Areas of interest
Clint Burnham's research interests include cultural studies (especially film and popular culture), contemporary poetry, and theory (especially psychoanalysis and Marxism).
Education
- BA, MA (Victoria)
- PhD (York)
Biography
Clint Burnham was born in Comox, British Columbia, which is on the unceded traditional territory of the K鈥櫭砿oks (Sahtloot) First Nation, centred historically on kwaniwsam. He lives and teaches on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including the Squamish (S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh 脷xwumixw), Tsleil-Waututh (s蓹l虛ilw虛蓹ta蕯涩), Musqueam (x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m), and Kwikwetlem (k史ik史蓹茮虛蓹m) Nations.
He has published widely on climate change and environmentalism, psychoanalysis and Marxism, contemporary literature and popular culture. His most recent books include, in 2018, Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? Slavoj 沤i啪ek and Digital Culture (Bloomsbury), Lacan and the Environment (co-edited with Paul Kingsbury, 2021), The Goldberg Variations (poetry, 2024), and, this year, (Routledge). The Naum Gabo Versions: New and Selected Poems 1997-2027 will be published in 2028 by the87press in the UK. In 2026 Burnham co-organized with Kingsbury a conference on Lacan and the University and they are collecting the contributions into book form; Burnham is also writing a memoir-study of the campus novel.
He guest-edited an issue of Some magazine (fall 2025), comprised of poetry criticism; poems have recently appeared in and . He co-edited Digital Natives (Other Sights, 2012) with Lorna Brown, From Text to Txting (Indiana) with Paul Budra, and an issue of Canadian Literature on 21st century poetics with Christine Stewart; he is the author of The Only Poetry that Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing (Arsenal Pulp). Recent essays have appeared in (eds. Sinan John-Richards and Thomas Waller, Bloomsbury Academic), (eds. Deanna Fong and Cole Mash, McGill-Queens), (and ), and (eds. Nicholas Brown, Maria Elisa Cevasco, Fabio Akcelrud Dur茫o, and Robert T. Tally, Duke).
Clint has been a member of the 51猎奇入口English department since 2007; before that he taught at UBC, Capilano College, and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. He has supervised doctoral students writing on photography and intimacy (Alison Dean) on sound archives (Deanna Fong), on theories of search (Alois Sieben), on poetry and humor (Scott Innis at UBC 鈥� co-supervised with Prof. Larissa Lai), on allegory and intoxication (Eva Graham 鈥� co-supervised with Prof. Carolyn Lesjak), on post-humanism (Ziwei Yan), and on psychoanalysis and Palestine (Rawia Inaim 鈥� co-supervised with Prof. Jon Smith). He is currently supervising dissertations on digital mediation (Jake McDonald) and queer psychoanalysis (Nicole Monaco). He is currently teaching undergraduate courses on Canadian Literatures and creative writing; in spring 2027 he is teaching a graduate course on autofiction and autotheory. Please note that Clint is not taking new PhD supervisions at this time.
Courses
Spring 2027
Future courses may be subject to change.