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Drew McEwan
Tanis Doe Post-Doctoral Fellow in Gender, Disability, and Social Justice
OfficeSHE-576, Sally Horsfall Eaton Centre for Studies in Community Health
Dr. Drew McEwan researches and writes on literary and cultural representations of mental disability, madness, and neurodivergence. She has published academic writing in the edited collections Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health and Imaginary Safe House. She is also a writer with two published poetry collections: Repeater (shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award) and If Pressed, and the forthcoming Tours, Variously (2024). She has also published numerous literary chapbooks including Conditional, Can't tell if this book is depressing or if I'm just sad, Theory of Rooms, and Recoveringly (forthcoming 2023).
- Madness studies
- Critical disability studies
- Literary avant-gardism
- Canadian literature
- American literature
- Queer theory
- Rhetoric
- Poetics
Chapters:
- (2019) Toward a Poetics of Stuckness: Poetry, Mental Disability, and Crisis. Imaginary Safe House. Frog’s Hollow Press.
- (2018) Seeing Words, Hearing Voices: Hannah Weiner, Dora García, and the Poetic Performance of Radical Dis/humanism. Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health (external link) . Palgrave MacMillan.
Articles:
- (2021) Beyond ‘wellness’: How Bell Let’s Talk limits our understanding of mental illness. (external link) Rabble.ca.
Poetry:
- (forthcoming 2024) Tours, Variously. Talon Books.
- (forthcoming 2023) Recoveringly. The Blasted Tree
- (2017) If Pressed. Book*hug.
- (2012) Repeater. Book*hug.