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Lucas Crawford is a Professor and Canada Research Chair of Transgender Creativity and Mental Health at the Augustana Faculty of the University of Alberta. His work spans a diverse range of fields including queer theory, transgender studies, histories of madness, and the public arts and humanities.
His research interests encompass queer theory, transgender studies, the histories and literatures of madness, popular culture, twentieth-century literature, histories of design and space, fat embodiment, disability, Jewish philosophy and history, and the public arts and humanities. His interdisciplinary work bridges creative writing and academic scholarship, often focusing on marginalized experiences and mental health through both theoretical and poetic forms.
Lucas Crawford has received several prestigious awards for his work:
- Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry for Sideshow Concessions (2015)
- J.M. Abraham Award for best poetry collection by an Atlantic Canadian author for Belated Bris of the Brainsick (2019)
- UC-Berkeley Arcus Foundation Award (2019)
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship (2007)
Lucas Crawford has secured significant grant funding, including a Canada Council for the Arts grant for his project 'Rewriting Ourselves: Poetry in the Psych Ward', and previously held a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship. He actively supervises graduate students and organizes community-academic initiatives that translate research into public practice.
He founded and directs the 'Rewriting Ourselves' project bringing poetry to psychiatric wards, and co-organizes VERS/E, Edmonton's monthly queer poetry night featuring open mics and free poetry broadsides, demonstrating his commitment to community-engaged scholarship.
