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PUBLICATIONS
FICTION
Three Short Pieces Carte Blanche (2021)

BOOK REVIEWS
for Librairie Drawn & Quarterly
Staff Picks 2020: Rachel
Librarie Drawn & Quarterly (2020)

Mirror Mirror 3 has arrived! Librarie Drawn & Quarterly (2020) Staff Picks 2019: Rachel Librarie Drawn & Quarterly (2019)
Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House is out today, and it is EXCELLENT Librarie Drawn & Quarterly (2019)*
Rachel’s Unruly, Otherworldly, Fantastic Summer Reads Librarie Drawn & Quarterly (2019)Staff Picks 2018: Rachel Librarie Drawn & Quarterly (2018)

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CURATED READING LISTS
for Librairie Drawn & Quarterly
Comics to Read in the Dark: Post Family Dinner Edition Librarie Drawn & Quarterly (2019)
Comics to Read in the Park: Cute Queer Summer Crush Edition Librarie Drawn & Quarterly (2019)
Comics to Read in the Park: Montreal Artists Edition Librarie Drawn & Quarterly (2019)
Comics to Read in the Park...When you’d rather be at the beach! Librarie Drawn & Quarterly (2019)
5 Hidden Gems: Rachel Librarie Drawn & Quarterly (2019)

Have a Look: Colourful Graphic Novels Librarie Drawn & Quarterly (2018)

for a complete list of reading lists & writing for the Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Blog, click here

SPEAKING
Can’t Even Book Launch: In Conversation with Anne Helen Petersen (interlocutor, invited).
Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal (2020)
Unlikeable/Promiscuous (reading, invited). Montreal (2018)
Temporary Microtheories for Everyday Uncertainties (workshop, invited).
The Togethering Lab. Montreal (2017)
Posing Problems, Posing Selves (workshop). Philopolis Montreal. Montreal (2016)                       Posing Problems (workshop).Philopolis Guelph. Guelph (2015)
Reading (original poems) – Stratastrophe. Guelph (2014)

EVENTS
Graphic Novel Book Club: Dancing After Ten (Georgia Webber) (facilitator). Librairie Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal (2020)
New Reads Book Club: How to Pronounce Knife (Souvankham Thammavongsa) (facilitator). Librairie Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal (2020)
True Reads Book Club: The Brown Album (Porochista Khakpour) (facilitator). Librairie Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal (2019)
New Reads Book Club: Home Remedies (Xuan Juliana Wang) (facilitator). Librairie Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal (2019)
Graphic Novel Book Club: The Lie and How We Told It (Tommi Parrish) (facilitator). Librairie Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal (2019)


PERFORMANCE
Somatexts (six week workshop, facilitator) 
Montreal (2018)
Delivery – with Matisse Apsimon-Megens (durational performance, invited). Bodies in Dark Times; curated by Quimeras. Fonderie Darling. Montreal (2017)
Bookbinding Workshop – CAFKA. Kitchener (2016)
Crepuscule Guelph (dance performance with Imageo Artworks). Guelph (2016)
Ask a Philosopher (installation). Philosophy in the Expanded Field; curated by Jeannette Hicks. Philopolis Guelph. Guelph (2015)

INTERVIEWS
Talking Zavitz: The Special Special (interviewed by Will Wellington). The Ontarion (2014). 

EDUCATION
MA in Philosophy, Concordia University. Montreal (January 2019)
BAH in Philosophy, with distinction, University of Guelph. Guelph (June 2015)

ADDITONAL TRAINING
  • The Art of Literary Translation (workshop). Jonathan Kaplansky. QWF, Montreal (2023)
  • Popular Writing for Academics (workshop). Colleen Kimmet. Sur Place, Montreal (2021)
  • Promiscuous Forms (writing workshop). Kasia Juno. Sur Place, Montreal (2018)

  • Feeling Dancing. Kelly Keenan. Studio 303, Montreal (2018)
  • Franklin Technique (workshop). Katie Ward. Montreal (2018)

  • Body Flossing (classes). Kelly Keenan. Studio 303, Montreal (2017-18)

  • Somatics (Concordia University). Angelique Wilkie. Montreal (2017-18)

  • Six Viewpoints (workshop). Mary Overlie, Impulztanz. Vienna (2017)
  • Storytelling and Scene Writing. Tina Satter. Studio 303 Queer Performance Camp. Montreal (2017)
  • Durational Performance (Queer Performance Camp workshop). Dayna McLeod. Studio 303 Queer Performance Camp, Montreal (2017)

  • Skinner Releasing Technique. Eryn Dace Trudell. Studio 303, Montreal (2017)

  • Contemporary Dance (classes). Kate Ramsden. Montreal (2016-17)

  • Butoh (workshop). Yesenia Fuentes. Montreal (2016)

  • Modern Dance and Improvisation. Georgia Simms. Guelph (2015-16)

  • Digital Audio Production (workshop). Chantal Dumas, Studio XX. Montreal (2017)

EDITING & DESIGN
Web Design: The Hildegard Von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions (2021-2023)
Managing Editor: GNOSIS (Graduate Philosophy Journal). Montreal (2016-17)
Production Coordinator: ReMediate by Anna Bowen and Christina Kingsbury with essays by Karen Houle and Dawn Owen [catalog and poetry]. PS Guelph (2016)
Co-Editor and Production Assistant: The Ecstasy and the Void by Soren Brothers [art book]. PS Guelph (2015)
Editorial Assistant and Production Assistant: Mapping the Ward by Janet Morton and Annie Dunning [art book]. PS Guelph (2015)
Editorial Assistant and Production Assistant: Warehouse Zone by Zane Koss [chapbook; poetry]. PS Guelph (2015)
Editorial Assistant: Roe by Candace De Taeye [book; poetry]. PS Guelph (2015)          
Co-Editor in Chief: Kaleidoscope: Undergraduate Journal of Visual and Literary Arts Vol. 2. Guelph (2013)

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
SSHRC, Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship–Master’s. Montreal (2016)
Dean of Arts and Science Award of Excellence, Concordia University. Montreal (2016)
Faculty of Arts and Science Graduate Fellowship, Concordia University. Montreal (2016)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship–Master’s. Guelph (2016 – Declined)
Kip Hunter Prize, Philosophy Dept, University of Guelph. Guelph (2015)
Entrance Scholarship, University of King’s College. Halifax (2010)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Quebec Writers’ Federation, General Member
American Literary Translator’s Association, Member (Friend)
Sur Place Media, Board Member (2020-2022)


Note: Reduced productivity 2020-2022 due to illness.
©Rachel Wallace 2023