Amy Lavender Harris
About Me
... teaches in the Department of Geography at York University. The Imagining Toronto project explores intersections of literature and place in the Toronto region. Amy is a contributing editor with Spacing magazine, where she writes a regular column on Toronto literature; she also writes regularly about the imagined city at Reading Toronto. Her work has also appeared in The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto (Coach House, 2007), GreenTOpia (Coach House, 2007), Open Book magazine, and Canada: A Literary Tour (LAC, forthcoming 2008). Amy is also the author of Imagining Toronto, which is scheduled to be published by Mansfield Press in the fall of 2008. She speaks regularly to scholarly and popular audiences about Toronto literature and the imaginative qualities of cities. Email Amy at alharris@yorku.ca
Interests
- Environmental philosophy
- phenomenology
- the nature of ideas and ideas of nature
- thought
- writing
- Canadian literature
- Toronto fiction
- urban phenomenology
- the poetry of Mark Strand
- the nature of principle
- hiddenness
- labour relations
- seasons
- weather
- world
- life
- death
- becoming.
Favorite Books
- The Weather of Words (Mark Strand; also The Continuous Life; The Story of Our Lives; The Monument; and Blizzard of One)
- Being and Time (Martin Heidegger)
- Building Dwelling Thinking (Heidegger)
- Heidegger's Later Philosophy (Julian Young)
- The Embers and the Stars (Erazim Kohak)
- Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy
- W.B. Yeats
- some of Joyce
- Carol Shields
- literary biographies
- George Orwell
- An omnivorous and voracious reader.
