Robert Zacharias is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of English at York University in Toronto, where his research interests include Canadian literature, Mennonite writing, and the spatial politics of literary study. His publications include Reading Mennonite Writing: A Study in Minor Transnationalism (Penn State UP), shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian criticism, and Rewriting the Break Event: Mennonites and Migration in Canadian Literature (U Manitoba P); and, as editor, In Search of a Mennonite Imagination: Key Texts in Mennonite Literary Criticism (Canadian Mennonite UP); After Identity: Mennonite Writing in North America (Penn State UP); and, with Smaro Kamboureli, Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies (Wilfrid Laurier UP).