Paul Huebener (he/him) is a professor of English. His research focuses on critical sleep studies, critical time studies, and the environmental humanities, particularly in the context of literatures in Canada.
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.
“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.
“‘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. “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.
“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.