Peter C. van Wyck

I am a Montréal writer, researcher, graduate program director, and professor of communication and media studies at Concordia University in Montréal. My scholarly work is widely interdisciplinary, but has abiding interests in the theoretical and practical relations between culture, nature, environment, landscape and memory.

My most recent book, The Highway of the Atom (McGill-Queen's University Press) – winner of the 2011 Gertrude J. Robinson book award from the Canadian Communication Association – is a theoretical and archival investigation concerning the material and cultural history of uranium production in the North of Canada.

I also wrote Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat (University of Minnesota Press, 2005), and Primitives in the Wilderness: Deep Ecology and the Missing Human Subject (State University of New York Press, 1997).

I am now working on the third book of what has emerged as a nuclear trilogy – The Angel Turns: Memos for the end of the Holocene. See my faculty webpage at Concordia for more writings and projects.

Contact Information:

Peter C. van Wyck
Professor of Communication Studies
Media Studies Graduate Program Director
Department of Communication Studies
7141 Sherbrooke Street, West, CJ 4.327
Concordia University
Montréal, Québec H4B 1R6
Office: (514) 848-2424 x2561
Fax: (514) 848-4257