The Canadian Modernist Magazines Project (CMMP) will be a digital repository of modernist periodical literature published in Canada (ca. 1900-1960). The project’s primary aim is to digitize and transcribe a selection of Canadian literary “little magazines” so that they can be read, searched, downloaded, analyzed, and taught. As a repository of Canadian modernist periodicals, the CMMP will make important but …
Googly Poetry
This experimental, just-for-fun side project was created to test and showcase Google Translate‘s poetic abilities. The basic idea is simple: take a poem written in English, translate it into other languages, then translate it back into English and see what it looks like. The resulting poems are often silly or nonsensical, but they are sometimes surprisingly profound. Sort of.…
Dissertation
Canadian Modernist Poetry and the Rise of Personal Religions
Recipient of 2018 Dalhousie Doctoral Thesis Award and the Malcolm Ross Thesis Award; nominated for Canadian Association for Graduate Studies/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award (results pending).
My dissertation, “Canadian Modernist Poetry and the Rise of Personal Religions,” examined the influence of what William James calls “personal religion” in relation to the mid-twentieth-century …
Media Manifesto
Media Manifesto is a web design and development company. Originally founded in Alberta in 2001 by Graham Jensen, it was sold in 2011 to an investor in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. During those first ten years, Graham served over fifty clients in Canada and the United States.
Technical skills/typical work required:
- HTML, CSS, Javascript
- Basic PHP script customization
- Custom web design and