“The Kootenay Plains,” in Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada, ed Eric Higgs, Zac Robinson, Mary Sanseverino, Kristen Walsh. UCalgaryPress, 2025, pp 60-61.

“The Abbot Pass hut, an iconic mountain refuge, is dismantled – due to climate change, with David Hik and Zac Robinson. Canadian Geographic. July 2022.

–Rpt. 2022 in “Best of the Year” issue.  

“The Literature of Ascent,” alpinist.com, March 2017.

“A Climber’s Guide,” with Zac Robinson, Rocky Mountain Annual, No 2 (2017), 86-89.

“Hard Time in the Canadian Pacific Rockies,” with Zac Robinson. Rocky Mountains Annual, No 1 (2016), 62-73.

“The Postcolonial Turn” (150 word entry for the “40 on 40” feature, English Studies in Canada, 41, 1 (Dec 2015), p. 13. (scroll down)

“The Shining Mountains,” with Zac Robinson. Alpinist, 50 (Summer, 2015), 115-24.   

–rpt. as a booklet, Alpine Club of Canada, 2022.

“After the Matterhorns,” with Zac Robinson.  Canadian Alpine Journal, 96 (2013), 18-23.

Afterword.” The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies. Ed. Graham Huggan. Oxford UP, 2013. (page proof pdf)

“Tenzing Norgay’s Four Flags,” Kunapipi, XXXIV, 2 (2012), 32-41.

“Deception in High Places:  Revisiting Brown and Hooker,” with Zac Robinson, Canadian Alpine Journal, 94 (2011), 12-17.

revised and expanded as “Deception in High Places: The Making and Unmaking of Mounts Hooker and Brown,” in Liza Piper and Lisa Szabo, eds., Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Western Environments, Past and Present. Waterloo: WLUP, 2015, pp. 139-59. (endnotes here)

“Empire”, with Jo-Ann Wallace, in Keywords for Children’s Literature, ed. Lissa Paul and Philip Nel, NYU Press, 2011, pp. 75-78.

“The Brotherhood of the Rope:  Commodification and Contradiction in ‘The Mountaineering Community’”, in Renegotiating Community:  Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts.  Ed. Diana Brydon & William D. Coleman.  Globalization and Autonomy series, Vancouver:  UBC Press, 2008, pp. 234-45, 271-72. (notes here)

“TransCanada, Literature:  No Direction Home,”  in Smaro Kamboureli and Roy Miki, eds., Trans.Can.Lit:  Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature (Waterloo:  Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2007), pp. 71-83. (notes here)

“Why Do I Have to Write Like That?”, Introduction to a Reader’s Forum, English Studies in Canada, 32 , (June/September 2006), 1-3.

“dot-com agency:  the Politics of Knowing,” English Studies in Canada, 31.4 (September 2005), 27-29.

“Protest Fiction in the Throng of Words”, International Conference on “Protest and its Aftermath in Post-War Literature”, Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur, India, Aug. 2004. (keynote address at the International Conference on “Protest and its Aftermath in Post-War Literature”, Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur, India, Aug. 2004.)

“Afterword” to Home-Work:  Postcolonialism, Pedagogy,and Canadian Literature.  Ed. Cynthia Sugars.  Reappraisals:  Canadian Writers Series.  Ottawa:  Univ. of Ottawa, 2004, pp. 517-23.

“Afterword”, to Is Canada Postcolonial?  Unsettling Canadian Literature  ed. Laura Moss.  Waterloo:  Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2003, pp. 318-24

“Soyinka and the Canon’s Mouth”, Modern Drama, 43, 3 (2003), 338-48.

“allegory,” with Chris Gittings. Entry in Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada, ed. William H New. Toronto: UTP, 2002, 16-`7.

“Return of the Native”, in Resistance and Reconciliation:  Writing in the Commonwealth, ed. Bruce Bennett, Susan Cowan, Jacqueline Lo, Satendra Nandan and Jennifer Webb.  Canberra:  Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 2003, pp. 1-15. (from keynote address, ACLALS 2001:  “Writing, Resistance and Reconciliation in Commonwealth Cultures”, XIIth Triennial ACLALS Conference, Canberra, July 2001.)

“Imperialism is Gone, Domination Remains”, op-ed (invited), in Newsday, Wednesday, March 8^th, 2000, p. A49. -rpt. as “The New Face of Imperialism”, Toronto Star, Mar. 14, 2000, p. A22.-rpt. as “Real end of empire a distant dream”, Dawn (Karachi), Mar. 11, 2000 (04 Zilhaj 1420).  rpt. Dallas Morning News, Mar. 11, 2000

“Climbing Mount Everest:   Postcolonialism in the Culture of Ascent”, Canadian Literature, 158 (Autumn,1998), 15-41.

–rpt. in Postcolonising the Commonwealth, ed. Rowland Smith (Kitchner: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2000).

“Postcolonialism and Language”, with Kwaku Larbi Korang, in Writing and Africa, ed. Mpalive-Hangson Msiska and Paul Hyland (London and New York:  Addison Wesley Longman, 1997), pp. 246-63.

“Postcolonial Critical Theories”, in New National and Post-colonial Literatures:  An Introduction, ed. Bruce King (Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1996), pp. 178-97.  (link is to rpt. in Castle, Postcolonial Discourse – see below).

—rpt. Postcolonial Discourse:  An Anthology, ed. Gregory Castle.  Oxford:  Blackwell, 2001, pp. 100-16.

“Afterword:  The English Side of the Lawn“, in Testing the Limits:  Postcolonial Theories and Canadian Literatures, special issue of Essays in Canadian Writing, (ed., Diana Brydon) 56 (1995), 274-86.)

Introductory Note, Postcolonialism and its Discontents (with Pamela McCallum and Aruna Srivastava), special  issues of ARIEL, 26, 1 (January 1995) and 26, 3 (July 1995), in 26, 1, pp. 7-22

“The Scramble for Post-colonialism“, in Alan Lawson and Chris Tiffin, eds., De-Scribing Empire (London:  Routledge, 1994), pp. 15-32.

–rpt. in W.D. Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, eds., The Post-Colonial Studies Reader  (London:  Routledge, 1995), pp. 45-52;

 –rpt. in Ted Motohashi, ed., The Cultural Studies Reader (Japanese edition), Tokyo:  Getsuyosha, forthcoming 2009.

“Teaching at the End of Empire“, College Literature, 19, 3 and 20.1 (October, 1992 and February, 1993), 152-61.

–rpt. in Kostas Myrsiades and Jerry McGuire, eds., Order and Partialities:  Theory, Pedagogy, and the “Postcolonial”, New York:  SUNY Press, 1995, pp. 285-98.

“Bones of Contention:  Post-colonialism and the ‘Cannibal’ Question”, in Anthony Purdy, ed., Literature and the Body  (Amsterdam:  Rodopi, 1992), pp. 163-78. 

“Into the Heart of Darkness?:  Teaching Children’s Literature as a Problem in Theory”, J. Wallace, Canadian Children’s Literature, 63 (1991), 6-23.

“Wilson Harris and the ‘Subject’ of Realism”, in Hena Maes-Jelinek, ed., Wilson Harris:  The Uncompromising Imagination  (Aarhus, Denmark:  Dangaroo Press, 1991), 70-82. .

“Post-Colonial Writing:  A Critique of Pure Reading”, Mediating Cultures/Probleme des Kulturtransfers:  Perspektiven fur Forschung und Lehre, Band 1 (Yearbook of the Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English), ed. Norbert H. Platz, Essen:  Die Blaue Eule, 1991, pp. 51-63. (Keynote address at the 13th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft fur die Neuen Englischsprachigen Literaturen (GNEL), June 13, 1990.)

“Unsettling the Empire:  Resistance Theory for the Second World”, World Literature Written in English, 30, 2 (Autumn 1990), 30-42.

–rpt. in Contemporary Postcolonial Theory:  A Reader, ed. Padmini Mongia.  London:  E. Arnold, 1996; Delhi: Oxford UP, 1997, pp.  72-83.

–rpt.in New Contexts of Canadian Criticism, ed. Ajay Heble, Donna Palmateer Pennee, and J.R. (Tim) Struthers.  Peterborough:  Broadview Press, 1997.

—rpt. in Postcolonialism:  Critical Concept in Literary and Cultural Studies.  ed. Diana Brydon.    London:  Routledge, 2000, pp. 345-57.

–rpt. in Unhomely States:  Theorizing English-Canadian Postcolonialisms, ed. Cynthia Sugars.  Peterborough:  Broadview, 2004, 139-50.

“Modernism’s Last Post”, ARIEL, 20, 4 (Oct. 1989), 3-17. 

–rpt. in Past the Last Post:  Theorizing Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism, ed. Ian Adam and Helen Tiffin (Calgary and Brighton:  Univ. of Calgary Press and Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1991), pp. 1-11

–rpt. in  A Postmodern Reader, ed. Joseph Natoli and Linda Hutcheon (Albany:  SUNY Press, 1993, 426-39.

“Reading for Resistance in the Post-Colonial Literatures”, in A Shaping of Connections:  Commonwealth Literature Studies – Then and Now, ed. Hena Maes-Jelinek, Kirsten Holst Petersen, and Anna Rutherford (Aarhus:  Dangaroo, 1989), pp. 100-115.

After Europe: Critical Theory and Post-Colonial Writing, ed. (with Helen Tiffin) (Aarhus, Denmark: Dangaroo Press, 1989). Also issues as a special issue of Kunapipi, XI, 1 (1989). Introduction, pp. ix-xxiii

“‘Carnival’ and the Canon”, ARIEL, 19, 3 (July 1988), 59-75.

“Magic Realism as Post-Colonial Discourse”, Canadian Literature, 116 (Spring 1988), 9-24.

–revised and rpt., Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris, eds., Magical Realism:  Theory, History, Community (Durham and London:  Duke UP, 1995), pp. 407-26.

—Persian translation of “Magic Realism as Post-Colonial Discourse”. Javad Momeni, Tarjomaan Publications, Tehran 2014

“Post-Colonial Allegory and the Transformation of History“, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, XXIII, 1 (1988), 157-68.

“Monuments of Empire: Allegory/Counter-Discourse/Post-Colonial Writing”, Kunapipi, IX, 3 (1987), 1-16

Commentary (as President of Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English):

“Why We Speak Out,” ACCUTE website, July 7, 2014.

“The Humanities Crisis Industry,” ACCUTE website, March 10, 2014. 

“The 76%,” ACCUTE website, April 6, 2013

Videos

“Sustaining Mountain Cultures in the Canadian West,” U of Alberta Arts/KIAS “Celebration of Research,” March 2016.

“My Favourite Mountain,” in the “Mountains 101” MOOC,

Interviews

“Ten Minutes with Stephen Slemon,” interview in Work of Arts,” Faculty of Arts, Univ of Alberta, Spring 2012.

A Conversation about Postcolonial Study – An Interview with Professor Stephen Slemon”, by Yukuo Wang.  Contemporary Foreign Literature, Issue #2, 2005, pp. 167-75. (mandarin version)

“Interview with Wilson Harris”, ARIEL, 19, 3 (July 1988), 47-56; rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism, ed. Janel Witalec. Detroit: Gale, 2002, pp. 198-201

“Out on the Verandah:  A Conversation with Jack Hodgins,” with Alan Lawson, Australian-Canadian Studies, 5, 1 (1987), 31-47

Reviews Articles

of Geoff Powter, Inner Ranges: An Anthology of Mountain Thoughts and Mountain People, 2018, in The BC Review, 2019.

of Vinayak Chaturvedi, ed., Mapping the Subaltern and the Postcolonial, in ARIEL 38, 2-3 (April-July 2007), 198-202.

“Lament for a Notion”, Review of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Death of a Discipline.  The Wellek Library Lectures in Critical Theory.  New York:  Columbia UP, 2003.  in English Studies in Canada, 29, 1-2 (March/June 2003), 207-18

“Cultural Alterity and Colonial Discourse”, Southern Review, 20, 1 (March 1987), 102-07.  Review of Francis Barker et al, eds., Europe and its others, Proceedings of the Essex Conference on the Sociology of Literature, July 1984 (Colchester:  Univ. of Essex, 1985).