Glenn Willmott, Queen's University

Research

Read how they describe their research on their Queen's University profile.

Modernist avant-garde literature arts and culture ecocriticism and animal studies comic strips and graphic novels science fiction crime romance and other modern pulp genres Hollywood new media reading empathy and affect

Latest funding

Making common causes: crises, conflict, creation, conversation - 2016 Conference of the Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
$17,647
Wonder machines: the purposes of modern literature
SSHRC · 2011 · Principal investigator
$40,850
After the waste land: literature of Scarcity, 1890 to the present
SSHRC · 2008 · Principal investigator
$66,907

All 6 grants and awards

No publications available.

Making common causes: crises, conflict, creation, conversation - 2016 Conference of the Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Wallace, Molly

Keywords: academic conferences; environmental humanities; literary studies; environmental studies

$17,647

Wonder machines: the purposes of modern literature

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Willmott, Glenn A.

Keywords: literature; modernity; ethics

$40,850

After the waste land: literature of Scarcity, 1890 to the present

Principal investigatorSSHRC2008Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Willmott, Glenn A.

Keywords: literature; graphic narrative; popular media; economic scarcity; animal representation; posthuman representation

$66,907

Editing modernism in Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2007Strategic Knowledge Clusters

Principal investigators: Irvine, Dean J.

Keywords: Canadian literature; editing; textual criticism; publishing; electronic texts; hypermedia; cultural history; experiential learning; literary modernism

$2,100,000

Aboriginal appropriations: modernism and the arts of memory in English-Canadian literature

Principal investigatorSSHRC2003Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Willmott, Glenn A.

Keywords: 20th century Canadian literature; representations of indigeneous peoples and heritage; modernity theory

$54,096

Canadian modernity and modernism in novels in English, 1900 to 1950

Principal investigatorSSHRC1997Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Willmott, Glenn

Keywords: English-Canadian literature; fiction; novel; modernism

$8,519

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Modernist avant-garde literature Dear Professor Willmott, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on modernist avant-garde literature connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]