User:Alharris

Amy Lavender Harris

I teach in the Department of Geography at York University in Toronto, Canada.

I am the author of Imagining Toronto (Mansfield Press, forthcoming spring 2010).

I am a contributing editor with Spacing magazine, where I write a regular column on Toronto literature. My work also appears in Open Book magazine, Reading Toronto, The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto (Coach House, 2006), GreenTOpia (with Peter Fruchter, Coach House, 2007), Canada: A Literary Tour (Library & Archives Canada, 2009), Plan Canada and the Ontario Planning Journal.

I speak regularly to popular and scholarly audiences about Toronto literature and the imaginative qualities of cities. Recent and forthcoming appearances include Salon Voltaire (2006), the Goethe Institute (2006), Juice Dialogues/Think Tank at OCAD (2006), the Toronto Festival of Architecture & Design (May 2007), Walk21 (October 2007), Beyond Bureaucracy (November 2007), the Walk21 Toronto Community Conference (March 2008), Jane's Walk (May 2008), the 4th annual Osgoode Constitutional Roundtable (March 2009), Doors Open Toronto (May 2009) and Bookcamp Toronto (June 2009).

I became a Wikipedia contributor in May of 2006, initially to correct an inaccuracy in a page on Gwendolyn MacEwen. Because my fields of interest are underrepresented here, I have decided to stick around and build pages for them. Nearly four years later (fall 2009), my contributions have focused mainly on correcting typographical errors and adding content to existing pages, mostly about Toronto writers and Toronto literature.

