www.jonathanball.com


Undergraduate and Graduate Degrees

Ph.D. (English)
Creative Writing and Canadian Literature
University of Calgary, 2009
M.A. (English)
Creating Writing
University of Manitoba, 2005

B.A. (Advanced)
English major and Film Studies minor
University of Manitoba, 2002


Teaching and Research Interests

Writing, Experimental Literature and Film, Canadian Literature and Film, Horror, Humour, Publishing Technologies

Courses Taught

  • RHET-1105 (3) Academic Writing: Multidisciplinary (045)
  • ENGL-2102 (3) Introduction to Creative Writing (004)
Selected/Recent Publications

Poetry

 

Ex Machina. Toronto: BookThug, 2009.

Book Chapters: Criticism

 

“Everything a Winnipegger Could Ever Want: Jeff Solylo and East of Euclid.” PLACE: 13 Essays 13 Filmmakers 1 City. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Film Group, 2009. 114-21.

“Forgetting the Way Home: Memory in the Films of Guy Maddin.” The Prairies: Lost and Found. Ed. Len Kuffert. Winnipeg: St. John's College Press, 2007. 27-34.

Articles

 

“The Archive and the Future of the Novel.” The International Journal of the Book 6.2 (2009): 71-75. Web/Print.

 

“Blurring the Borders/Bordering the Blurs: bpNichol and derek beaulieu.” Open Letter 13.8 (2009): 92-100.

 

“Here Comes the Violence: Poetry, the Mass Media, and Damian Lopes's Sensory Deprivation.” Open Letter 13.6 (2008): 130-43.

“‘Is winter my country': Bowering's Kanada.” Jacket 28 (2005). 10 Oct. 2005. Web.

Short Films (as director)

 

Opening Band . Dir. Jonathan Ball. Story and Screenplay by Jonathan Ball and Phil McGreevy. Martian Embassy Films, 2007.

 

Spoony B. Dir. Jonathan Ball. Story and Screenplay by Jonathan Ball and Patrick Short. Winnipeg Film Group, 2005.

Interviews

 

“[Christian Bök:] Mutations of Immortality.” Harper's (Dec. 2009): 18-21.

 

“Christian Bök.” The Believer. 63 (June 2009): 59-66.