Degrees: B.A. Hons., Bishop's, M.A., Acadia, Ph.D., University of Alberta

Christian Riegel has published five books: Challenging Territory: The Writing of Margaret Laurence, A Sense of Place: Re-evaluating Regionalism in Canadian and American Writing, Response to Death: The Literary Work of Mourning, Writing Grief: Margaret Laurence and the Work of Mourning, and Twenty-First Century Canadian Writing, a volume in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. He has published on a variety of contemporary and recent writers, and he is an active poet and fiction writer. He is an advisory editor for the journal Studies in Canadian Literature.  Riegel's research has been funded by SSHRC (Standard Research &  Research Development Initiative grants), and by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation Leaders Opportunity Fund. He conducts interdisciplinary research on poetics and ubiquitous technology with collaborators in Engineering, Psychology, and Fine Arts--in the newly opened Interactive Media, Poetics, Aesthetics, Cognition, and Technology Lab (IMPACT)--as well as with partners at Carleton's Visual Simulation Lab and Centre for Cognitive Research.