Intersections of literature and place in the Toronto region
Imagining Toronto website

Imagining Toronto will be published by Mansfield Press in the fall of 2009.

GEOG 3300 3.0 Space Place and Scale (Fall 2009-10)
Course website | Course weblog

GEOG 4520 3.0 Research Design and Field Research (Fall 2009-10)
Course website

GEOG 4280 3.0 Imagining Toronto (Winter 2009-10)
Course website

GEOG 4900 3.0 Public Space (Winter 2009-10)
Course website coming soon

Literary geography, Toronto literature, cities, theories of space and place, phenomenology, environmental crisis, finitude, nature, and dwelling

Book

Harris, Amy Lavender, forthcoming fall 2009. Imagining Toronto. Toronto: Mansfield Press.

Book Chapters

Harris, Amy Lavender and Peter Fruchter, 2007. "Acts of Salvage". In GreenTOpia, ed. Jonny Dovercourt, Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcox. Toronto: Coach House Books. An excerpt of this essay appeared in Eye Weekly on 8 November 2007; click here to read.

Harris, Amy Lavender, 2006. Toronto's Tower of Babel. In The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto, ed. Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio, and Jonny Dovercourt. Toronto: Coach House. Pages 162-167.

Articles

Harris, Amy Lavender, 2009. "Suburban Gothic." Spacing, vol. 15, Summer-fall 2009.

Harris, Amy Lavender, 2009. "The Liminal City." Spacing, vol. 14, Spring-summer 2009.

Harris, Amy Lavender, 2008. "Going Native." Spacing, vol. 13, Fall-winter 2008.

Harris, Amy Lavender, 2008. "The Word Made Flesh." Spacing, vol. 12, Summer 2008.

Harris, Amy Lavender, 2008. "Fast Cars, Slow Lane."Spacing, Vol. 11, Spring 2008.

Harris, Amy Lavender, 2007. The New Torontonians. Eye Weekly, 13 December 2007.

Harris, Amy Lavender, 2007. "The Ecological City."Spacing, Vol. 10, Fall 2007.

Harris, Amy Lavender, "Imagining Toronto", forthcoming, 2008. Essay commissioned by Library & Archives Canada to appear in Canada: A Literary Tour.

Harris, Amy Lavender, 2007. "Six Cures for Literary Amnesia". Open Book magazine, Vol. 1, October 2007.

Harris, Amy Lavender, 2007. "Literary Legacies of Hurricane Hazel", Spacing, Vol. 9, Summer 2007.

Harris, Amy Lavender, 2007. "Writing the Book on Toronto", Toronto Star, 2 June 2007. Feature article.

Harris, Amy Lavender, 2007. Literary Intersections, Spacing. No. 8.

Harris, Amy Lavender, 2006. Imagining Toronto: Essential Reads, Spacing. No. 7: 51-53.

Ongoing: Contributing Editor with Spacing magazine.

Invited reader, Doors Open Toronto gala, Royal Ontario Museum, 22 May 2009.

Invited speaker, 4th Annual Osgoode Constitutional Roundtable. Title: "The Myth of the Multicultural City." 5-6 March 2009.

Speaker, Walk21 Toronto Community Conference, 1 March 2008. Title: "The Poetics of Walking", followed by a literary walking tour of Kensington Market. A preview of the walking tour aired on CBC Radio One's Here & Now program on 28 February 2008.

Moderator, This is Not a Reading Series Toronto launch of Chris Turner's The Geography of Hope, 18 February 2008.

Invited panelist, Beyond Bureaucracy [IPAC] conference, Toronto, 15-16 November 2007. Session title: "Creativity and Public space".

Speaker, Walk21 Conference, Toronto, 1-4 October 2007. Paper title: "Walking the Imagined City".

Invited public lecture (with poet, painter, and arts writer Gary Michael Dault), "The Imagined City", 31 May 2007, a featured event of the 2007 Toronto Festival of Architecture & Design. "The Imagined City" was featured on CBC Radio One's "Here & Now" program on 30 May 2007.

Invited keynote speaker at Think Tank / JUICE Dialogues, a design symposium at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), Toronto, 14-15 October 2006. Talk title: "Designing the Imagined City" (slides from this talk are available here)

Invited panelist, The Legacy of Joseph Wagenbach, Goethe-Institut Toronto, 20 September 2006. Talk title: "The City's Vanishing Narratives" (the text of this talk is available here)

Opening night speaker, Salon Voltaire, Toronto, 8 September 2006. Talk title: "Imagining Toronto: Facts, Figments, and the Fictional City".