“1-800-Freedom.” Is that a US number or a Canadian one? Poet Sina Queyras’s Expressway – in which that line & number appears – is one of several border-crossing texts we’ll read as we study how contemporary Canadian writers imagine their world through the intersections of colonial and diasporic histories, ecological transformations, and globalization. From the internationally acclaimed Margaret Atwood to the comic Indigenous fiction of Thomas King, the course will cross genres, trouble stereotypes, and queer Canada.