Kelly Baron

Kelly Baron is interested in contemporary Canadian literature and topics in critical theory. Her dissertation considers the role of intergenerational memory in articulating collective trauma through Canadian women's writing. She is the publisher of The Ex-Puritan (formerly the Puritan Literary Magazine).

List of Publications

Articles and Book Chapters (peer-reviewed)

“Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and the impossibility of testimony.” In Comics and Catharsis: Exploring Narratives of Trauma and Memory in the Graphic Novel. Ed. Jordan Tronsgard. University of Mississippi Press. Forthcoming 2024. 

“Aural Memory in Madeleine Thien’s Do Not Say We Have Nothing.” English Studies in Canada 46.2: New Sonic Approaches in Literary Studies. Eds. Jason Camlot and Katherine McLeod. Forthcoming 2023. 

“Modern Love: Negative Affect in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood and André Breton’s Nadja.” Modern Language Studies 52.2: 34-49, 2023. 

“But How, How to Exist and Not to Belong?”: Hybridity and Trauma in Rawi Hage’s Cockroach.” Studies in Canadian Literature | Études en Littérature Canadienne 47.1: 131-149, 2022. 

“Rewriting Indigeneity in the Canadian Gothic: Monsters, Mash-Up, and Monkey Beach.” In Gothic Mash-Ups: Hybridity, Appropriation and Intertextuality in Gothic Storytelling. Ed. Natalie Neill. Lexington Books: 139-152, 2022. 

“Reflections on the testimony of trauma: Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and Sergio González Rodríguez’s Huesos en el Desierto.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 30.1: 107-121, 2021. 

“Coleman Silk and the collective trauma of America.” Philip Roth Studies 15.2: 66-83, 2019. 

Book Reviews

“Portraits of Lost Pasts.” Omnibus Review of The Lost Century and What is Written on the Tongue. Canadian Literature. Forthcoming 2023. 

“Three Failures.” Omnibus Review of The Music Game, The Beautiful Place, and Choosing Eleonore. Canadian Literature. 2023. 

“Mistaken Identity: Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Latest.” A review of Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fayne. Literary Review of Canada. Jan/Feb 2023. 

“Talk Diversity to Me: On Cynicism and Sincerity.” A review of Tajja Isen’s Some of My Best Friends and Naben Ruthnum’s A Hero of Our Time. Literary Review of Canada, June 2022. 

“Stories to Live By.” Omnibus Review of You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked., Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, and Treadmill: A Novel.” Canadian Literature. 2022. 

“Women’s Time.” Omnibus review of We, Jane, Erase and Rewind, and We Want What We Want.” Canadian Literature. 2022. 

“Paddling Alone, Together.” Review of Chronicling the Days: Dispatches from a Pandemic.” Canadian Literature. 2022.