Dianne Chisholm is Professor of English in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She researches, teaches, and publishes in areas of modernism and modernity, with specializations in literary theory, critical theory, feminist theory, women's modernism and experimental writing, queer theory and cultural studies, nature and environmental writing, climbing and mountaineering literature. She serves on the editorial board of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature and as advisory editor for Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge.

Her latest book Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space in the Wake of the City (U Minnesota P, 2005) uses Walter Benjamin's critical models to analyze representations of social-sexual space in queer narratives of contemporary inner-city life. Her first book H.D.'s Freudian Poetics: Psychoanalysis in Translation (Cornell UP, 1992) analyzes H.D's (Hilda Doolittle’s) epic poems and autobiographies as feminist revisions of Freud's theories of female sexuality and related phenomena. She is guest editor of “Deleuze and Guattari’s Ecophilosophy” a special issue of Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 15 (2007), and coeditor of The Other City: (De)Mystifying Urban Culture, a special issue of the Journal of Urban History, as well as advisory editor of Feminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary, ed. Elizabeth Wright (Blackwell, 1992). (Read more in Books.)

She is currently developing a research program under the working title “Literature for a New Earth,” the primary aim of which is to explore, theorize, and elaborate the concept and practice of literary ecology, and to demonstrate how, and how well, literary ecology creates new ecological thinking for enhancing environmental health. Concurrent book projects include: The Becoming Landscapes of Literary Ecology, a critical monograph, and Home, Home on the Deranged: A Field Guide to the Colliding Landscapes of Alberta’s Front Ranges, a creative non-fiction collection. (Read more in Upcoming.)