This panel invites proposals that explore Canadian literature through the lens of world literature, attending to issues of multilingualism, diaspora, and the construction of literary canons. How can the frameworks and methodologies of world literature inform or reshape our understanding of Canadian literature - a body of writing that resists singular narratives and is inherently multilingual and diasporic? In what ways do practices of teaching, publishing, and translating world literature within Canada - particularly in educational institutions, small presses, and literary communities - participate in the reimagining of Canadian literary identity?

We especially welcome papers that explore how world literature can foster the inclusion of marginalized voices - indigenous, immigrant, exilic, and otherwise - in the ongoing development of Canadian literature. To what extent does world literature offer tools for unsettling dominant literary paradigms and for constructing a Canadian canon that is dynamic, plural, and reflective of the country’s complex cultural realities? Papers may consider comparative approaches, case studies, pedagogical strategies, translation networks, or institutional frameworks that highlight the interplay between world literature and Canadian literary production.

Potential topics might include:

• Small press strategies for transnational literary circulation in Canada
• Pedagogical frameworks for teaching translated world literatures in Canadian classrooms
• Indigeneity and settler colonialism in translation and reception
• Multilingualism and its representation in Canada
• Publishing infrastructures and the global mobility of texts
• Canon formation through translation and institutional adoption
• World literature in Canadian classrooms and national literature departments: inclusion and omission
• Translated literature as a site of cultural negotiation
• Cross-cultural frameworks for the representations of gender, race, and ethnicity