Erin Wunker is a Canadian feminist theorist and literary scholar whose book Notes from A Feminist Killjoy won the Evelyn Richardson Award at the Atlantic Book Awards in 2017. She is an assistant professor and department chair at Dalhousie University.

Wunker holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master of Arts from McGill University, and a PhD from the University of Calgary.^[1] She is the department chair at Dalhousie University's department of English, where she also works as an assistant professor.^[1]

In 2017, Wunker's book Notes From a Feminist Killjoy won the Evelyn Richardson Award and the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award,^[2][3] and was shortlisted for the Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing.^[4]

• Wunker, Erin (2016). Notes From a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life. Toronto: Book*hug Press. ISBN 978-1-7716-6256-7.^{[5][6][7][8][9]}
• Wunker, Erin (2020). The Routledge Introduction to Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Canadian Poetry. New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429352966. ISBN 978-0-3673-7166-1.

• Vautour, Bart; Wunker, Erin; Mason, Travis V.; Verduyn, Christl, eds. (2015). Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 978-1-7711-2047-0.^[10][11]
• Queyras, Sina (2016). Wunker, Erin (ed.). Barking and Biting: The Poetry of Sina Queyras. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 978-1-7711-2216-0.^[12]
• McGregor, Hannah; Rak, Julie; Wunker, Erin, eds. (2018). Refuse: CanLit in Ruins. Toronto: Book*hug Press. ISBN 978-1-7716-6431-8.^[13]
• Brossard, Nicole (2020). Queyras, Sina; Robichaud, Genevieve; Wunker, Erin (eds.). Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader. Toronto: Coach House Books. ISBN 978-1-5524-5403-9.^[14]

• McKnight, Zoe (22 November 2016). "Author Erin Wunker explains how to be a 'feminist killjoy'". Toronto Star. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
• "The Lucky Seven interview, with Erin Wunker". Open Book. 27 October 2016. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
• "A Wager of Vulnerability: An Interview with Erin Wunker". ROOM Magazine. Retrieved 10 May 2026.

This biography of a Canadian academic is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

• v
• t
• e