Joel Faber

I am the Lead Editor for Imprint, an annual literary and visual arts magazine based in Toronto, Ontario. My writing for Imprint explores the stories and frameworks we use to imagine our relationships.

I also work as an independent academic editor—most recently on The Social, Aesthetic, and Medical Implications of Performing Shame (Routledge, 2023). See my portfolio and editorial services page for more information.

My Ph.D. thesis shows how fresh representations of women’s friendships in early modern English literature (c. 1550-1650) critiqued and expanded the discourse of ideal friendship, providing new models largely overlooked by the modern scholarly conversation.

I’m continuing my work in this area as a Fellow at the Centre for Renaissance & Reformation Studies at the University of Toronto. Read “Spaces that Want Friends,” a paper I wrote about seeking friendship in early modern gardens, here.