Stephen Slemon

Stephen Slemon, Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta’s Department of English and Film Studies, and as of 2024 a Fellow of the RCGS, teaches and writes on mountain literature and cultures, with an eye towards greater inclusion and equity in a postcolonial future. His essays on mountaineering and its global cultures have appeared in Alpinist, The Canadian Alpine Journal, Canadian Geographic, Rocky Mountains Annual, and the Alpine Club of Canada’s State of the Mountains Report, and in a number of journals and scholarly collections dedicated to post-colonialism and its discontents. He serves most years as a reader for the Banff Mountain Book and Film Festival, has sat as a member of the ACC’s Mountain Culture Committee, and appears briefly but buoyantly to talk about mountains and Romanticism in the massive open online course Mountains 101. A co-authored new history of early mountaineering in the Canadian Rockies is in the works, and will be published at some future point during the Anthropocene by UBC Press. He lives in Victoria, BC.