Connor Byrne has Ph.D. in English literature from Dalhousie University, where he completed a dissertation examining depictions of the city in early twentieth-century British and American literature. His research interests include modernism, modernist literary theory, urban studies, theories of everyday life, and more recently the music of Joanna Newsom.

Dr Byrne has taught widely in both English and Writing Studies departments at a variety of Canadian post-secondary institutions, including UBC’s School of Journalism, Writing, and Media. Within the Media Studies and Political Science, Philosophy, Economics streams in CAP, Dr Byrne’s courses focus on academic and literary urbanism, technology studies, science and speculative fiction, and the foundations of research-oriented writing.