Kenneth Wilson

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Research Interests

• Canadian literature
• Place-writing
• Pilgrimage and writing about walking
• Ecocriticism
• Creative writing
• Indigenous literature
• Walking as an artistic and performance practice

Ken Wilson has a BA (Highest Honours) and an MA, both in English, from Carleton University, and an MFA in Theatre and a PhD in Media and Artistic Research from the University of Regina. He received the President’s Distinguished Graduate Student Award from the University of Regina in 2023. His research interests include pilgrimage, walking as a mode of performance, place writing, ecocriticism, Canadian literature, and creative nonfiction. He has presented conference papers and published articles and book chapters on the nineteenth-century Canadian writer James De Mille, Indigenous walking performances as a form of resurgence, the theatre of Canadian playwright Colleen Murphy, and the theory and practice of pilgrimage. He has also published creative nonfiction and poetry. His first book, Walking the Bypass: Notes on Place from the Side of the Road, will appear in October 2025. Its manuscript won the 2022 City of Regina Writing Award. His second book, Walking Well, will appear in 2026.