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Alanna Frances Rose Bondar, PhD (1968-2014) was a well known eco-feminist poet and tenured professor at Algoma University. She was recognized by her academic peers as a cutting edge researcher and scholar in the emerging genre of literary eco-criticism; which revisions our connections within biotic communities. Bondar was the daughter of Aldona and Arthur Bondar.
Bondar received her Ph.D. in English from Memorial University of Newfoundland (2003); and her MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of New Brunswick, where her advisor was the Governor-General’s Award and Griffin Poetry Prize winning poet and writer, Dr. Don McKay. Her undergraduate degree was from Western University.
Bondar’s Ph. D. dissertation is entitled "Greening the green space: exploring the emergence of Canadian ecological literature through ecofeminist and ecocritical perspectives". Her areas of teaching included 20th century literature and critical theory; Canadian literature; American Literature; 20th Century Poetry; Magic(al) Realism; Gothic Literature and theory; Minority Writing; Women's Literature; Art and Text; Film and film theory; Creative Writing, and others. Each year Bondar’s students prepared the Algoma University’s only ongoing journal, Algoma Ink, from conception to finished product under her supervision.
In 2012, Bondar launched her first full length prose poetry monograph, "There are many ways to die while travelling in Peru" (Your Scrivener Press, 2011), before a full house at the Art Gallery of Algoma in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. She as a founding member of The Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC).
For her friends and colleagues, she hosted annual “Pisces Mardi Gras” and “Love Your Libra” parties, which knit the university community together more tightly.
Bondar always made extra efforts to welcome new colleagues to these gatherings and often invited newcomers to the north to her family’s cottage on Lake Huron. She has also performed with The Hinter Brane Project, an experimental jazz/spoken word group of faculty and former students. From this group, the current collaborative project, Threshold became possible and promises to be an intriguing walk through visual fields of art amongst sound-fields of spoken word, music, experimental music, and Lake Superior voices. An accomplished quilter, sewer, potter and swimmer, Alanna was also an ardent gardener and knitter. She was thrilled to be included in the Art Gallery’s garden tour in 2013.
Alanna passed away peacefully on Friday, August 8, 2014, in the company of her loved ones.
Following her death, the Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize for the Environmental Humanities and Creative Writing was established by The Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada / L’Association pour la literature, l’environment et la culture au Canada (ALECC). In honour of Alanna, a cash prize of $500 is adjudicated by an ALECC committee and awarded every two years at the ALECC biennial conference. In 2016 Algoma Unviersity dedicated a portion of its campus as the Piazza Alanna in honour of Dr. Alanna Bondar.
Fonds is comprised of material documenting Dr. Alanna Bondar's work as an eco-feminist poet and tenured professor at Algoma University.
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Series comprises materials collected and submitted by Alanna Bondar as part of the tenure and promotion process at Algoma University.
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R1.1. Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures, Ottawa Congress 2009 (accepted and postponed): "Holding hands, forming a new biotic circle, regionaltiy, community, and the geopsyche in Native and Non-Native ecological poetry."
R1.2 5th World Environmental Education Conference Montreal 2009: "Searching for the Canadian Thoreau: Environmental education and the Canadian Classroom."
R1.3. 5th World Environmental Education Conference Montreal 2009: "Re-nude reciprocity: IK, the geopsyche and teaching keys to responsible membership in biotic communities."
R1.4. Association for the Study of Literture and the Environement 2009 (Victoria) + Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada: "Housekeeping and keeping the feminine sacred: Kristjana Gunnars and the emerging ecological poetry of Canada."
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R1.1. Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures, Ottawa Congress 2009 (accepted and postponed): "Holding hands, forming a new biotic circle, regionaltiy, community, and the geopsyche in Native and Non-Native ecological poetry."
R1.2 5th World Environmental Education Conference Montreal 2009: "Searching for the Canadian Thoreau: Environmental education and the Canadian Classroom."
R1.3. 5th World Environmental Education Conference Montreal 2009: "Re-nude reciprocity: IK, the geopsyche and teaching keys to responsible membership in biotic communities."
R1.4. Association for the Study of Literture and the Environement 2009 (Victoria) + Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada: "Housekeeping and keeping the feminine sacred: Kristjana Gunnars and the emerging ecological poetry of Canada."
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R2.1. CFP Essays in Candian Literature (ESC) Call for proposals on "skin" 2008 (not accepted): "Fur-to-skin connections: the Ecopoetic practices of Canadian poets Erin Moore, Karen Connelly, Jane Munro, & Lorna Crozier." ;
R2.2 "Nature Matters" Conference - York University, October 2007 (Hosted by Cate Sandilands, Canadian Research Chair, Sustainability and Culture: "Checking the remembered body: and ecofeminist consideration of the body in global landscape in Camilla Gibb's Sweetness in the Belly
R2.3 International Poetic Ecologies Brussels 2008: "Be-me-at)ing and the Edened: Canadian ecofeminist poets exploring the jouissance of survival and satisfaction."
R2.4. International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, Morelia, Mexico, January 2008 (lack of funding prevented participation.)
R2.5. Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English 2005 (accepted but asked to choose between presenting this proposal or the Don McKay paper): "Bearing their b(r)easts: Exploring Ecocritical and Ecofeminist Perspectives in Canadian Animal Stories.
R2.6. Association for the Theatre Research 1996 -- Congress Montreal 1996 -- Presentation led to publication in Canadian Theatre Review: "Life doesn't seem natural:" Ecofeminism and the Reclaiming of the Feminine Spirit in Cindy Cowan's A Woman from the Sea.
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R3.1. CFP Anthology on Hunting and Philosophy, July 2009: "Canadian poet hunters: Reconciling what's 'natural', 'primal', and 'compassionate' with the inner 'intellectual' environmentalism."
R3.2. CFP Anthology on Hunting and Philosophy, July 2009: "Fur-to-skin: Decentring the myths of feminine extremes by finding the hunter within the hunted in Canadian poetry."
R3.3 Environmental Studies Association Canada 2007 (Congress Saskatoon): "The Fry(e)d, the rare, and the well-done: The Promising Miracle of Canadian Post-pastoral."
R3.4. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment 2005 (Eugene Oregon): "Pan-Fry(e) ing Nature: The promising Miracle of a Canadian Post-pastoral II."
R3.5. Association of a Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) 2005 (Publication of article in Canadian Poetry): "Mapping their language on each tiny roof": Exploring the 'geopsyche' of Don McKay's (eco)poetry."
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R4.1. CFP: "Performance in an ge of eco-crisis" for Canadian Theatre Review. "Pregnant(Sea) Miscarried : Ecofeminism and Michael Cook's Poetics of Denigration."
R5.1. Founding Conference for a Canadian Association of Creative Writing Teachers
R5.2. Association of Writers and Writing Programs (not accepted, compiled and composed by Karl Jirgens, University of Windsor): "Practical Bridges between Literary & Theory and Creative Writing Practice."
R5.3. Association of Writers and Writing Programs (not accepted, compiled and composed by Matthew Cooperman, University of Colorado): "The Art of Collaboration : Community, Interdisciplinarity and Conversation."
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Algoma University Research Fund: "Revisioning borderlands, frontiers and the North: Indigenous Knowledge and representations of the geopsyche in native and non-native ecological poetry of Northern Ontario."
Laurentian University Research Fund: "Exploring an emerging ecofeminist Canadian literature within the global community -- revisioning 'practical essentialism' through the geopsych."
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Appendix Tab 7 Contents note:
"Attending Guilt-Free Birdspeak and Treetalk: an Ecofeminist Reading of the 'Geopsyche' in the Poetry of Don McKay, Canadian Poetry 55 (Fall/Winter) 65-85, 2004.
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Appendix Tab 8 Contents note:
"that every feather is a pen, but living, // DESIRE: THE METAPOETICS OF DON MCKAY'S BIRDING, or desire," Studies in Canadian Literature 19(2): 14-19, 1994.
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Appendix Tab 9: Contents note:
"Ecofeminist Canadian Literature," Teaching North American Environmental Literature, Christensen, Long, and Waage, eds. MLA: New York, 2008: 328-334.
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Be-(me-at)ing and the Eden-ed: Animal Trafficking and the woman-nature link - Practical essentialism in Canadian poets Kathleen Forsythe and Cathy Ford. International Poetic Ecologies, Brussels, 2008.
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