Decorative image of three of Emilia's books: Body Work, Surge Narrows and Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives

Emilia Nielsen

Writer, Professor, Poet

Journal Publications

Chronic Illness, Critical Disability Studies & Poetics:

2021 “Chronic Poetics and the Poetry of Chronic Illness (in a Global Pandemic) [PDF].” Canadian Literature. Special Issue: Pandemics. 245: 48-64. Print.

2019 “Transforming Disabling Trauma through Care Work and Collective Affinity: Mental Disability and ‘a Shared Queerness’ in Cereus Blooms at Night [PDF].” Studies in Canadian Literature. 44.1: 181-197. Print.

2016 “Chronically Ill, Critically Crip?: Poetry, Poetics and Dissonant Disabilities.” Disability Studies Quarterly. 36.4: n. pag. Web.

Breast Cancer, Cultural Politics & Affect:

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2019 “The Problem of Standardized Breast Cancer Narratives.” Special Feature: Medicine & Society / Humanities | Encounters. CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. 191.47: E1311-12. Online.

Cover image of issue 48.1 of Mosaic: The Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature.

2015 “Queering Breast Cancer’s Affective Narratives: The Summer of Her Baldness and The L Word [PDF].” Special Issue: Queer/Affect. Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. 48.1: 49-64. Print.

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2014 “Counternarratives of Breast Cancer and Chronic Illness: Performing Disruption, Patienthood and Narrative Repair [PDF].” Special Issue: On Medicine. Performance Research. 19.4: 97-106. Print.

Selected Long Poems in Scholarly Journals:

2020 “From Mill Creek Ravine Fieldwork: Voicing Prohibited Noxious and Noxious Weeds.” The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada. Special Issue: Miscellany. 18.2: n. pag. Online. (4 pages)

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2016 “Vernacular Hearts.” Reprint. Feral Feminisms. Special Issue: Feral Theory. Toronto. 6: n. pag. Online. (4 pages)

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2009 “Dermographia: (Desire).” English Studies in Canada. Special Issue: Skin. Edmonton: University of Alberta. ACCUTE. 34.1: 143-148. Print. (6 pages)

Selected Long Poems in Literary Journals:

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“Sensorial.” Plenitude [PDF]. Victoria. 1 (2012): 24-26.

Cover image of issue 31.1 of Room Magazine

“Pass Creek.” Room Magazine. Vancouver. 31.1 (2008): 50-61.

Cover image of issue 46.2 of Prism International.

“Surge Narrows.” Prism international. Vancouver: University of British Columbia. 46:2 (2008): 55-58.

Cover image of issue 234 of Fiddlehead

“Vernacular Hearts.” The Fiddlehead. Fredericton: University of New Brunswick. 234 (2008): 59-62.

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“Disquiet.” Qwerty. Fredericton: University of New Brunswick. 21 (2007): 9-12.

Cover image of issue 45.1 of Prism International

“Indifferent Season.” Prism international. Vancouver: University of British Columbia. 45:1 (2006): 22-27.