North Waterloo AP, 2014, pp. 215-22.

– – –.  “‘God in his blank spaces’: Quantum Theology in Tim Lilburn’s Names of God.” Canadian Literature, vol. 218, Autumn 2013, pp. 100-15.

– – –.  “The Sacramental Poetry of Susan McCaslin.” Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, and Reviews, vol. 67, Fall/Winter, 2010, pp. 104-15.

– – –, and Jean Horton, editors. Dry Water. By Robert J. C. Stead, U of Ottawa P, 2008.

– – –.   “Domestic Science in the Poetry of Alice Major.” Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews, vol. 56, Spring/Summer 2005, pp. 53-64.