{{Short description|Canadian author, editor, and academic}} {{Multiple issues| {{cleanup|reason=too much loosely attached information|date=September 2016}} {{promotional|date=April 2016}} }} {{Infobox person | name = Brett Josef Grubisic | birth_date = 1963 | occupation = author, editor, lecturer }}
'''Brett Josef Grubisic''' (born 1963)<ref>''Queer CanLit: Canadian, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Literature in English''. [[Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library]], 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-7727-6065-4}}.</ref> is a Canadian author, editor, and was a sessional lecturer of the English language at the [[University of British Columbia]] until 2022 when they parted ways.<ref>According to his own blog on the UBC website https://blogs.ubc.ca/brettjgrubisic/2022/04/04/2022/</ref>
== Education == Grubisic obtained both his bachelor and master degrees from the [[University of Victoria]] (B.A., M.A.) and completed his Ph.D. at the [[University of British Columbia]] Department of English Language and Literatures with a thesis on [[Beryl Bainbridge]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grubisic |first=Brett Josef |url=https://webcat.library.ubc.ca/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=3906626 |title=Understanding Beryl Bainbridge |date=2008 |publisher=University of South Carolina Press |isbn=978-1-57003-756-6 |series=Understanding contemporary British literature |location=Columbia, SC}}</ref>
== Career == Grubisic has edited an anthology of [[gay male pulp fiction]], which is a collection of stories that represent lives outside the urban middle-class mainstream. He has also co-edited an anthology of upcoming Canadian writers featuring acclaimed writers such as [[Annabel Lyon]], [[Steven Heighton]], [[Camilla Gibb]], [[Michael Turner (musician)|Michael Turner]], and [[Larissa Lai]]. The anthology aims to redress an absence which the editors claim to have noticed in Canadian literature: sexually frank fiction.
His [[debut novel]], ''The Age of Cities'', was published in 2006<ref>Ghassan Shanti, [http://www.xtra.ca/public/Vancouver/Secretive_and_coded-2271.aspx "Secretive and coded: The half-visible world of Cold War-era queers"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320112438/http://www.xtra.ca/public/Vancouver/Secretive_and_coded-2271.aspx |date=2012-03-20 }}. ''[[Xtra! West]]'', October 25, 2006.</ref> and was a finalist for the [[City of Vancouver Book Award]]. Set predominantly in the late 1950s, the novel-within-a-novel traces the uncertain evolution of a librarian as he struggles between two disparate choices, one urban and the other rural. Grubisic's follow-up novel, ''This Location of Unknown Possibilities'', appeared in 2014.<ref>[http://dailyxtra.com/vancouver/arts-and-entertainment/literary/bookish-prof-and-sexual-adventurer-collide "A bookish prof and a sexual adventurer collide"]. ''[[Xtra!]]'', May 19, 2014.</ref> Satirizing university campus and film production politics, it recounts the comic but transformative experience of two anti-heroic protagonists, Marta Spëk, an English professor, and Jakob Nugent, a film production manager, as they travel from Vancouver to British Columbia's Okanagan Valley to work on a television biopic about [[Lady Hester Stanhope]]. ''Understanding Beryl Bainbridge'', Grubisic's comprehensive study of the British author's fiction, was published in 2008; it examines Bainbridge as a blackly comic novelist as well as a writer of [[historiographic metafiction]].
He has written about films, books, and writers for the ''Toronto Star'', the ''Literary Review of Canada'', the ''[[National Post]]'', the ''[[Vancouver Sun]]'',<ref>[https://vancouversun.com/author/brett-josef-grubisic/ Grubsics official author page]</ref><ref>[https://www.recorder.ca/author/brett-josef-grubisic/ Also found on The Recorder and Times owned by The Sun]</ref> ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', the ''Maclean's'', the ''British Columbia Review'', ''Quill and Quire'' and ''[[Xtra!]]''.
In 2015, he was a jury member for the [[Dayne Ogilvie Prize]], when [[Alex Leslie]] was selected as that year's winner.<ref name="quill">[http://www.quillandquire.com/awards/2015/06/08/alex-leslie-wins-2015-dayne-ogilvie-prize-for-lgbt-emerging-writers/ "Alex Leslie wins 2015 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers"]. ''[[Quill & Quire]]'', June 8, 2015.</ref>
==Bibliography==
===Non-fiction=== *''Understanding Beryl Bainbridge'' (University of South Carolina Press, 2008) *''American Hunks: The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860–1970'' (Arsenal Pulp, 2009) *''National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada'' (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010) *''Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase: Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature'' (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014)
===Fiction=== * ''The Age of Cities'' ([[Arsenal Pulp Press]], 2006) * ''This Location of Unknown Possibilities'' (Now or Never Press, 2014) * ''From Up River and For One Night Only'' (Now or Never Press, 2016) * ''Oldness; Or, the Last-Ditch Efforts of Marcus O'' (Now or Never Press, 2018) * ''My Two-Faced Luck'' ([[Now or Never Publishing]], 2021)
===Anthologies=== * ''Contra/Diction: New Gay Male Fiction''. (Arsenal Pulp, 1998) * ''Carnal Nation: Brave New Sex Fictions'' (Arsenal Pulp, 2000), edited with [[Carellin Brooks]]
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927042221/http://www.arsenalpulp.com/contributorinfo.php?index=70 ''The Age of Cities'']
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