Domenic A. Beneventi is postdoctoral researcher at CELAT-UQAM. He completed a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Literature and Communications at the Université de Sherbrooke (2006-2008). He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the Université de Montréal in 2005. His research interests and recent publications focus on urban writing and representation of poverty and homelessness.