Rob Budde
Rob Budde teaches creative writing and critical theory at the University of Northern British Columbia. He has published seven books (poetry, novels, interviews, and prose poems). His most recent book is Finding Ft. George from Caitlin Press.
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Why Eating Matters
When I teach my Northern BC Literature course at UNBC, I always like to have a book or two that come from the North, but are not about the place— they don’t refer to place names or landscape or moose and pine trees.
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The tricky business of protocol and permission
Northern BC comprises a host of First Nations territories and, as a settler/guest, there are certain ways I have learned to recognize those territories, the traditional families and elders.
READ MORE➦The poetry of politics
The activities of university English departments used to be to hunker down and study the classics: to read and analyze literature.
READ MORE➦Theories of Who We Are
Identity politics is the struggle to articulate who we are in the face of dominant cultures that try to erase difference.
READ MORE➦The Northern Male Man
Of all the experiences in my life, I feel like I can speak with the most authenticity about my maleness and the pressures of male behaviour I have felt over the course of my 40+ years.
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Respecting Nonhuman Beings
In the late 1990s, Cree elder David Bird visited my Aboriginal Literature class at the University of Winnipeg.
READ MORE➦Prince George literary heroes
One of the lessons I have learned in my travels through different cultural communities...
READ MORE➦Postcolonial impulses and northern BC
Recently, an author with a national reputation questioned what role “postcolonialism” plays in northern BC politics or culture.
READ MORE➦Winter 2018-19: Slow
Slow repairs, slow pace, slow recovery, and much more.
