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Drew McEwan

Drew McEwan

Assistant Professor (Limited Term Faculty)
EducationPhD
OfficeSHE-576, Sally Horsfall Eaton Centre for Studies in Community Health
Areas of ExpertiseMad Studies; Disability Studies; Queer and Trans Studies; Rhetoric; Literature.

Dr. Drew McEwan researches and writes on rhetorical and cultural representations of madness, disability, and transness from a position of lived experience. Her teaching also focuses on these areas, with a specific interest in close analysis of the forms of normative social harms, and the autonomous uses of language for response from positions of marginalization. Her academic work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, Canadian Literature, The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly and the anthology Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health. She is also the author of the poetry collections Repeater, If Pressed, and Tours, Variously.

Teaching

Books (Poetry)

  • McEwan. Drew. (2025). Tours, Variously. Talon Books.
  • McEwan, Drew. (2017) If Pressed. Book*hug. 
  • McEwan, Drew. (2012) Repeater. Book*hug.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters 

  • McEwan, Drew. (Accepted and Forthcoming) “Difficult Patients, Difficult Poems: Madness and the Rhetorics of Difficulty,” The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. 
  • McEwan, Drew. (Accepted and Forthcoming). “The Mad Queer Time of bill bissett’s Lunarian Autobiographies.” Canadian Literature. 
  • McEwan, Drew. (2025). “Mad Trans Difficulty: The Fifth Wound and Transfeminine Impasses.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 12(2). 178–189.
  •  McEwan, Drew. (2023). “Toward an Obsessive-Compulsive Madtime." Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. 12(2): 31-50.
  • McEwan, Drew. (2019). “Toward a Poetics of Stuckness: Poetry, Mental Disability, and Crisis.” Imaginary Safe House. Roxanne Bennett, Ally Flemming, Shane Neilson (eds.). Frog Hollow Press.
  • McEwan, Drew. (2018). “Seeing Words, Hearing Voices: Hannah Weiner, Dora García, and the Poetic Performance of Radical Dis/humanism.” Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health. Elizabeth J. Donaldson (ed.). Palgrave MacMillan.