Bill Reynolds
Bill joined the School of Journalism in 2002. Before that, he worked at Eye Weekly as Associate Editor, Music/Comedy/Clubs (1991鈥�1993), Managing Editor (1993鈥�1996), and Editor (1996鈥�2002). His freelance work has appeared in magazines such as The Walrus, Maisonneuve, This Magazine, Canadian Business, and the Calgary Herald鈥檚&苍产蝉辫;Swerve, and newspapers such as the Globe and Mail and the Hamilton Spectator. His first editorial position was managing editor of Vox magazine, a Calgary-based music and arts monthly, 1986鈥�1988.
Bill鈥檚 primary research area is literary journalism. He is an active scholar of literary journalism while remaining a journalism practitioner. He is one of the co-founders of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS) (). In June 2014, he was appointed editor of the association鈥檚 scholarly journal, Literary Journalism Studies ().
Public Lecture, 鈥淪ounds of the Times鈥� series, 鈥淐alculating the Incalculable: The Influence of John Coltrane鈥檚&苍产蝉辫;A Love Supreme on Rock Music,鈥� February 16, 2017, Imperial Pub, Toronto.
鈥淭eaching Magazine Editing: Part Art, Part Science, Part Craft,鈥� in Abrahamson, David and Prior-Miller, Marcia R. (eds.), The Future of the Magazine Form: Research Perspectives and Prospects, New York: Routledge, 2014, 480鈥�90.
Life Real Loud: John Lefebvre, Neteller and the Revolution in Online Gambling (Toronto: ECW Press, 2014).
鈥淲hat a Feeling!鈥� The Walrus, July鈥揂ugust, 2014, 5鈥�6.
鈥淐ome as You Are,鈥� Maisonneuve, Spring 2014, 16鈥�18.
鈥淢agic Realism with Bullets: Charles Bowden and Ciudad Ju谩rez,鈥� in Richard Keeble and John Tulloch (eds.), Global Literary Journalism: Exploring the Journalistic Imagination, Volume 2 (New York: Peter Lang, 2014), 247鈥�260.
鈥溾�楪reenwich Village at Night鈥� and Mary McCarthy鈥檚 Immersion Journalism,鈥� in Richard Keeble and John Tulloch (eds.), Global Literary Journalism: Exploring the Journalistic Imagination, Volume 2 (New York: Peter Lang, 2014), 183鈥�197.
鈥淭he Missing Link in Literary Journalism: What Exactly Is the Editor鈥檚 Role?鈥� Literary Journalism 7.1 (Winter 2013), 7, 10.
鈥淔rom Cold War Cultural Critic to Mocking Liberals: Canadian Writer-Editor Robert Fulford鈥檚 Long Journey,鈥� in Richard Keeble and John Tulloch (eds.), Global Literary Journalism: Exploring the Journalistic Imagination (New York: Peter Lang, 2012), 269鈥�284.
鈥淥n the Road to Gonzo: Hunter S. Thompson鈥檚 Early Literary Journalism, 1961鈥�70,鈥� Literary Journalism Studies, Spring 2012, 51鈥�84. .
John S. Bak and Bill Reynolds (eds.), Literary Journalism Across the Globe: Journalistic Traditions and Transnational Influences (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011).
鈥淲heels of Misfortune: Live by the Bike, Die by the Bike, and All the Dodging and Arguing in Between,鈥� Toronto Standard, November 11, 2011. .
鈥淓xorcism at Ground Zero,鈥� The Walrus, July鈥揂ugust, 2011, 17鈥�20. .
鈥淕eared Up: On the Road to Two-wheeled Transcendence,鈥� in Moira Farr and Ian Pearson (eds.), Cabin Fever: The Best New Canadian Non-fiction (Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2009), 277鈥�298. Originally published in The Walrus, June 2008, 54鈥�64.
鈥淩ecovering the Peculiar Life and Times of Tom Hedley and of Canadian New Journalism,鈥� Literary Journalism Studies, Spring 2009, 79鈥�104. .