Myra Bloom specializes in modern and contemporary Canadian/Québécois literature. Her current research is focused on women's confessional writing and intercultural relations in Québecois fiction. She recently guest-edited a double issue of English Studies in Canada on the topic of autofiction. She is currently working on a manuscript on confessional Canadian women's writing, Evasive Maneuvers, and is the principal investigator on a SSHRC Insight Development Grant that will study how living Canadian writers incorporate self-disclosure in their work.
Canadian/Quebecois literature
Confession
Women's writing
PhD -- Comparative Literature, U of Toronto
MA -- Comparative Literature, U of Toronto
BA (Hons.) -- U of King's College
Journal Articles
“Sources of the Self(ie): An Introduction to the Study of Autofiction in English.” English Studies in Canada 45. 1-2 (March/June 2019): 1-18.
"The Trope of the Translator: (Re)Writing history in Heather O'Neill's The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and Claire Holden Rothman's My October. Canadian Literature 233 ("Literary History," Summer 2017): 51-68.
“'At the End of Everything': Confession and Critique in Michel Tremblay's Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra.” ESC: English Studies in Canada 41.2-3 (2015): 43-64.
“'The Suitable Language of Love': Confessional Discourse in By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept.” Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne 39.2 (Spring 2015): 45-61.
“Paratactics: Marie-Claire Blais's Feminist Praxis in Soifs.” Québec Studies 52 (Fall 2011/Winter 2012): 123-136.
Book Chapters
"Messy Confessions: Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be?" Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries. Eds. Gregory Betts and Christian Bök. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2019: 173-196.
Other Publications
"Sometimes Baffling, Sometimes Subline: Sheila Heti's Pure Colour." The Walrus. May, 2022.
The Writers Leading the Nonfiction Revolution. (December 17, 2020)
"The Darker Side of Leonard Cohen." The Walrus (online). April 9, 2018
"Marie-Claire Blais." Critical Survery of American Literature. Ed. Steven Kellman. Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, 2016: 280-85.
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