Adam Hammond


About Me


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Here is a bio for me:

Adam Hammond is a professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he teaches the first-year class “Literature for Our Time.” He is the author of The Far Shore (Coach House Books, 2021) and Literature in the Digital Age (Cambridge University Press, 2016), co-author of Modernism: Keywords (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Literature in a Digital Age (2024) and Cambridge Critical Concepts: Technology and Literature (2023). His work has been profiled in Wired and on BBC and CBC Radio. He releases music under the name Single Pigeon. He is a competitive masters runner with many Canadian national titles and one briefly-held age-group national record. He lives in Toronto with his partner and two cats.

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Hmm, this seems like as good a place as any to list some of my favourite books, books being my favourite things. In no particular order: Proust, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Sheila Heti, Vigdis Hjorth, Olga Ravn's My Work, Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream, Richard Bruce Nugent's "Smoke, Lilies, and Jade," Katherine Mansfield's "Bliss," Christopher Isherwood, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kari Hukkila's One Thousand & One, Blake Butler's Molly, Blake, Knausgaard, Rachel Cusk, Adelaide Faith's Happiness Forever, Marta Balcewicz's Big Shadow, Jean Marc Ah-Sen's Kilworthy Tanner, Chico Buarque's Budapest, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis, Catherine Gallagher's "The Rise of Fictionality," Melba Cuddy-Keane's Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere, Ken Hirschkop's Mikhail Bakhtin: an Aesthetic for Democracy, Alex Hutchinson's The Explorer's Gene, Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, William James, Oliver Sacks's Awakenings, Charles Darwin.

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