{"id":4214,"date":"2011-11-18T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T21:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?post_type=cu_people&p=4214"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:46:38","slug":"david-stymeist","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/david-stymeist\/","title":{"rendered":"David Stymeist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Creative Writing (Poetry)<\/li>\n
  • The literature, ideas, and culture of the 16th<\/sup> and 17th<\/sup> centuries<\/li>\n
  • Crime Writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    D.S. Stymeist\u2019s<\/strong> debut collection, The Bone Weir, was published by Frontenac Press and was a finalist for the Canadian Author\u2019s Association Award for Poetry. His next collection, Cluster Flux, will appear in 2023 also with Frontenac. He continues to publish widely in both academic and literary magazines including Canadian Literature, The Antigonish Review, Prairie Fire, and The Fiddlehead. Alongside fending off Crohn\u2019s disease, he teaches creative writing, crime fiction, and Renaissance literature at Carleton University. He grew up as a non-indigenous member of a mixed heritage family on O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation; these formative cultural experiences continue to guide and shape his identity. As former president of VERSe Ottawa, he helped organize VERSeFest, Ottawa\u2019s international poetry festival as well as manage the city of Ottawa\u2019s Poet Laureate program.<\/p>\n

    Creative Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Cluster Flux<\/em>. Frontenac House Press, 2023. (Poetry)<\/li>\n
    • The Bone Weir. Frontenac House Press, 2016. (Poetry)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Creative Awards
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      • Shortlist, Canadian Author\u2019s Association award for Poetry, 2016.<\/li>\n
      • Shortlist, Vallum<\/em> Award for Poetry, 2015.<\/li>\n
      • Honourable Mention, Freefall<\/em> Award for Poetry, 2022.<\/li>\n
      • Shortlist, Freefall<\/em> Award for Poetry, 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Academic Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

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        • Carleton Teaching Award, 2011.<\/li>\n
        • Research Achievement Award, RDC, 2008.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Academic Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

          \u201cStudents Teaching Texts to Students: Integrating LdL and Digital Archives.\u201d College Teaching<\/em> 63.2 (2015): 46-51.<\/p>\n

          \u201cAnxiety Fiction: Domestic Poisoning in Early Modern News, Arden of Faversham<\/em>, and Hamlet<\/em>.\u201d Essays in Renaissance Culture<\/em> 41 (2015): 30-55.<\/p>\n

          \u201cCriminal Biography in Early Modern Crime Pamphlets. \u201cTaking Exception to the Law: Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature<\/em>, eds. Don Beecher, Travis DeCook, Andrew Wallace, and Grant Williams. Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 2014.<\/p>\n

          \u201cFortune, that arrant whore, ne\u2019er turns the key to th\u2019 poor\u201d: Vagrancy, Old Age, and the Theatre in Shakespeare\u2019s King Lear. Cahiers Elizabethains 71 (2007): 37-47.<\/p>\n

          Status, Sodomy, and Persecution in Marlowe\u2019s Edward II. Studies in English Literature 44.2 (2004): 1-22.<\/p>\n

          Female Criminality in Henry Goodcole\u2019s Murder Pamphlets. Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 36 (2003): 31-48.<\/p>\n

          \u201cMust I be Made a Common Sink\u201d: Witchcraft and the Theatre in The Witch of Edmonton. Renaissance & Reformation 25.2 (2001): 33-53.<\/p>\n

          \u201cStrange Wives\u201d: Pocahontas in Early Modern Colonial Advertisement. Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 35.3 (2002): 109-26.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22130,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"David","cu_people_last_name":"Stymeist","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[114],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-4214","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-creative-writing-instructors"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"","cu_people_degree":"B.A., M.A. (University of Manitoba), Ph.D. (Queen\u2019s University)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"david.stymeist@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/4214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/4214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22176,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/4214\/revisions\/22176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=4214"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=4214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}