Clint Burnham

He has published widely on climate change and environmentalism, psychoanalysis and Marxism, contemporary literature and popular culture. His most recent books include, in 2018, Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture (Bloomsbury), Lacan and the Environment (co-edited with Paul Kingsbury, 2021), The Goldberg Variations (poetry, 2024), and, this year, Mari Ruti and Climate Change: From Grief to Creativity (Routledge). The Naum Gabo Versions: New and Selected Poems 1997-2027 will be published in 2028 by the87press in the UK. In 2026 Burnham co-organized with Kingsbury a conference on Lacan and the University and they are collecting the contributions into book form; Burnham is also writing a memoir-study of the campus novel.

He guest-edited an issue of Some magazine (fall 2025), comprised of poetry criticism; poems have recently appeared in almostisland and Poetry Runup. He co-edited Digital Natives (Other Sights, 2012) with Lorna Brown, From Text to Txting (Indiana) with Paul Budra, and an issue of Canadian Literature on 21st century poetics with Christine Stewart; he is the author of The Only Poetry that Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing (Arsenal Pulp). Recent essays have appeared in Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism (eds. Sinan John-Richards and Thomas Waller, Bloomsbury Academic), Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound (eds. Deanna Fong and Cole Mash, McGill-Queens), Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society CLCWeb (and again), and The Future of Totality: Fredric Jameson and the Prospects for Critical Theory (eds. Nicholas Brown, Maria Elisa Cevasco, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, and Robert T. Tally, Duke).

Clint has been a member of the SFU English department since 2007; before that he taught at UBC, Capilano College, and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. He has supervised doctoral students writing on photography and intimacy (Alison Dean) on sound archives (Deanna Fong), on theories of search (Alois Sieben), on poetry and humor (Scott Innis at UBC – co-supervised with Prof. Larissa Lai), on allegory and intoxication (Eva Graham – co-supervised with Prof. Carolyn Lesjak), on post-humanism (Ziwei Yan), and on psychoanalysis and Palestine (Rawia Inaim – co-supervised with Prof. Jon Smith). He is currently supervising dissertations on digital mediation (Jake McDonald) and queer psychoanalysis (Nicole Monaco). He is currently teaching undergraduate courses on Canadian Literatures and creative writing; in spring 2027 he is teaching a graduate course on autofiction and autotheory. Please note that Clint is not taking new PhD supervisions at this time.