McMaster University

Daniel Coleman

Criticism, Memoir

Daniel Coleman is a professor of English and cultural studies at McMaster University, where he directs the Centre for Community Engaged Narrative Arts. Coleman has written scholarly books about literature, masculinity, migration, and whiteness in Canada. He has also published literary non-fiction books about his upbringing among missionaries in Ethiopia, about the spiritual and cultural politics of reading, and about eco-human relations in Hamilton, Ontario, the post-industrial city where he lives in the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas. 


Festival Years: 2016