The Wilderness Sublime in the Landscape Art of Canada | Guest Lecture by Prof. Jonathan Bordo (Trent University, ON) | Nov 11

Prof. Dr. Jonathan Bordo
Cultural Studies Department, Trent University, ON

The Wilderness Sublime in the Landscape Art of Canada

International Guest Lecture for Issues in North American Literature: Nature and Technology.
Nov 11, 6:30pm, Room W48.004

Jonathan Bordo (Ph.D., M.Phil., M.A. Yale) is Professor of Cultural Studies and former director of the Cultural Studies Ph.D. Program at Trent University, Ontario. He has published widely in the areas of cultural theory, the arts and literature with a particular emphasis on landscape, art, imitation and locales of memory. He has held prestigious fellowships at humanities centers and research libraries including Clare Hall Cambridge University, The John Carter Brown Library, The Chicago Institute for the Humanities, and the Australian National University. He is the co-editor of Place Matters: Critical Topographies in Word and Image (McGill Queen’s UP 2022, with Blake Fitzpatrick) and presently completing a monograph entitled Canada, The Proper Name of the Wilderness from which this lecture has been drawn. His published works at the nexus of art history, iconology, word and image, and film and media studies with a specific focus on Canadian landscape painting include: 

• “Wilderness as Symbolic Form: Thoreau, Grünewald and the Group of Seven,” in Pascale Guibert, ed., Reflective Landscapes of the Anglophone Countries (Brill 2011), 147-171.    
• “Picture and Witness at the Site of the Wilderness,” Critical Inquiry 26.2 (2000): 224-247.
• “The Terra Nullius of Wilderness: Colonialist Landscape Art (Australia and Canada) and the So-called Claim to American Exception,” International Journal of Canadian Studies 15 (1997): 13-36. 
• “The Jack Pine Wilderness Sublime or the Erasure of Aboriginal Presence from the Landscape,” Journal of Canadian Studies 2.7 (1994): 98-128.