Bart Vautour is Assistant Professor of English at Dalhousie University. He is a scholar of Canadian literature, with a particular interest in the interplay between the history of transnational Canadian cultural production and its contemporary publics. He is co-editor, with Erin Wunker, Travis V. Mason, and Christl Verduyn, of "Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics". His is currently completing a monograph project, "The Deed Becomes the Word: Canadian Media and Writing on the Spanish Civil War".