She is the PI on the Poetry Okanagan Sound Archive (POSA) project, a digital archive of literary audio recordings originally made on reel-to-reel and cassette tape in the 1960s through 1980s. She is also working on a book project entitled Radical Pedagogy: Canadian Modernist Poets in the University; this research draws on archival documents, interviews, correspondence, and poetry in order to reconstruct and theorize modernist writers’ radical pedagogy in a transnational and interdisciplinary context. She was the co-director of the Textual Editing and Modernism in Canada (TEMiC) Summer Institutes at UBC Okanagan in 2013 and 2014. email: karis.shearer@ubc.ca | twitter: @how2speakpoetry