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Summer/Fall 2009: Copy Editor, Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation

University of Guelph

Cory Lavender is a PhD student in English at the University of Guelph. His research looks at the Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia towards the end of the eighteenth century. His focus is on the environmental racism that they suffered and how they utilized the Nova Scotian landscape as a platform upon which to resist racial injustice.

Improvisation implies a deep connection between the personal and the communal, self and world. A “good” improviser successfully navigates musical and institutional boundaries and the desire for self-expression, pleasing not only herself but the listener as well.

– Rob Wallace