Clare Goulet

Clare Goulet teaches in the English Department (both Literature and Writing courses) at Mount Saint Vincent University, where she created and is now Programme Facilitator for the Voices Project writing collective at the Institute for the Study of Women. She also created (and co-ordinates with Dr. Lorri Neilsen Glenn) the “Thinking & Singing” speaker series in poetry. 

Teaching, writing, and research interests centre on metaphor, poetics, manuscript editing, polyphonic form, and the application of “lyric philosophy” in higher education. Most recent work in this area is as contributing co-editor with Mark Dickinson for Lyric Ecology (Cormorant 2010), a collection of essays on the work of Canadian poet-philospher Jan Zwicky. 

As literary editor, worked for ten years with Brick Books and since 2001 as occasional editor in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for Gaspereau Press. Worked as editor (trade) for Nimbus Publishing 1999 - 2007 (history/creative nonfiction/ life sciences). Currently edit by invitation on selected manuscripts.  

Published essays and poetry for peer-reviewed literary journals, books, academic conference proceedings, magazine, and radio. Presented on metaphor and polyphonic projects at national conferences for higher education. 

Currently working on a small poetic Index of Names involving my true passion -- lichens! -- and pursuing cross-disciplinary studies on metaphor.