Domenico A. Beneventi

• 2009-2010 - Post-doctorat CELAT-UQAM, « Errances urbaines : itinérances littéraires à Montréal (1980-2010) »
• 2006-2008 - Post-doctorat CRSH, Université de Sherbrooke « La représentation du sans-abri dans la littérature urbaine canadienne »
• 2005 - Ph.D., Littérature comparée, Université de Montréal, “Spatial Exclusion and the Abject Other in Canadian Urban Literature”
• 1998 - M.A. Études anglaises, Université de Montréal : “Mapping Identity : Ethnic Self-Fashioning in Italian-Canadian Literature”
• 1995 - B.A. English, Concordia University

• Gender studies and queer theory
• Canadian and Quebec literatures
• Comparative Canadian literature
• Urban writing
• Minority literatures in Canada and Quebec
• Anglo-Quebec literature
• Class, poverty, and homelessness in literature

• Directeur, Équipe de recherche FRQSC en études queer au Québec (ÉRÉQQ)
• Membre, Groupe de recherche VersUS
• Collaborateur, Centre de recherche des études littéraires et culturelles sur la planétarité (CELCP)
• Membre, Quebec English-speaking Communities Research Network (QUESCREN)

Books

• Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Québec. University of Toronto Press, 2019.
• La lutte pour l’espace : ville, performance, et culture d’en bas. Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2017. 
• Adjacencies: Minority Writing in Canada. Guernica, 2004. 

Book Chapters

• “Introduction.” Here and Now : An Anthology of Queer Italian-Canadian Writing. Longbridge, 2021.
• « Prendre parole: Bégaiements Queer dans Mouthquake de David Allen Cox » Québequeer: Le queer dans les productions littéraires, artistiques et médiatiques québécoises Presses de Université de Montréal, 2020. 
• « Falta de moradia, exclusão espacial e marginalização na literatura indígena canadense » (« Exclusion spatiale, marginalisation et itinérance dans la littérature indigène au Canada ») Literatura marginal e sua crítica, Hucitec Editora, 2020.
• “Tramping Across the Nation: Homeless Embodiment in Depression-era Canadian Literature.” Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Québec. University of Toronto Press, 2019.
• “Queer Bodies, Grotesque Desires.” The Radiance of the Short Story. Lee and Penn, 2019.
• Domenic A. Beneventi “The Urban Poetry of Pier Giorgio Di Cicco.” Pier Giorgio Di Cicco: Essays on His Works. Guernica. 2011. 
• “Exposed to the Elements: Homelessness in Recent Canadian Fiction.” Canada Exposed / le Canada à découvert. Peter Lang, 2009.
• “Salt-Water City: The Representation of Vancouver in Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Café and Wayson Choy’s The Jade Peony.” Claiming Space: Racialization and Spatiality in Canadian Cities. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 2006. 
• “Lost in the City: The Montréal Novels of Régine Robin and Robert Majzels.” Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities. University of Toronto Press, 2005. 
• “Heterotopias: The Imaginary Construction of Place in Italian-Canadian Writing.” Adjacencies: Minority Writing in Canada. Guernica, 2004. 

Journal Special Issues

• “Queer Frontiers.” Special Issue of Canadian Literature, No. 224, 2015.
• ”Queer Bodies / Corps Queers.” Special Issue of Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne. 46.1, 2021.

Journal Articles 

• “Queer Appetites: Embodied Desire in Monica Meneghetti’s What the Mouth Wants.” Italian Canadiana. Vol 34, 2020. 
• “Queering Montreal: counter-publics in Peter Dubé’s The City’s Gates and Zoe Whittall’s Bottle Rocket Hearts. Contemporary French Civilization. 43.3-4, 2018.
• “Re-imagining Trauma: Montréal Under Siege in Michel Basilières Black Bird.” ZKS: Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien. Issue 66, 2016.
• “Bodies at Risk: Urban Danger in Zsuzsi Gartner’s “City of my Dreams” and Maggie Helwig’s Girls Fall Down. Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies. 3.1-2, 2013.
• “Montreal Underground.” Journal of Canadian Studies. Special Issue, Anglo- Quebec Literature. 46.3, 2012.