Angus Reid is a PhD candidate in the Department of English. His dissertation project, "Landscape After Labour", addresses the uses of landscape in the work of the poets Fred Wah, Etel Adnan and Adrienne Rich. This project turns to landscape to understand the reconfigurations of race, class, and gender - and of political subjectivity more generally - after the social movements of the 1960s.
Angus' Hildebrand Fellowship will support archival research in Vancouver on Wah, a Chinese Canadian poet and former poet laureate of Canada. Grounded in Canadian leftist debates of the 1970s, and particularly in a Canadian Marxist feminist archive, this research seeks to understand Wah’s poetics as emerging from the pursuit of a Chinese Canadian working-class standpoint.
Angus holds a BA (Hons.) in English Literature from the University of British Columbia.
