Jennifer Baker

Jennifer Baker is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa. Her academic work intersects with creative practice, focusing on the georgic mode in Canadian literature, zoopoetics, and experimental approaches to ecopoetics and sound poetry.

Research Highlights:

• Analyzes the georgic tradition’s role in Canadian agricultural discourses
• Investigates how formal experimentation in poetry challenges human-animal binaries
• Engages with Anthropocene studies and environmental humanities

Awards & Recognition:

• Honourable Mention, Diana Brebner Poetry Prize (2022)

Editorial Roles:

• Poetry Editor and Editorial Board member, Arc Poetry Magazine (since 2023)

Creative Work: Author of three chapbooks – Abject Lessons (2014), Groundling (2021), and Memento Mishka (2023) – exploring themes of trauma transformation, accountability, and settler-colonial critique.