Jane Malcolm joined the English Department at the Université de Montréal in April 2012. Her research interests include poetry and poetics, British, American, and European modernism, extra-literary modernism, the poetics of gender, the problem of difficulty, and the theory and practice of translation. Her work has appeared in Arizona Quarterly, VLAK, AModern, Lemon Hound, and Jacket2. A co-edited edition of Laura Riding's 1928 volume of criticism, Contemporaries and Snobs, was published by the University of Alabama's Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series in 2014. She is currently working on a book about gender ambivalence and modernist innovation in the work of H.D., Mina Loy, Laura Riding, and Gertrude Stein.

Books:

A Description of Acquaintance: The Letters of Laura Riding and Gertrude Stein 1927-1930, edited by Logan Esdale and Jane Malcolm. University of New Mexico Press, Recencies Series, 2023.

Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) by Laura Riding, edited by Laura Heffernan and Jane Malcolm. University of Alabama Press, Modern & Contemporary Poetics Series, Eds.Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazer, 2014.

Articles and chapters:

Amodern11: Body and/as Procedure. Special issue edited by Jane Malcolm and Sarah Dowling, October 2023 https://amodern.net/issues/amodern-11/

"Ono Optics: Toward a Theory of the Perfectly Unreadable." Amodern11: Body and/as Procedure, October 2023 https://amodern.net/article/ono-optics/

"Transfer and Estrangement: Gail Scott in Conversation with Jane Malcolm." Jacket2, February 2020. https://jacket2.org/interviews/transfer-and-estrangement

‘All Alone with English: Teaching Stein in a Multilingual Context.” Approaches to Teaching Gertrude Stein, Eds. Logan Esdale and Deborah Mix. Modern Language Association (MLA) Publications, New York: 184-190, 2018.

“You Can’t Evict an Idea: The Poetics of Occupy Wall Street.” With Charles Bernstein. In Pitch of Poetry by Charles Bernstein. University of Chicago Press: 13-28, 2016.

“‘the poem among us, between us, there’: Muriel Rukeyser’s Meta-Poetics and the Communal Soundscape. Amodern4:The Poetry Series, Eds. Jason Camlot and Darren Wershler, 2015. https://amodern.net/article/poem-among-us/

“Dysfunctional Families: On Alice Notley’s Doctor Williams’s Heiresses.” VLAK: Contemporary Poetics and the Arts, 2015.

"'We peer through various portals': A Review of Gail Scott's The Obituary. Jacket2, April 2013. https://jacket2.org/reviews/we-peer-through-various-portals

"'That breeding silence she': Laura Riding's Gendered Ethics and the Limits of the Word 'Woman.'" Arizona Quarterly, Volume 65, Number 3: 61-85, 2009.