Stephen Cain
Associate Professor
Undergraduate Program Director
Office: Atkinson College, 518
Phone: 416-736-2100 Ext: 33705
Email: englud@yorku.ca
Media Requests Welcome
Accepting New Graduate Students
Stephen Cain specializes in the field of cultural production including matters of book design distribution promotion and other paratextual issues as well as the culture of the small and micro presses in Canada.
Other fields include Avant-garde Movements, Poetry and Poetics, Modern and Contemporary Literature, and Canadian Literature in general. He is the editor of bp: beginnings (2014) a critical edition of the early long poems of bpNichol and, with Tim Conley, he has written The Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages (Greenwood, 2006). He was the editor of two special issues of Open Letter: "Breakthrough Nostalgia: Reading Steve McCaffery Then and Now" and "The Little Literary Serial in Canada (1980-2000)". Other academic articles have appeared in Studies in Canadian Literature, Open Letter, Canadian Literature, and as chapters in the books Sound As Sense (2003), The Canadian Modernists Meet (U of Ottawa, 2005), The State of the Arts: Living With Culture in Toronto (2006) and Antiphonies: Essays on Women’s Experimental Poetries in Canada (2008).
Degrees
PhD, York UniversityMA, York University
B.A. (Hon), Queen's University
Appointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesResearch Interests
Cain, S. and T. Conley. Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages. New York: Greenwood, 2006. 238 pages.
Cain, S. 2006: "Annexing a Space for Poetry in the New Toronto." The State of the Arts: Living With Culture in Toronto. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2006: 90-99.
Cain, S. 2005: "Mapping Raymond Souster's Toronto." The Canadian Modernists Meet. Ed. Dean Irvine. Ottawa: U of Ottawa P, 2005: 59-75.
Cain, S. 2003: "The Poetics of R. Murray Schafer." Sound as Sense: Contemporary US Poetry &/in Music. Eds. Michel Delville and Christine Pagnoulle. Brussels: P.I.E.-Peter Lang, 2003: 155-173.
Cain, S. 2006: Rev. of Nichol's Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer and Stuart Ross's Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer. In Canadian Literature 190 (2006): 162-163.
Cain, S. 2004: Rev. of Karen Mac Cormack's Implexures. In 1913: A Journal of Forms (U.S.) 1.1 (2004): 140-1.
Cain, S. 2002: "The Literary Serial in Canada, 1980-2000" Open Letter (11.6, 2002). 140 pages.
Cain, S. 2000: "Tracing the Web: House of Anansi's Spiderline Editions." Studies in Canadian Literature 25.1 (2000): 111-130.
Cain, S. 2007: "Kids of the Book Machinists: Innovative Small Press Books in the Wake of Nichol and McCaffery." Architecture of the Book Symposium. Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Corner Brook, NL. (Refereed)
Cain, S. 2006: "Order and Ethnicity in Andre Alexis's 'Michael' Trilogy." Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences: Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. York University. (Refereed)
Cain, S. "Modes of the Micropress" Open Letter 12.8 (2006): 132-142.
Cain, S. 2003: "Mapping Souster's Toronto." The Canadian Modernists Meet. University of Ottawa. (Refereed)
Cain, S. 2000: "Two in T.O.: The Canadian Publications of Allen Ginsberg and Charles Wright." The Opening of the Field: A Conference on North American Poetry in the 1960s. The National Poetry Foundation. University of Maine (Orono, ME). (Refereed)
Cain, S. 2006: Double Helix (with Jay Millar). Toronto: Mercury Press.
Cain, S. 2005: American Standard/ Canada Dry. Toronto: Coach House, 2005. Reprinted 2006. 2001: Torontology. Toronto: ECW, 2001.
Cain, S. 2001: Torontology. Toronto: ECW, 2001.
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2021 | AP/EN2130 3.0 | A | The Short Story | ONLN |
| Winter 2022 | GS/EN6743 3.0 | M | The International Avant-Garde (1896-1947 | SEMR |
Stephen Cain specializes in the field of cultural production including matters of book design distribution promotion and other paratextual issues as well as the culture of the small and micro presses in Canada.
Other fields include Avant-garde Movements, Poetry and Poetics, Modern and Contemporary Literature, and Canadian Literature in general. He is the editor of bp: beginnings (2014) a critical edition of the early long poems of bpNichol and, with Tim Conley, he has written The Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages (Greenwood, 2006). He was the editor of two special issues of Open Letter: "Breakthrough Nostalgia: Reading Steve McCaffery Then and Now" and "The Little Literary Serial in Canada (1980-2000)". Other academic articles have appeared in Studies in Canadian Literature, Open Letter, Canadian Literature, and as chapters in the books Sound As Sense (2003), The Canadian Modernists Meet (U of Ottawa, 2005), The State of the Arts: Living With Culture in Toronto (2006) and Antiphonies: Essays on Women’s Experimental Poetries in Canada (2008).
Degrees
PhD, York UniversityMA, York University
B.A. (Hon), Queen's University
Appointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesResearch Interests
All Publications
Cain, S. 2006: "Annexing a Space for Poetry in the New Toronto." The State of the Arts: Living With Culture in Toronto. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2006: 90-99.
Cain, S. 2005: "Mapping Raymond Souster's Toronto." The Canadian Modernists Meet. Ed. Dean Irvine. Ottawa: U of Ottawa P, 2005: 59-75.
Cain, S. 2003: "The Poetics of R. Murray Schafer." Sound as Sense: Contemporary US Poetry &/in Music. Eds. Michel Delville and Christine Pagnoulle. Brussels: P.I.E.-Peter Lang, 2003: 155-173.
Cain, S. 2006: Rev. of Nichol's Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer and Stuart Ross's Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer. In Canadian Literature 190 (2006): 162-163.
Cain, S. 2004: Rev. of Karen Mac Cormack's Implexures. In 1913: A Journal of Forms (U.S.) 1.1 (2004): 140-1.
Cain, S. and T. Conley. Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages. New York: Greenwood, 2006. 238 pages.
Cain, S. 2002: "The Literary Serial in Canada, 1980-2000" Open Letter (11.6, 2002). 140 pages.
Cain, S. 2000: "Tracing the Web: House of Anansi's Spiderline Editions." Studies in Canadian Literature 25.1 (2000): 111-130.
Cain, S. 2007: "Kids of the Book Machinists: Innovative Small Press Books in the Wake of Nichol and McCaffery." Architecture of the Book Symposium. Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Corner Brook, NL. (Refereed)
Cain, S. 2006: "Order and Ethnicity in Andre Alexis's 'Michael' Trilogy." Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences: Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. York University. (Refereed)
Cain, S. "Modes of the Micropress" Open Letter 12.8 (2006): 132-142.
Cain, S. 2003: "Mapping Souster's Toronto." The Canadian Modernists Meet. University of Ottawa. (Refereed)
Cain, S. 2000: "Two in T.O.: The Canadian Publications of Allen Ginsberg and Charles Wright." The Opening of the Field: A Conference on North American Poetry in the 1960s. The National Poetry Foundation. University of Maine (Orono, ME). (Refereed)
Cain, S. 2006: Double Helix (with Jay Millar). Toronto: Mercury Press.
Cain, S. 2005: American Standard/ Canada Dry. Toronto: Coach House, 2005. Reprinted 2006. 2001: Torontology. Toronto: ECW, 2001.
Cain, S. 2001: Torontology. Toronto: ECW, 2001.
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2021 | AP/EN2130 3.0 | A | The Short Story | ONLN |
| Winter 2022 | GS/EN6743 3.0 | M | The International Avant-Garde (1896-1947 | SEMR |
