Dr. Paul Huebener

Books:

• Restless in Sleep Country: Imagination and the Cultural Politics of Sleep. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024.
• Nature’s Broken Clocks: Reimagining Time in the Face of the Environmental Crisis. University of Regina Press, 2020. Finalist for the Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize for the Environmental Humanities, the ASLE-UKI Book Prize for Ecological Creative Writing, and the Creative Saskatchewan Publishing Award.
• Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics of Time in Canadian Literary Culture. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. Finalist for the Gabrielle Roy Prize in Canadian literary criticism.

Co-edited books:

• Time and Globalization: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Reprint of the special issue of Globalizations on “Time and Globalization.” Edited by Paul Huebener, Susie O’Brien, Tony Porter, Liam Stockdale, and Yanqiu Rachel Zhou, Routledge, 2017.
• Time, Globalization and Human Experience. Edited by Paul Huebener, Susie O’Brien, Tony Porter, Liam Stockdale, and Yanqiu Rachel Zhou, Routledge, 2017.

Selected talks and interviews:

• Saskatchewan Festival of Words, 13-16 July 2023, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. One reading is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZyeQgCip8U.
• “Sleeping Hot: How the Humanities Can Approach Sleep on a Warming Planet.” Public lecture for the Sleep Salons event series hosted by The Sociability of Sleep research group. Online, 18 May 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY8Vno6VlMg
• “Sleep Through This Talk: Imagination and the Paradox of Sleep in a Restless World.” Public lecture for Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal. Online, 26 Jan. 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4AZzddnXYY.
• “Online Book Talk: Paul Huebener, Nature’s Broken Clocks.” The Greenhouse, 15 June 2020. https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/events/online-book-talk-paul-huebener-natures-broken-clocks/.

Selected refereed book chapter:

• “‘The clock’s wound up’: Critical Reading Practices in the Time of Social Acceleration and Ecological Collapse.” On Active Grounds: Agency and Time in the Environmental Humanities, edited by Robert Boschman and Mario Trono, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2019, pp. 33-55.

Selected refereed articles:

• “Stealing Sleep: Expanding the Conversation on the Literary Politics of Sleep and Insomnia.” English Studies in Canada, vol. 44, no. 3, 2018 [published in 2021], pp. 67-89, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/783656.
• “Timely Ecocriticism: Reading Time Critically in the Environmental Humanities.” Environmental Literatures and Politics in Canada, special issue of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, edited by Catriona Sandilands, vol. 25, no. 2, 2018, pp. 327-44, https://academic.oup.com/isle/article/25/2/327/5052175.
• Edited with, and introduction written with, Susie O’Brien, Tony Porter, Liam Stockdale, and Y. Rachel Zhou. “Reworking Resilience.” IGHC Working Paper Series, McMaster University, vol. 17, no. 1, 2017, https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/globalization/news/ighc-working-paper-series-17-1-reworking-resilience.
• “Subjective Time and the Challenge of Social Synchronization: Gabrielle Roy’s The Road Past Altamont and Catherine Bush’s Minus Time.” Canadian Literature, no. 223, 2014, pp. 32-48, https://canlit.ca/article/subjective-time-and-the-challenge-of-social-synchronization-gabrielle-roys-the-road-past-alamont-and-catherine-bushs-minus-time/.
• Edited with, and introduction written with, Susie O’Brien, Tony Porter, Liam Stockdale, and Y. Rachel Zhou. “An Interdisciplinary Forum on Time and Globalization.” IGHC Working Paper Series, McMaster University, vol. 12, no. 3, 2012, https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/handle/11375/28133.
• “Thoughts on Time-Based Readings of Canadian Literature and Culture.” English Studies in Canada, vol. 36, no. 2-3, 2010, pp. 141-64, https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/esc/article/view/9831.
• “Dark Stories: Poet-Audience Relations and the Journey Underground in Margaret Atwood’s The Door and Other Works.” Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 34, no. 2, 2009, pp. 106-33, https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/12704. Winner, Margaret Atwood Society Award for Best Article Published in a Scholarly Journal or Anthology, 2010.

Selected journal issue introduction:

• With Amanda Di Battista. “Responding to a Racist Climate.” The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada, vol. 16, no. 1, 2017, https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol16/iss1/36.

Selected non-refereed articles:

• “Time as Power: Climate Crisis and COVID-19 Require us to Reimagine Time.” ASLE: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, 13 July 2020, https://www.asle.org/features/time-as-power-climate-crisis-and-covid-19-require-us-to-reimagine-time/.