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cameron.macdonald@mlc.ryerson.ca

Cameron MacDonald is a long-time member of the MLC Research Centre, having served as the MLC Coordinator, Member of the Executive Team, and RA lead for the MLC’s SSHRC funded project Telling COVID-19 Stories (2022-2026). He holds a BA in English from Toronto Metropolitan University (2012-2016), and an MA from the University of Toronto English Department, where he is now a PhD student (2021-2026). Supported by a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship (2022 - 2025), his doctoral research focuses on sonic phenomena in literature, such as echoes, silences, noise, and music, to explore alternative modes of being in the world. His work involves literary analysis, sound studies, and queer theory in relation to late 19th - mid 20th century American literature. Cameron is also a professional musician and creative writer. 

Scholarly Articles

Cecchetto, David and Cameron MacDonald. “Listening through a Pandemic: Silence, Noisemaking, and Music.” Creative Resilience and COVID-19: Figuring the Everyday in a Pandemic, edited by Irene Gammel and Jason Wang, Routledge, 2022, pp. 39-48.

Selected Conference Papers

MacDonald, Cameron. “Songs Along the Keyboard: Listening Around Frank O’Hara.” Modern Language Association (MLA), Washington, DC (online), 6-9 January 2022. Roundtable, Poetry and Sound: Beyond Voice, sponsored by GS Poetry and Poetics.

MacDonald, Cameron. “The Hum of Humor: Listening to Queer Laughter in Nella Larsen’s Passing.” Modern Language Association (MLA), Toronto (online), 7-10 January 2021. Panel, Laughter & Feminist Critical Thought, sponsored by MS Screen Arts and Culture.

MacDonald, Cameron. “‘And Finished knowing — then —’: Queer Time-Spaces and Ecologies of Death in Emily Dickinson’s Poetics.” (De)Composing Death: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax, 10-12 August 2018. Panel. 

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The Great War in Literature and Visual Culture

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The Great War in Literature and Visual Culture

Amid the unprecedented social change of World War I, women renegotiated their identities by dramatically changing the way they engaged with the arts. But how did they do so? And how did everyday citizens engage with the war?
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

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Modernism in the World

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Modernism in the World

Recent research has departed from the Euro-centric and national view of Modernism to include approaches and methods studying Modernism across national boundaries and across different art forms to include fashion, dance, performance, technology, and visual culture.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Canadian Modernism

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Canadian Modernism

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Modernist Biography and Life Writing

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Modernist Biography and Life Writing

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