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Michelle Lobkowicz
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Acquisitions Editor @ualbertapress.bsky.social‬. (she/her/they)
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Ra-Mona Lisa.

Proud of my kid for making most of this costume herself
Happy Halloween!
Photograph of a girl dressed in a long black dress with a picture frame around her head as if she is a live portrait of the Mona Lisa.
October 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Happy to attend the U of Alberta’s Augustana campus fall faculty book launch, which features Frank Farley and the Birds of Alberta. Congratulations Glen, Jeremy, and Heather!
Photograph of the book cover for Frank Farley and the Birds of Alberta. Image of a projector featuring three book covers that are part of the Fall Faculty Book Launch at the U of Alberta’s Augustana campus on October 28th Photograph of a standing banner featuring Frank Farley.
October 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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House of Style.
Apartment sign that reads Citation Style, No Vacancy. There is a city road in the background.
September 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Hot of the press and releasing shortly. @arnabdr.bsky.social it is beautiful! Featuring stunning artwork by Rakajoo, Face à toi, 2021.
Book cover for The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions.
September 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Grateful to be attending the 2025 PPSA & IRW meetings at the Banff Centre, located on the side of Sacred Buffalo Mountain, in the Banff area known as as Minhrpa (translated in Stoney Nakoda as “the waterfalls”), Treaty 7 territory.
Photograph: two tables with books displayed. The runners on each table read University of Alberta Press.
September 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Congrats to Tyler McCreary, @matbuntin.bsky.social, Kay Rollans, Michel Vrana, and everyone at @ualbertapress.bsky.social for this recognition from the Book Publishers Association of Alberta. Great stuff!

Check out the book here: ualbertapress.ca/978177212704...
Image of the Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities book cover winning the Scholarly and Academic Book of the Year, published by University of Alberta Press.
September 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Wonderful new book out in the world. Congratulations @snowhydro.bsky.social !
Book cover for Sarah Boon’s Meltdowb: the making and breaking of a field scientist. Two maps from the book: on the left a map showing locations in Nunavut and on the right, a map of John Evans glacier. Opener for Chapter Four: Twenty-Four Hour Daylight. On the left page are two photographs, one of Sarah as a young grad student and one of a helicopter. The back cover of the book.
June 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Thanks to everyone who stopped by the @ualbertapress.bsky.social press booth at #congressh Hoping it’s not the last one as we publishers really value connecting with authors and scholars. #books
June 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Albertans have a distorted view of Albertans; or, how do we reconcile AB’s moderate-progressive tendencies with the persistent deployment of “Wild West” imagery?
@jaredwesley.ca presenting his team’s research on Average Joe. #congressh
June 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Wonderful Author Meets Critics panel at CPSA yesterday. Congratulations to Sharmin Sadequee and all the contributors on the publication of Secularism, Race, and the Politics of Islamophobia. #congressh
June 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Thanks to the CPSA’s Reconciliation Committee for asking Ghada Ageel to deliver her powerful keynote at #congressh “Palestinian Experiences of Genocide and Scholasticide in Gaza.” Here’s a glimpse of the series she co-edits, Women’s Voices From Gaza.
June 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Dawn Macdonald, winner of the First Canadian Book Prize, on stage with Anne Michaels. Amazing night at the Griffin Poetry Prize!! Congratulations to everyone nominated, and to the big winners Durs Grünbein and Karen Leeder!
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June 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Thanks to Laura Davis for stopping by the booth yesterday. If you are attending #congressh be just to come by the Waterfront Campus and say hello!
June 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Erín Moure giving the fantastic plenary at ACCUTE yesterday, titled “The poem is a language-place where thinking trembles / vibrates: Reflections on language, translation, and reading. #congressh
Erin Moure standing at a podium, reading from a book.
May 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Hot off the press & out in the world very soon…

Harley Parker: The McLuhan of the Museum
By Gary Genosko

The first book about the life and work of Parker, Canadian museum exhibition designer, painter, typographer, & friend and collaborator of Marshall McLuhan.

ualbertapress.ca/978177212793...
Book cover for Harley Parker: The McLuhan of the Museum by Gary Genosko featuring a portrait of Parker by Yousuf Karsh. The portrait shows Parker in side profile and is in black and white. Inside title page of the book Harley Parker: The McLuhan of the Museum by Gary Genosko featuring a photograph of Parker seated in the Palaeontology Gallery, Hall of Fossils at the Royal Ontario Museum, April 1967. Parker is seated on a bench in the foreground of the image and various displays of fossils are in the background.
May 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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New Book available now!

Secularism, Race, and the Politics of Islamophobia
Edited by Sharmin Sadequee

Shows the ways secularism produces and enables racism and normalizes the racial categorization of “Muslim.”

Congrats to Sharmin and all the contributors! Contributors & Blurbs ⬇️
May 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Poetry! Thanks to everyone who came to Literary Editions this evening! Congrats to Omar, Lisa, and Shannon on such wonderful collections, and to Aaron for being a masterful host.
#EdmPoetryFest
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Computer screen showing four readers on Zoom.
April 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Congratulations @orphdc.bsky.social on a powerful collection! Love these #poems especially: "Dogs Myth-Make the Desert", “Basha Sparrows”, “We Stop to Imagine a Skyline Without the Fire Stack”, "Cloud Seeding the Empty Quarter", "Origin Myths or A Poem for Survivor’s Guilt—Cut Up" + more! Blurbs⬇️
Cover of poetry collection entitled Sweet Rupture by Omar Ramadan. The cover art is an abstract painting reminiscent of a group of apricots. The colours are bright orange and yellow against a background of navy.
April 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Wonderful & eclectic #poetry in Lisa Baird's When Whales Went Back to the Water - the title poem, the poems "That Wanted to Be...", “Explanation”, “In Defence of Purple”, “If You Sing It Slowly Enough”, “Field Guide”, "On Day 22 I Learn My Little Brother Has Covid", & more! Congrats Lisa! Blurbs⬇️
Cover of poetry collection by Lisa Baird entitled When Whales Went Back to the Water. The image is of a painted white half-moon against a green background. The trees in the foreground are constructed of green acrylic paint and seem three-dimensional.
April 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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There are some absolutely breathtaking sequences in this collection, including "The Same Yellow Tiled Walls" and "Fallen Horseman." I also really love “Hand in Hand, We Brought Back the Ground” and "Windless Sea" - chills! Congrats Shannon on this powerful collection. (blurbs below)⬇️
#poetry
Cover of poetry collection entitled Python Love by Shannon Arntfield. Cover features abstract artwork, red swirling lines against a purple backdrop.
April 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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David A. Robertson giving this year’s CLC Kreisel Lecture! What a wonderful talk and evening. Thank you Sarah and the whole CLC team!
Author David A. Robertson stands at a wooden podium, speaking into a microphone. He is wearing black Chuck Taylors, jeans, and a green ‘shaket’ (shirt jacket) that is open over a black T-shirt. There is a flower arrangement in front of the podium.
March 13, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Happening next week! Wed March 12th 7:30 pm Timms Centre for the Arts, U of Alberta campus. Author David Robertson on writing as social activism.
Photograph of an event poster featuring head shot of David Robertson along with event details: Wednesday March 12 7:30 pm lecture is taking place at Timms Centre for the Arts, $15 general $5 students
March 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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NEW!
Digital Memory Agents in Canada moves from discourses on place to focus on the digital or virtual space and on how certain cultures, subjectivities, or positionalities use digital media to document or represent their recollections.
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December 20, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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New book!
Living and Learning with Feminist Ethics, Literature, and Art, edited by Dominique Hétu, Libe García Zarranz, Amanda Fayant, and Marie Carrière.

It was such a pleasure working on this creative and thought-provoking project.
ualbertapress.ca/978177212771...

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December 20, 2024 at 4:24 PM