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Karin Cope
(b.1963 -) An American poet, artist, and sailor who resides Nova Scotia, Canada. She is also a photographer, writer, activist, blogger and associate professor in the Art History and Contemporary Studies division of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.-1

Bio/ Life
Cope attended Yale University and graduated in 1985 with a concentration in Women’s Studies. Following Karin worked alongside Harold Bloom in helping as a researcher and editor of literary criticism (1986-1989)-2. Karin attended Johns Hopkins University-3 at this time and graduated (1992) with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with extensive work in Art History. Karin’s Dissertation focused on “Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, and the Love of Error”.

Publications
Cope is foremost a poet but also an avid researcher and scholar of Gertude Stein, queer and sex theory and social observations written four books, often alongside fellow writer Marika Finlay such as her 2014 publication “As if trying to weep: El Salavdor 2006”. She has published one book and three academic papers pertaining to her studies of Gertrude Stein during her time at John Hopkins University while obtaining her PHd under the thesis “Gertrude Stein Pablo Picasso and the Love of Error”. Cope maintains several blogs documenting her writings and research, most notable “Visual Poetry: Aesthetic Acts in Progress” an ongoing project beginning in 2009 exploring a redefinition of what is commonly considered to be poetry, stepping into the ways in which images and actions can also be included in what is deemed “poetry”. In 2010 Cope published a selection of works from “Visual Poetry” in a book entitled “Visual Poetry: The First Fifteen Months”. Cope has made several scholarly contributions in the fields of queer theory and feminism such as “Plastic Actions: Linguistics and Stradegies and Le Corps Lesbian” for Hypatia Magazine, edited by Elizabeth Grosz, “Moral Deviancy and Contemporary Feminism: The Judgement of Gertrude Stein” for Feminism Beside Itself and “They aren’t a boy or a girl, they are mysterious” for Desiring Change: Contemporary Feminist Art as a part of the 30th Anniversary Celebration of Mentoring Artists for Women's Arts (MAWA).

Art
In 2015, Karin participated in Nocturne, with Aurelia aurita, This consisted of Mirrored giant video projections of drifting moon jellies at the Anna Leonowens Gallery. Cope’s Solo exhibition, Flows (Given Water) was on in the Anna Leonowens Gallery at the same time.

Selected Publications
What we’re doing to stay afloat Lawrencetown, NS Pottersfield Press. 2015.

As if trying to weep: El Salvador 2006. Self Published, 2014.

Visible Poetry I (The First Fifteen Months). Blurb Books. 2010.

Passionate Collaborations: Learning to Live with Gertrude Stein. Victoria: ELS Editions, University of Victoria Press. 2005.

Casting a Legend:The Story of the Lunenburg Foundry. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing. 2002.

Teaching
Cope was at McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec, as an Assistant Professor, in the Department of English from 1993-1999 -4. S taught Histories and epistemologies of modernity: including American, African-American and African-diasporic literature and theory, Caribbean literature and history, gender studies and feminist theory, psychoanalysis, European and North American visual and literary modernism, postcolonial studies. Karin was the first professor to teach gender studies at McGill. After moving to Nova Scotia, Cope began teaching English and critical Studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2003 and became a full time faculty member in 2010.

Activism
Cope has been involved in activist work since 1984 when she was in her senior year at Yale University. During a protest of Technical and Clerical workers at Yale -5 she was arrested along with two others, while acting as a speaker for the student body. The “workers triumphed with a contract ratified on Jan 22 that slashed the salary gap between female and male employees and black and white personnel.-6 Cope is a founding member of the Association for the prevention of the Eastern Shore (2012). The group is concerned with the protection of jobs in the area, as the provincial government wants to build lobster farms. This association is concerned for the local lobster fishermen and the damages to the environment that could be caused by these farms. - 7

Awards, Grants and Fellowships
Emerging Writer's Creation Grant for Needful As Air Canada Council

Individual Creation Grant to complete Wonders Taken For Signs Nova Scotia Arts Council

First Prize for “The Aroma of Bees” The Great Blue Heron Poetry Context, The Antigonish Review 2001

Louis Dudek Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Department of DEnglish, McGill, Spring 1998

Subvention Nouveau Chercheur Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l’Aide à la Recherche (Québec) McGill University 1994-1997

Donald C. Gallup Fellow Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University 1993-4

Dr. Cope went to Brown University (1992-1993) for a Post-doctoral Fellowship to focus on “Multiculturalism and the Arts” at The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women.