Professor Dr. Smaro Kamboureli

Biography

Smaro Kamboureli specializes in contemporary Canadian literature criticism. Before joining the University of Toronto, she taught in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph where she held the Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Critical Studies in Canadian Literature. Her research project included founding and directing the TransCanada Institute, organizing international interdisciplinary TransCanada conferences, and initiating collaborative research methodologies. Following her time at Guelph, Kamboureli taught at the University of Victoria where she served as Director of the English graduate program and as the first Associate Dean Research in the Humanities. She has received various research grants and her work has been translated into multiple languages. Kamboureli has published extensively, with notable works including "Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada," which received the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Criticism. Her recent academic activities include editing volumes related to Canadian literary studies and exploring the intersections of diasporic Indigenous literatures in Canada. Kamboureli's critical writings often examine the complexities of multiculturalism in Canadian literature through various scholarly lenses.

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