Short Bio: Paul Litt is cross-appointed between the Department of History and the School of Canadian Studies at 杏吧原创 University, and is a past Director of the Public History MA program. His research interests centre on the intersection of culture, nationalism and the mass media in twentieth-century Canada. He has published on Canadian cultural nationalism, cultural policy, and public history, and taught upper year history courses on English-Canadian nationalism, tourism, and the media in politics. Paul has worked for the Ontario Heritage Foundation (now the Ontario Heritage Trust), the province鈥檚 lead heritage agency, been a policy advisor at the Ontario Ministry of Culture, and conducted a variety of history projects on a contract basis.
Research: 鈥淐anadian democracy is dysfunctional, and things are only going to get worse,鈥澛爄Politics聽Insight.聽(co-authored with Adil Sayeed), April 23, 2012; Elusive Destiny: The Political Vocation of John Napier Turner,聽Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011; 鈥淭he Cult of Nation and the Gnat of Culture,鈥澛燗cadiensis聽XXXVIII, 2 (November, 2009) 150-58; 鈥淭rudeaumania: Participatory Democracy in the Mass-Mediated Nation,鈥澛燙anadian Historical Review, 89, 1 (March, 2008); 鈥淪tate Investigation and Support for the Book,鈥� in Carole Gerson and Jacques Michon, eds.,聽History of the Book in Canada, Volume III, 1918-1980, (Toronto/Montreal: University of Toronto Press/Les Presses de l鈥橴niversit茅 de Montr茅al, 2007).