CanLit Scholars

Email:b.almon@ualberta.ca

Phone:(780)492-3258

Address:University of Alberta, 3-5 Humanities Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E5, Canada

Institution:University of Alberta

Bio:Bert Almon teaches modern literature and creative writing at the University of Alberta.

Fields of Interest:(21st Century) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Criticism) (Diaspora Studies) (Life Writing) (Poetry)

Email:cascabelnon@gmail.com

Phone:34 651607004

Website:http://webpages.ull.es/users/filina/

Address:University La Laguna Tenerife spain

Institution:ULL La Laguna

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Asian-Canadian) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Fiction) (Historical Fiction) (Regionalism) (Satire) (Short Stories) (Women's Writing)

Email:jandrews@unb.ca

Phone:506-458-7403

Fax:506-453-5069

Website:http://www.unbf.ca/arts/english/faculty_cvs/cv_jandrews.htm

Address:Room #247, Carleton Hall, Department of English, UNB, P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3

Institution:University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Bio:I have just finished a SSHRC-funded manuscript for the University of Toronto Press titled -In the Belly of a Laughing God: Humour and Irony in the Work of Contemporary Native North American Women Poets-. The book includes analyses of the poetry of Joy Harjo, Wendy Rose, Louise Halfe, Kim Blaeser, Marilyn Dumont, Jeannette Armstrong, and Marie Annharte Baker. I am beginning work on a co-authored book with Percy Walton that explores the relationship between television and fashion in a North American context.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Feminism) (Fiction) (First Nations) (History) (Maritime) (Multicultural) (Multimedia) (Parody) (Poetry) (Satire) (Transnationalism)

Email:gmb@interchange.ubc.ca

Website:http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/gmbaxter

Address:University of British Columbia, English Department, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Gisèle M. Baxter lives in Vancouver, and has been a sessional lecturer in the English Department at UBC since 1997.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Children's) (Fiction) (Speculative Fiction) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:baxterl@uoguelph.ca

Address:50 Pearl Street North, Hamilton, Ontario, L8R 2Y8, Canada

Institution:University of Guelph

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (British) (Contemporary) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Films)

Email:tblackmo@uwo.ca

Phone:519-661-2111 x.88513

Fax:519-661-3506

Website:http://www.fims.uwo.ca/whoswho/facultypage.htm?PeopleId=3669

Address:University of Western Ontario, North Campus Building Room 240,  London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada

Institution:University of Western Ontario

Bio:Tim Blackmore writes about popular culture (comics, graphic novels, film, animation and anime, SF) and war (War X: Human Extensions in Battlespace, U of T 2005). He teaches courses in war, popular culture, trauma, memory and technology.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Art) (Culture) (Fiction) (Films) (Science Fiction) (Speculative Fiction) (Trauma Studies) (War)

Email:jennifer.blair@uottawa.ca

Address:Department of English, University of Ottawa 70 Laurier Ave. E, Rm 338 Ottawa ON K2P 0G7

Institution:University of Ottawa

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (21st Century) (Architecture) (Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Exploration) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Gay & Lesbian) (Historical Fiction) (History) (Language) (Politics) (Postcolonial) (Settler Writing)

Email:briggsm@interchange.ubc.ca

Phone:(604)822-4088

Fax:(604)822-6906

Address:University of British Columbia, Buchanan Tower 3rd Floor, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Marlene Briggs teaches at the University of British Columbia.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Historical Fiction) (History) (Life Writing) (Trauma Studies) (War)

Email:calderon@sfu.ca

Address:Department of French, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6

Institution:Simon Fraser University

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Culture) (Films) (France) (Francophone) (Gay & Lesbian) (Multicultural) (Quebec) (Transnationalism)

Email:penelope.cormier@mail.mcgill.ca

Address:5894, rue de la Roche, Montréal, Quebec, H2S 2C7, Canada

Institution:McGill University

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (France) (Maritime) (Postcolonial) (Quebec) (Regionalism)

Email:lisa.coulthard@ubc.ca

Address:University of British Columbia, Suite 2354A Brock Hall Annex, 1874 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Fields of Interest:(21st Century) (Culture) (Films) (Multimedia)

Email:tcowan@ualberta.ca

Phone:780-454-8287

Fax:780-492-8243

Address:Department of English & Film Studies 3-5 Humanities Centre University of Alberta Edmonton, AB T6G2E5

Institution:U of Alberta

Bio:T.L. Cowan's Ph.D. dissertation is entitled "Vox Populi: The Genealogies, Cultures, and Politics of Spoken Word Performance in Canada." Her research is energized by interests in feminist, gender, and queer studies as well as in theories of cultural production, Canadian literary culture, and poetics and literary performance in Canada. Her upcoming project is a major study entitled, "Viscera & Ephemera: Feminist Grass-Roots Performance in Canada 1983-2008." T.L. is also a spoken word/performance artist with a lively performance and curating practice. She is currently working with several Edmonton artists on an collaborative inter-media show of her performance cycle, "The Twisted She Poems."

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Drama & Theatre) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Gay & Lesbian) (Multicultural) (Multimedia) (Poetry) (Politics)

Email:pilar.cuder@dfing.uhu.es

Institution:University of Huelva, Spain

Bio:Pilar Cuder-Domínguez is Associate Professor at the University of Huelva (Spain), where she teaches British and English-Canadian Literature. Her research interests are the intersections of gender, genre, nation, and race. She is the author of Margaret Atwood: A Beginner’s Guide (2003), and the (co)editor of five collections of essays (La mujer del texto al contexto, 1996; Exilios femeninos, 2000; Sederi XI, 2002; Espacios de Género, 2005; and The Female Wits, 2006.). She has been visiting scholar at universities in Canada, the US and the UK: McGill (1997), Dalhousie (1999), Northwestern (2002), Toronto (2004 & 2007), and Cambridge (2006). Her latest publications have discussed the works of writers of Black and Asian ancestry in the UK and Canada. She is currently at work on two (co)edited collections of essays on the Black Atlantic.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Asian-Canadian) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Diaspora Studies) (Drama & Theatre) (Feminism) (Fiction) (First Nations) (Historical Fiction) (Postcolonial) (Science Fiction) (Speculative Fiction) (Transnationalism) (Trauma Studies) (Women's Writing)

Email:2clc2@queensu.ca

Address:6-51 Stanley Street, Kingston, Ontario, K7K 1Y2, Canada

Institution:Queen's University

Bio:Cheryl Cundell recently completed her Ph.D. at Queen's University.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (British) (Colonial) (Exploration) (Nature Writing) (Postcolonial) (Travel)

Email:susiedecoste at gmail dot com

Institution:University of Waterloo

Bio:Susie DeCoste holds an MA in English and Creative Writing from The University of New Brunswick and is currently a PhD student of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo. She is writing a dissertation on the relationships of modernism and feminism to regionalism in Maritime Canadian literature. Her poetry and reviews have appeared in journals such as The Antigonish Review, Arc, CV2, The Danforth Review, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Poetry Ireland Review, The Toronto Quarterly, and Qwerty.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Cultural Geography) (Feminism) (Language) (Long Poem) (Maritime) (Modern) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Regionalism) (Transnationalism) (Women's Writing)

Email:kdobson@mtroyal.ca

Phone:403 440 6468

Fax:403 440 6526

Address:Department of English Mount Royal University 4825 Mount Royal Gate SW Calgary, AB T3E 6K6

Institution:Mount Royal University

Bio:Kit Dobson is an Assistant Professor of Canadian Literature at Calgary's Mount Royal University. His first book, Transnational Canadas: Globalization and Anglo-Canadian Literature was published by Wilfrid Laurier UP in 2009, and recent articles appear or are forthcoming in Studies in Canadian Literature, Canadian Literature, English Studies in Canada, Open Letter, and elsewhere.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Fiction) (Films) (First Nations) (Multicultural) (Poetry) (Politics) (Postcolonial) (Publishing) (Quebec) (Transnationalism)

Email:stephendunning@telus.net

Phone:(604) 888-7511 (3316)

Institution:Trinity Western University

Bio:Stephen Dunning received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Ottawa and his PhD from the University of Cambridge, which he attended as a Commonwealth Scholar. He is the author of The Crisis and the Quest: A Kierkegaardian Reading of Charles Williams (Paternoster Press, 2000) and of a number of articles on modern British and Canadian literature. His current research interests include contemporary conceptions of 19th-century intellectual culture in "dual setting" Canadian and British fiction, and more generally the emergence of secular society. He taught English at Douglas College in Vancouver from 1989 to 2007, and is currently an Associate Professor in the English Department at Trinity Western University.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Children's) (Colonial) (Diaspora Studies) (Mennonite Writers/Writing) (Modern) (North, The) (Postcolonial) (Science Fiction) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:justin.edwards@bangor.ac.uk

Website:http://www.bangor.ac.uk/english/staff/edwards.php

Institution:English Department, University of Wales, Bangor

Bio:Professor and Head of English at the University of Wales, Bangor. I am the author of several books, including Postcolonial Literature (Palgrave 2008), Understanding Jamaica Kincaid (South Carolina 2007), Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic (Iowa U P 2003), Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature (U of Alberta P 2005), Exotic Journeys: Exploring the Erotics of U.S. Travel Literature (UP of New England 2001). I am also the coeditor of Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities (with Douglas Ivison, UTP 2005) and Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing (Signal Books 2006).

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Diaspora Studies) (Postcolonial) (Transnationalism) (Travel)

Email:louise.forsyth@shaw.ca

Phone:(403)242-3040

Fax:(403)242-5006

Address:2034 36 Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2T 2G7, Canada

Bio:Louise H. Forsyth taught for many years and was head of the Department of French at the University of Western Ontario. She then moved to the University of Saskatchewan, where she was Dean of Graduate Studies and Research. She is currently Professor emerita and Adjunct Professor in Languages & Linguistics and Women's & Gender Studies. She has published extensively on Québec writer Nicole Brossard, Québec women playwrights, Writing in the Feminine in Québec, Translation, and francophone theatre in Saskatchewan.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Criticism) (Drama & Theatre) (Feminism) (Gay & Lesbian) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Quebec)

Email:marc.fortin@queensu.ca

Institution:Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

Bio:I am interested in science and literature, and the the connections between biology and culture, theory and object as represented in the works of Canadian writers.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Modern) (Multicultural)

Email:D.Fuller@bham.ac.uk

Website:http://www.beyondthebookproject.org

Address:University of Birmingham, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

Institution:University of Birmingham

Bio:Danielle Fuller is Director, Regional Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. Her publications include articles on Canadian literary cultural production, Atlantic Canadian Literature and the CBC’s “Canada Reads.” Her book, Writing the Everyday: Women’s Textual Communities in Atlantic Canada (McGill-Queen’s U P, 2004) won the 2004 Gabrielle Roy Prize (English-language).  She is currently collaborating with DeNel Rehberg Sedo on an interdisciplinary project, “Beyond the Book: Mass Reading Events and Contemporary Cultures of Reading in the UK, USA and Canada,” (www.beyondthebookproject.org) funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (UK).

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Culture) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Maritime) (Media Studies) (Postcolonial) (Publishing) (Regionalism) (Transnationalism)

Email:rosa.giammanco@inholland.nl

Address:

Institution:INHolland University of Applied Science

Bio:I am currently a teacher trainer at INHolland University of Applied Science (Amsterdam / The Netherlands). In the past I have obtained an MA in TEFL (2007) and an MA in English Language and Culture (2006). My specialization for the latter MA was North American literature. My MA-thesis dealt with Irish-Canadian immigrant literature. Next year (2010) I'll be continuing my studies (next to my job) with a research master. My research will then focus on Japanese-North American female immigrant literature / cultural memory.

As I am still at the beginning of my carreer my list of publications and presentations is still fairly short; I have presented at the IATEFL, the Netherlands Association for American Studies and at a conference at my home institute.

Next to teaching and researching I am also partly responsible for internationalization at my institute, so if anybody would like to set up an exchange programme for students/prospective teachers please feel free to contact me.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Asian) (Asian-American) (Asian-Canadian) (Canadian Studies) (Diaspora Studies) (Postcolonial) (Transnationalism) (Women's Writing)

Email:lisa.grekul@ubc.ca

Phone:250-807-9347

Address:University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus 3333 University Way Kelowna, British Columbia V1V 1V7 Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Originally from St. Paul, Alberta, Lisa Grekul has lived in Mbabane (Swaziland), Toronto, Edmonton, and Vancouver. She completed her B.A. (Hons) and M.A. degrees at the University of Alberta, and she holds a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. Lisa is a creative writer and a literary scholar whose research focuses on Canadian literature (minority/diasporic writers, in particular), other postcolonial literatures, and postcolonial theory. Her first novel, Kalyna’s Song, published by Coteau in 2003, is the coming-of-age story of a third-generation Ukrainian Canadian girl who grows up in northeastern Alberta and southern Africa. Her second book, Leaving Shadows: Literature in English by Canada’s Ukrainians (University of Alberta, 2005), is a critical study of English-language Ukrainian Canadian poetry, drama, fiction, and creative non-fiction. She is currently at work on a SSHRC-funded book and film project, (Con)temporary Nomads: Canadian Autobiography and the Search for Home, which examines "homecoming" narratives by Canadians of Eastern European descent.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Contemporary) (Diaspora Studies) (Fiction) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial) (Transnationalism)

Email:sandra.hobbs@wayne.edu

Address:Wayne State University, 4743 Cass Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, 48201-1201, USA

Institution:Wayne State University

Bio:Sandra Hobbs teaches French and Québécois literature at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

Her main areas of expertise are the Quebec novel since 1960, resistance writing in Quebec during the Quiet Revolution, and the representation of First Nations peoples in Quebec literature.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Criticism) (First Nations) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial) (Quebec)

Email:dee@unbc.ca

Phone:250-960-6641

Fax:250-960-5545

Website:http://scrollpress.com; http//www.unbc.ca/english

Address:University of Northern British Columbia, 3333 University Way, Prince George, British Columbia, V2N 4Z9, Canada

Institution:University of Northern British Columbia

Bio:Dr. Horne teaches creative writing and American Literature at the University of Northern British Columbia. She is the editor of Scroll in Space, an online literary journal dedicated to literary fiction and creative non-fiction (http://scrollinspace.com). She is also the publisher of Scroll Press (http://scrollpress.com) She welcomes submissions to Scroll Press and to Scroll in Space. Please read the guidelines before submitting work.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Contemporary) (Fiction) (Films) (First Nations) (Historical Fiction) (Long Poem) (Modern) (Myth) (Parody) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Publishing) (Women's Writing)

Email:huebenph [at sign goes here] mcmaster [dot goes here] ca

Institution:McMaster University

Bio:Paul Huebener is a PhD candidate in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, where he is researching the cultural and literary construction of time in Canada. He is a co-editor for The Goose, the journal of the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Drama & Theatre) (Ecocriticism) (Fiction) (Nature Writing) (Poetry) (Short Stories)

Email:k.ikas@soz.uni-frankfurt.de

Website:http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/fb3/wagner/ikas.htm

Address:Fb. III, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Robert-Mayer-Str. 5, 60054 Frankfurt a. M. / Germany

Institution:Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Bio:Dr. Karin Ikas, M.A., has studied at the University of Texas at Austin and at Würzburg University, where she received her Ph.D. in English and American Studies, Cultural Studies & Didactics. Her dissertation on “Modern Chicana Literature: An Intercultural Analysis” won the prestigious Daimler Chrysler Foundation’s “Academy Award for Intercultural Studies”. She has conducted postdoctoral work at universities in Australia, South African, the USA and Canada, and is presently research lecturer at the Department for Social Sciences at Frankfurt (M) University where she also holds a teaching position in the Department of English and American Studies. She has published widely on English, Canadian, American, Australian, (Post-)Colonial, Gender and Jewish Studies. Her latest book, prefaced by Homi K. Bhabha and published with Routledge in September 2008, is entitled 'Communicating in the Third Space' (co-edited with Gerhard Wagner). Her other books include 'The Canadian Nation in the Third Millennium' (2009), 'Gender Debat/tl/ed: Gender and War' (2003), 'Chicana Ways' (2002), 'Die zeitgenössische Chicana-Literatur: Eine interkulturelle Untersuchung' (2000), 'U.S Latino Literatures and Cultures: Transnational Perspectives', co-edited with Francisco Lomelí, 'Stories from Down Under', co-edited with David Carter (2004), and 'Violence and Transgression in World Minority Literatures', co-edited with Rüdiger Ahrens, María Herrera-Sobek, Francisco Lomelí (2005). Forthcoming is '"A Nation Forged in Fire": Canadian Literature and the Construction of National Identity'.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Anglo-Saxon) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Feminism) (First Nations) (Food Studies) (Historical Fiction) (Latin America) (Multicultural) (North, The) (Postcolonial) (Settler Writing) (Short Stories) (Transnationalism) (Travel) (War)

Email:douglas.ivison@lakeheadu.ca

Phone:(807)346-7825

Fax:(807)343-8023

Address:Lakehead University, Department of English, Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7B 5E1, Canada

Institution:Lakehead University

Bio:Douglas Ivison is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Lakehead University, and a Research Fellow of Lakehead's Advanced Institute for Globalization and Culture (AIG+C). He is the editor of Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers (Dictionary of Literary Biography 251) (Gale 2002) and co-editor, with Justin D. Edwards, of Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities (UTP 2005), and is on the Advisory Board of Studies in Canadian Literature. His current research interests include the city and urbanism in Canadian and Australian literature and film; contemporary Newfoundland writing; Canadian speculative fiction; and Canadian popular culture.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Cultural Geography) (Culture) (Ecocriticism) (Exploration) (Fiction) (Films) (Historical Fiction) (Maritime) (Modern) (Music) (Postcolonial) (Regionalism) (Science Fiction) (Settler Writing) (Speculative Fiction) (Transnationalism) (Travel) (War)

Email:jirgens@uwindsor.ca

Phone:(519) 253-3000 ext. 2289

Fax:(519) 971-3676

Address:University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4, Canada

Institution:University of Windsor

Bio:Karl Jirgens is a writer, editor, and researcher who teaches contemporary literature and literary theory. He publishes Rampike magazine and serves as Head of the English Department at the University of Windsor, Canada.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Publishing) (Transnationalism)

Email:mjones@uwo.ca

Phone:(519)661-2111 ext. 85783

Fax:(519)661-3776

Address:University of Western Ontario, Department of English, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7, Canada

Institution:University of Western Ontario

Bio:Manina Jones is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. She is co-editor with Marta Dvorak of Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary, co-author with Priscilla L. Walton of Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition, and author of That Art of Difference: Documentary-Collage and English Canadian Writing as well as articles on Canadian literature.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Contemporary) (Feminism) (First Nations) (Historical Fiction) (Life Writing) (Long Poem) (Postcolonial)

Email:maia@interchange.ubc.ca

Address:Department of English, University of British Columbia, #397 - 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Maia Joseph is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on Canadian urban literature, urbanism and regionalism, the ethics and politics of artistic practice, and the interdisciplinary theorization of space and community. Her dissertation examines literary responses to the recent (and ongoing) redevelopment of Vancouver's downtown core.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Asian-Canadian) (Canadian Studies) (Cultural Geography) (Diaspora Studies) (Ecocriticism) (Feminism) (First Nations) (Modern) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Publishing) (Regionalism) (Transnationalism)

Email:anne.l.kaufman@gmail.com

Phone:857-928-3638

Address:Milton Academy, 170 Centre Street, Milton, Massachusetts, 02186, USA

Bio:Anne Kaufman teaches at Bridgewater State College and Milton Academy, both of which are in Massachusetts.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Criticism) (Cultural Geography) (Ecocriticism) (North, The) (Sports Writing)

Email:catherine_khordoc@carleton.ca

Address:Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada

Institution:Carleton University

Bio:Catherine Khordoc is associate professor of French at Carleton University in Ottawa.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Auto/biography) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Diaspora Studies) (Fiction) (France) (Historical Fiction) (Language) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial) (Quebec) (Transnationalism)

Email:alexiskienlen@hotmail.com

Phone:780-988-7292

Website:http://www.alexiskienlen.com

Address:Edmonton, Alberta

Bio:Alexis Kienlen is a writer who currently lives in Edmonton. She released her first book "She dreams in Red" in 2007. Her poetry, fiction, and journalism pieces have appeared in numerous publications across Canada. From 2001-2006, Alexis served as the Literary Editor of Ricepaper Magazine. She has a background in ethnic relations, journalism, rural issues and food secur

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Asian) (Asian-American) (Asian-Canadian) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Children's) (Colonial) (Contemporary) (Cultural Geography) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Films) (First Nations) (Food Studies) (Journalism) (Life Writing) (Modern) (Multicultural) (Nature Writing) (North, The) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Regionalism) (Satire) (Science Fiction) (Short Stories) (South Asian) (Speculative Fiction) (Travel) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:kuesterm@staff.uni-marburg.de

Address:Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 35032 Marburg, Germany

Institution:Philipps-Universität Marburg

Bio:Martin Kuester teaches at the University of Marburg and is Director of its Centre for Canadian Studies. He has written monographs on the Canadian historical novel and on John Milton.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Drama & Theatre) (Fiction) (History) (Mennonite Writers/Writing) (Parody) (Postcolonial)

Email:Maurice.Lamothe@usainteanne.ca

Phone:902 769-2114

Fax:902 769-2930

Address:1695, Route 1, Pointe-de-l'Église, Nova Scotia, B0W 1M0, Canada

Institution:Université Sainte-Anne

Bio:Maurice Lamothe est spécialiste de la chanson populaire contemporaine franco-canadienne. Il a dirigé des travaux subventionnés par le CRSH portant sur la modernité et l'ethnicité la chanson populaire contemporaine. Ses recherches actuelles touchent la chanson franco-canadienne de l'Ouest, son produit et sa pratique. Maurice Lamothe a été directeur du département d'études françaises de l'Université Sainte-Anne pendant plus de dix ans. Il est actuellement doyen des arts et des sciences et directeur de la revue Port Acadie

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Art) (Canadian Studies) (Criticism) (Culture) (Francophone) (Maritime) (Quebec)

Email:je_lamy@yahoo.ca

Institution:UQAM

Bio:Jonathan Lamy est poète, performeur, chargé de cours et étudiant au doctorat interdisciplinaire en sémiologie à l'Université du Québec à Montréal.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Art) (Culture) (First Nations) (Poetry) (Quebec)

Email:Dorothy.Lane@uregina.ca

Phone:(306)585-4465

Fax:(306)585-5267

Address:University of Regina, Luther College, Regina, Saskatchewan, S4S 0A2, Canada

Institution:Luther College, University of Regina

Bio:Dorothy Lane is Professor of English (Luther College) and Head of the English department at the University of Regina. She completed her BA and MA at Carleton University, and her PhD at Queen's University. Her specializations are postcolonial literatures [especially settler writing], Canadian literature, and children's literature. Her most recent scholarship focuses on the pilgrimage paradigm in contemporary travel narratives.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Children's) (Colonial) (Cultural Geography) (Diaspora Studies) (Exploration) (Postcolonial) (Settler Writing) (South Asian) (Travel)

Email:Richard.Lane@viu.ca

Phone:250 753 3245

Fax:250 740 6459

Website:http://web.viu.ca/richardlane/index.htm

Address:Dept. of English 900 Fifth Street Nanaimo, BC, Canada, V9R 5S5

Institution:Vancouver Island University

Bio:Dr. Richard J. Lane teaches in the English Department at Vancouver Island University, Canada. He is the author or editor of nine academic books, his most recent publication being a co-edited collection of essays called Image Technologies in Canadian Literature: Narrative, Film, and Photography (co-edited with Carmen Concilio, Lang, 2009). Lane has published widely on contemporary theory, continental philosophy and Canadian literature, including the books The Postcolonial Novel (Polity, 2006), Fifty Key Literary Theorists (Routledge, 2006), Reading Walter Benjamin: Writing Through The Catastrophe (MUP, 2005), Functions of the Derrida Archive: Philosophical Receptions (Akademiai Kiado, 2003), Contemporary British Fiction (Polity, 2003), Beckett and Philosophy (Palgrave, 2002), Mrs Dalloway: Literary Masterpieces (Gale, 2001), and Jean Baudrillard (Routledge 2000; second edition 2009; Japanese and Korean translations available). Lane's forthcoming book is A History of Canadian Literature, with Routledge; he also currently writes the 'Canada' section for The Year's Work in English Studies (OUP & The English Association). Lane is director of The Literary Theory Research Group which runs the Seminar for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Vancouver Island University.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Art) (Auto/biography) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Drama & Theatre) (Fiction) (First Nations) (History) (Modern) (Postcolonial) (Settler Writing) (Trauma Studies)

Email:leckerlink@aol.com

Phone:514-830-4818

Fax:514-483-1644

Address:Department of English McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, QC H3A 2T6 Canada

Institution:McGill University

Bio:Robert Lecker is Greenshields Professor of English at McGill University, where he specializes in Canadian literature. Lecker was the co-editor of the critical journal Essays on Canadian Writing from 1975-2004, and the copublisher at ECW Press from 1977-2003. In his work at ECW Lecker was responsible for acquiring and producing hundreds of works of criticism devoted to Canadian literature, and, with his partner, Jack David, he conceived of the multi-volume reference series entitle The Annotated Bibliography of Canada’s Major Authors (8 vols.) and, with Ellen Quigley, Canadian Writers and Their Works: Essays on Form, Context, and Development (24 vols.) Lecker extended his editorial work through the creation of several anthologies, most recently Open Country: Canadian Literature in English (2007). He also acted as the general editor for Twayne’s Masterworks Series and Twayne’s World Authors series (Canada) and was also the general editor of G.K. Hall’s Critical Essays on World Literature series. In 2004 he established the Robert Lecker Agencyin Montreal. Lecker is the author of numerous books and articles, including On the Line (1982), Robert Kroetsch (1986), Another I (1988), Making It Real (1995), Dr. Delicious (2006) and The Cadence of Civil Elegies (2006). In 1985 Lecker received the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching at McGill University.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Poetry) (Politics) (Publishing) (Short Stories)

Email:lindy.ledohowski@gmail.com

Website:http://english.uwaterloo.ca/Ledohowski.html

Address:St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo 290 Westmount Road North Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G3

Institution:St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo

Bio:Lindy is an assistant professor, teaching Canadian literature at St. Jerome's in the University of Waterloo.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Criticism) (Diaspora Studies) (Education) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial) (Regionalism) (Transnationalism) (Trauma Studies)

Email:ben@roomofbensown.net

Website:http://roomofbensown.net/

Bio:Benjamin Lefebvre, Ph.D., is a full-time writer, editor, and researcher living in Waterloo, Ontario, and Director of the L.M. Montgomery Research Group. He recently edited L.M. Montgomery's rediscovered final book, The Blythes Are Quoted (Viking Canada, 2009), co-edited Anne's World: A New Century of Anne of Green Gables (University of Toronto Press, 2010), and wrote the introduction to a new edition of Montgomery's novel A Tangled Web (Dundurn Press, 2009).

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Criticism) (Culture) (Life Writing) (Multicultural) (Quebec) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:mariaj.hernaez@unirioja.es

Phone:011 34 941 20 61 12

Fax:+34 941 299 419

Website:http://www.unirioja.es

Address:Edificio de Filologías, Universidad de La Rioja, C/ San José de Calasanz, s/n, 26004 Logroño, La Rioja, Spain.

Institution:English Department, University of La Rioja, Spain

Bio:María Jesús Hernáez Lerena teaches American and Canadian literatures at the University of La Rioja (Spain). Her main field of research was short story theory for a number of years and she has written three books on the short story: Exploración de un género literario: los relatos breves de Alice Munro (1998), Story Time: Exercises in the Study of American Literature for Advanced Students of English (1999), and Short Story World: The Nineteenth-Century American Masters (2003). She has published articles on Sara Orne Jewett, Wyndham Lewis, Carol Shields, Alice Munro, Barbara Gowdy, Katherine Govier, Douglas Glover, etc., in Spanish, English, and Canadian journals. She has been editor of Journal of English Studies (University of La Rioja). Her most recent publication is the co-edition of the book Canon Disorders: Gendered perspectives on Literature and Film in Canada and the United States  (University of La Rioja/La Laguna, 2007). María Jesús Hernáez introduced the Canadian Studies in her university and teaches Canadian literature within a doctoral program awarded the Quality Distinction for Doctoral Programs by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. She is in charge of the mobility program for Canadian visiting scholars within that program. She is now doing research on the literature and culture of Newfoundland.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Cultural Geography) (Ecocriticism) (Exploration) (Fiction) (Historical Fiction) (Maritime) (Nature Writing) (Parody) (Postcolonial) (Regionalism) (Short Stories) (Trauma Studies)

Email:mmlo@pdx.edu

Phone:(503)725-9411

Address:724 SW Harrison, NH 405, Portland, Oregon, 97201, USA

Institution:Portland State University

Bio:Marie Lo is an associate professor of English at Portland State University. She is completing her manuscript, "Recognition's Field of Vision: The Visible Subject of Asian North America," which traces the cross-fertilization of US and Canadian racial discourses in Asian North American cultural production.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Asian-American) (Asian-Canadian) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Feminism) (Media Studies) (Multicultural) (Multimedia) (Postcolonial) (Transnationalism)

Email:clousley@wlu.ca

Phone:(519)884-0710 ext.2197

Address:Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3C5, Canada

Institution:Wilfrid Laurier University

Bio:Cheryl Lousley is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of English at the University of Leeds (UK) and a lecturer in English at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Cultural Geography) (Ecocriticism) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Multicultural) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Transnationalism)

Email:mluger@interchange.ubc.ca

Address:University of British Columbia, English Department, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Culture) (Poetry) (Trauma Studies) (War)

Email:martens@mx.uni-saarland.de

Phone:+49-681-894407

Fax:+49-681-302-2710

Website:http://klausmartens.com

Address:Prof. Dr. Klaus Martens FR 4.3 PF 150151 Universitaet des Saarlandes Im Stadtwald D-66041 Saarbruecken Germany D-66041

Institution:Universitaet des Saarlandes, Germany

Bio:Prof. of English & American Studies, Chair, Centre for Canadian and Anglo American Studies (CCAC), author of many scholarly books and articles, F.P. Grove specialist (five monographs), a published poet and noted literary translator.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Art) (Auto/biography) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Cultural Geography) (Culture) (Europe) (First Nations) (Folklore) (German) (Historical Fiction) (Language) (Long Poem) (Modern) (Multicultural) (Music) (Nature Writing) (North, The) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Science Fiction)

Email:tvmason@dal.ca

Address:Department of English, Dalhousie University, 6135 University Avenue, Room 1186, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4P9

Institution:Dalhousie University

Bio:As a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University, Travis V. Mason is studying literary responses (and resistance) to science in Canada from the early 19th to mid-20th century. Articles on Canadian, postcolonial, and ecological literature have appeared in ISLE (with Michael Healey and Laurie Ricou), Mosaic, Canadian Literature, Kunapippi, Studies in Canadian Literature, and the collection Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Cultural Geography) (Culture) (Ecocriticism) (Historical Fiction) (Long Poem) (Nature Writing) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Regionalism) (Short Stories) (War)

Email:katherine.mcleod@utoronto.ca

Institution:University of Toronto

Bio:Katherine McLeod is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto where she studies issues of performance and Canadian poetry.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Drama & Theatre) (Films) (Long Poem) (Media Studies) (Multicultural) (Music) (North, The) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Transnationalism)

Email:moosafb@mcmaster.ca

Address:Department of English and Cultural Studies, CNH 321, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4L8

Institution:McMaster University

Bio:Farah Moosa is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Asian-Canadian) (Diaspora Studies) (Feminism) (First Nations) (Multicultural) (Myth) (Postcolonial) (South Asian) (Transnationalism)

Email:lmorra@ubishops.ca

Phone:(819)822-9600 ext. 2872

Address:Bishop's University, 2600 College Street, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1M 0C8, Canada

Institution:Bishop's University

Bio:Linda Morra is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Bishop's University. She completed her book, Corresponding Influence: Selected Letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth (2006), while holding a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at UBC (2002-2004). With Professor Deanna Reder, she is currently co-editing an anthology titled, Troubling Tricksters, forthcoming with WLUP (2010).

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Art) (Asian-Canadian) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Criticism) (Cultural Geography) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Feminism) (Fiction) (First Nations) (History) (Life Writing) (Myth) (Nature Writing) (North, The) (Postcolonial) (Publishing) (Quebec) (Regionalism) (Satire) (Short Stories) (Transnationalism) (Trauma Studies) (Women's Writing)

Email:forgotten.english@gmail.com

Institution:University of Oxford

Bio:Kate Morris is currently reading for the D.Phil in Modern Languages at the University of Oxford. She holds an M.Litt degree in Modernities from the University of Glasgow and an undergraduate honours degree in English and Art History from McGill University. She has published in Octopus, Invisible Cultures, Canadian Literature and a number of online magazines.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Architecture) (Art) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Cultural Geography) (Culture) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Films) (France) (Francophone) (Modern) (North, The) (Quebec) (Short Stories) (Speculative Fiction)

Email:munoz_theresa@hotmail.com

Phone:+44 (0)1387 702001

Address:Rutherford/McCowan Building, Crichton University Campus, Dumfries, DG1 4ZL

Institution:University of Glasgow

Bio:Theresa Muñoz was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1983. She has published poetry in various magazines in the United Kingdom and Canada. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, Dumfries. She is a regular contributor to Scotland's Sunday Herald‘s book pages and the Scottish Review of Books.

Fields of Interest:(21st Century) (American) (Auto/biography) (British) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Language) (Life Writing) (Long Poem) (Poetry) (Politics)

Email:jmurray@univ-fcomte.fr

Address:Université de Franche-Comté, Faculté de lettres (UFR SLHS), 30 rue Mégevand, 25000 Besançon, France

Institution:Université de Franche-Comté

Bio:Jennifer Murray teaches American and Canadian literature at the University of Franche-Comté, France. Her research is currently centred on psychoanalytic readings of Canadian short stories, in particular, the work of Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood. Short stories from the American south also come within her particular field of interest.

Her articles have been published in Canadian Literature, Studies in Canadian Literature, The Journal of the Short Story in English and Etudes anglaises.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Canadian Studies) (Criticism) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Historical Fiction) (Life Writing) (Short Stories) (Women's Writing)

Email:saleema.nawaz@gmail.com

Address:4-64 Fairmount Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec, H2T 2M2, Canada

Bio:Saleema Nawaz is a writer based in Montreal. Her debut short-story collection was published by Freehand Books in Fall 2008.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Fiction) (First Nations) (Multicultural) (Quebec) (Short Stories) (Women's Writing)

Email:panofsky@ryerson.ca

Phone:416 979 5000 ext. 6150

Fax:416 979 5110

Address:Department of English, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3

Institution:Ryerson University

Bio:Ruth Panofsky is Professor of English at Ryerson University. She teaches courses on Canadian literature and culture, authorship and publishing, and women's writing, as well as a graduate seminar in Communication Research and Practice. Her primary areas of research include Canadian Literature and Culture; Authorship; Book History and Print Culture; Editorial and Textual Studies; and Jewish Canadian Women Writers. She is also a published poet.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Culture) (Life Writing) (Multicultural) (Poetry) (Publishing) (Women's Writing)

Email:npedri@mun.ca

Phone:(709)737-8067

Address:Memorial University of Newfoundland, Department of English, Room AA3056, St. John's, Newfoundland, A1C 5S7, Canada

Institution:Memorial University of Newfoundland

Bio:I am a comparatist who works on the use of photography (and other visual documents) in contemporary fiction. A particular field of interest is auto/biographical narratives and historical fiction.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Auto/biography) (Contemporary) (Historical Fiction) (Life Writing) (Multimedia) (Postcolonial)

Email:odfpercy@ucalgary.ca

Address:Dept. of English, University of Calgary 2500 University Dr. NW Calgary, AB T2N 1N4

Institution:University of Calgary

Bio:Owen Percy recently earned his PhD in the Department of English at the University of Calgary where he is currently teaching. 

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Fiction) (First Nations) (Historical Fiction) (History) (Language) (Long Poem) (Modern) (Multicultural) (Multimedia) (Music) (Parody) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Publishing) (Quebec) (Regionalism) (Satire) (Transnationalism) (War)

Email:Russell.Perkin@smu.ca

Phone:(902)420-5714

Fax:(902)420-5110

Website:http://husky1.smu.ca/~rperkin/

Address:Saint Mary's University, 923 Robie Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3C3, Canada

Institution:Saint Mary's University

Bio:J. Russell Perkin teaches English at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. He is primarily a Victorianist, but has also worked extensively on Northrop Frye and published numerous reviews of Canadian fiction, especially from the Atlantic region.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Fiction)

Email:tpickens@ucla.edu

Address:350 Humanities Building Box 951536 Los Angeles, California, 90095-1536, USA

Institution:University of California, Los Angeles

Bio:Theri Pickens graduated from Princeton University in 2005. Currently, she's a doctoral student at UCLA in the department of Comparative Literature. She's interested in Arab American literature, African American literature, theory and disability studies.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Contemporary) (Cultural Geography) (Culture) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Modern) (Multicultural) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Satire) (Short Stories) (Speculative Fiction)

Email:bpratt@uwo.ca

Institution:The University of Western Ontario

Bio:Brooke Pratt has a PhD in English from the University of Western Ontario. She specializes in Canadian literature and literary history; her doctoral dissertation focuses on representations of abandoned space in Canadian writing from Confederation to the contemporary period.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Architecture) (Canadian Studies) (Cultural Geography) (Ecocriticism) (Fiction) (History) (Poetry) (Short Stories)

Email:sprutean@uwo.ca

Address:University of Western Ontario, French Department, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7, Canada

Institution:University of Western Ontario

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Diaspora Studies) (France) (Francophone) (Publishing) (Quebec) (Travel)

Email:ravv@videotron.ca

Phone:(514)848-2065

Fax:(514)848-4541

Address:Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1M8, Canada

Institution:Concordia University

Bio:Norman Ravvin is a critic, fiction writer, and journalist. His essays on Canadian and American Jewish literature are collected in A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity and Memory (McGill-Queen’s). The essays included in this volume focus on such writers as Eli Mandel, Leonard Cohen, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Mordecai Richler, and Chava Rosenfarb. A House of Words also considers the role of multiculturalism, postcolonialism, and the Holocaust in the reception of Canadian writing. He is co-editor of The Canadian Jewish Studies Reader (2004), which includes two essays by him, focusing on Eli Mandel and Matt Cohen. His most recent fiction publication is the novel, Lola by Night (2003), which is out in Serbian translation . Other books include Hidden Canada: An Intimate Travelogue (2001), the novel, Café des Westens, which appeared in 1991, and his story collection, Sex, Skyscrapers, and Standard Yiddish (1997). He is the editor of Not Quite Mainstream: Canadian Jewish Short Stories (2001) and Great Stories of the Sea (1999). Recent articles include an essay on “memory tourism” in Poland in Canadian Literature, a chapter on Jewish identity in a collection called Religion and Ethnicity in Canada, and an introduction to the reissue of Gwethalyn Graham’s Earth and High Heaven from Cormorant Books. He is at work on a novel set in Poland, and a study of postwar Jewish identity in Canada and South Africa. As general editor of a series in association with Red Deer Press at the University of Calgary and the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, he oversees the publication of books dedicated to Canadian Jewish writing and history. Among the publications from the Institute is Mordecai & Me: An Appreciation of a Kind, by Joel Yanofsky. Norman Ravvin acted as editor of this study, which won a number of awards in Canada and the United States. The forthcoming title from the Institute and Red Deer Press is Henry Kreisel's 1948 novel, The Rich Man, with a new introduction by Ravvin. He also oversees two chapbook series published by the Institute, which focus on Canadian Jewish literature and history. The titles in these series include a long short story by Toronto writer Cary Fagan, and a translation of a document dealing with early Montreal Jewish history, by Ira Robinson. His fiction and non-fiction pieces have appeared in Prism International, The West Coast Review, The Wascana Review, Prairie Fire, Cité Libre, Western Living, Parchment, The Forward in New York City, and the Nelson Introduction to Literature, as well as on CBC Radio. Before joining the Department of Religion at Concordia University, he taught literature and creative writing at the University of New Brunswick and at the University of Toronto. Norman Ravvin’s teaching interests include Canadian Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies, Religion and Literature, Ethics, Contemporary Canadian and American Literature, memoir and creative writing.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Canadian Studies) (Culture) (Europe) (Fiction) (History) (Multicultural) (Quebec) (War)

Email:srhodesmx@yahoo.ca

Phone:613 234 7304

Address:408 Preston Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 4M9, Canada

Bio:Shane Rhodes lives in Ottawa. Winner of an Alberta Book Award and the Archibald Lampman Award, Shane’s poetry is featured in the anthologies New Canadian Poetry, Breathing Fire II, and Seminal: Canada’s Gay Male Poets. Shane' s most recent book is The Bindery, published by NeWest Press in 2007.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Canadian Studies) (Gay & Lesbian) (Long Poem) (Modern) (Poetry) (Postcolonial)

Email:c.rifkind@uwinnipeg.ca

Phone:(204)786-9198

Address:University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 2E9, Canada

Institution:University of Winnipeg

Bio:Candida Rifkind is an Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg. She works on modernisms and anti-modernisms in Canada, popular and political writing, and graphic narratives. Her book, Comrades and Critics: Women, Literature, and the Left in 1930s Canada, was recently published by the University of Toronto Press. She is currently working on a manuscript about serial fiction and modern Canada and her next project is on graphic narratives of political witness.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Art) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Criticism) (Culture) (Feminism) (Films) (Modern) (Politics) (Publishing) (Transnationalism)

Email:gillian.roberts@nottingham.ac.uk

Phone:+44 (0)115 846 6953

Fax:+44 (0)115 951 4270

Website:http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/American/People/gillian.roberts

Address:School of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 1AA, UK

Institution:Leeds Metropolitan University

Bio:Gillian Roberts is currently Lecturer in North American Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham. Her research focuses on literary prizes and Canadian writers and representations of the Canada-US border.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Culture) (Postcolonial)

Email:jason.rotstein@gmail.com, poetry@jewishquarterly.org

Website:http://www.kilimag.com, www.jewishquarterly.org

Address:48 Saguenay Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5N 2Y7, Canada

Institution:Visiting Scholar, Massey College, University of Toronto

Bio:Jason Rotstein is Poetry Editor of the Jewish Quarterly and Associate Editor of Kilimanjaro, an art magazine, based in London, England. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at Massey College at the University of Toronto and his book reviews are regularly featured in Canada in the Globe and Mail and the Literary Review of Canada.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Art) (Auto/biography) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Education) (Europe) (Exploration) (Fiction) (Films) (German) (Historical Fiction) (History) (Journalism) (Language) (Life Writing) (Modern) (Multicultural) (Parody) (Poetry) (Politics) (Publishing) (Regionalism) (Short Stories)

Email:aaxws@nottingham.ac.uk

Address:School of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, Floor B Trent Building, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK

Institution:University of Nottingham, UK

Bio:Will Smith is a PhD student at the University of Nottingham, writing his thesis on contemporary literary narratives of Toronto. As such, his core focus is on ideas of the urban in Canadian literature. He has taught on undergraduate courses in Canadian cultural studies and the American intellectual tradition. His published and forthcoming articles relate to contemporary Canadian and British literature.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Cultural Geography) (Fiction) (Films) (Maritime) (Poetry) (Regionalism) (Transnationalism)

Email:klsn@shaw.ca

Address:1896 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1, Canada

Institution:University of British Columbia

Bio:Kim Snowden teaches women's studies and literature at UBC. She is the co-founder and chief co-editor of thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory and culture.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Art) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Education) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Films) (Media Studies) (Modern) (Postcolonial) (Publishing) (Short Stories) (South Asian)

Email:ssorensen@cmu.ca

Phone:(204)487-3300 ext.640

Address:Canadian Mennonite University, 500 Shaftesbury Boulevard, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3P 2N2, Canada

Institution:Canadia Mennonite University

Bio:Sue Sorensen is Assistant Professor of English at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg and the editor of West of Eden: Essays on Canadian Prairie Literature (CMU Press).

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (British) (Contemporary) (Fiction) (Films) (Modern) (Music) (Poetry) (Publishing) (Regionalism) (Short Stories)

Email:csugars@uottawa.ca

Phone:(613)562-5800 ext.1140

Fax:(613)562-5990

Website:http://www.english.uottawa.ca/faculty/csugars.html

Address:Dept. of English, 70 Laurier Ave. East, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1N 6N5

Institution:University of Ottawa

Bio:Cynthia Sugars is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of numerous articles on Canadian literature and has edited three collections of essays on Canadian literature and postcolonial theory: Unhomely States: Theorizing English-Canadian Postcolonialism (Broadview, 2004); Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature (University of Ottawa Press, 2004); and Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2009). She is also the co-editor, with Laura Moss, of a new two-volume historical anthology of Canadian literature, entitled Canadian Literature in English: Texts and Contexts, published by Pearson/Penguin in 2009. 

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Children's) (Criticism) (Culture) (Drama & Theatre) (Fiction) (First Nations) (Historical Fiction) (Maritime) (Postcolonial) (Settler Writing)

Email:lszabo@ualberta.ca

Address:University of Alberta, 3-5 Humanities Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 3E5, Canada

Institution:University of Alberta

Bio:Lisa Szabo is a PhD Candidate in English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She is Co-Editor of the online publication for the Association of Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada (ALECC), The Goose. Lisa is also a 2009 Trudeau Foundation Scholar.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Ecocriticism) (First Nations) (Life Writing) (Media Studies) (Nature Writing) (Poetry) (Postcolonial) (Publishing) (Regionalism) (Transnationalism)

Email:thibeaj@umoncton.ca

Phone:506-858-4528

Address:University of Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick, E1A 3E9, Canada

Institution:University of Moncton

Bio:Jimmy Thibeault est chercheur postdoctoral au Département d’études françaises de l’Université de Moncton. Son projet, pour lequel il a reçu une bourse du CRSH, porte sur le discours identitaire de l’arrivant dans le roman francophone du Canada.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Diaspora Studies) (Quebec)

Email:norahokkai@gmail.com

Institution:University of Vienna

Bio:Nora Tunkel is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Vienna.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Fiction) (Films) (Historical Fiction) (Poetry) (Quebec) (Transnationalism)

Email:elisabeth.tutschek@gmx.at

Bio:current project: PhD entitled "Dimension lapsisée: Revised subjectivity in Québécois women's narratives

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Culture) (Feminism) (Francophone) (Gay & Lesbian) (Language) (Latin America) (Quebec) (Transnationalism) (Women's Writing)

Email:katrin.urschel@gmail.com

Phone:+353-86-2401172

Website:http://www.geocities.com/katrinurschel1

Address:Department of English NUI Galway University Road Galway Ireland

Institution:National University of Ireland, Galway

Bio:Originally from Germany, Katrin Urschel is a PhD student at the National University of Ireland, writing her dissertation about ethnic identity in Irish-Canadian literature. She teaches undergraduate courses in the Department of English. Her published and forthcoming articles relate to Ireland, Canada and questions of identity.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Auto/biography) (British) (Canadian Studies) (Colonial) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Europe) (Feminism) (Fiction) (First Nations) (German) (History) (Life Writing) (Multicultural) (Poetry) (Politics) (Postcolonial) (Settler Writing) (Transnationalism) (Travel)

Email:ac_valente_ca@yahoo.ca

Phone:416 545 9433

Institution:Athabasca University

Bio:MA Applied Linguistics (Language & Literature) Phd Candidate in Linguistics (stylistics, code switching and ethnic literature)

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Language) (Life Writing) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial) (Short Stories) (Transnationalism) (Women's Writing)

Email:Sylvie.Vranckx@ulb.ac.be

Phone:0032 (0)2 650 38 11

Fax:0032 (0)2 650 24 50

Address:50 Avenue F.D. Roosevelt CP 175 1050 Brussels Belgium

Institution:Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

Bio:Undergraduate in English and Dutch Languages and Literatures from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Free University of Brussels). Master of Arts in English at the University of British Columbia. PhD student in English at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. F.R.S.-FNRS Research Fellow. Published in the Zeitschrift für Kanada-studien and Etudes canadiennes.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Asian-Canadian) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Culture) (Feminism) (Fiction) (First Nations) (Gay & Lesbian) (Life Writing) (Modern) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial) (Short Stories)

Email:annefwalker@gmail.com

Institution:University of California

Bio:Anne F. Walker is a Canadian poet whose recent books include Into the Peculiar Dark and The Exit Show. Her Ph.D. in Urban Poetics is from the University of California, Berkeley.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Contemporary) (Cultural Geography) (Culture) (Poetry) (Publishing)

Email:kmwarder@hotmail.com

Address:209-174 King Street, London, Ontario, N6A 1C6, Canada

Institution:University of Western Ontario

Bio:Kristen Warder is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Western Ontario (ABD).

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Architecture) (Art) (Auto/biography) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Criticism) (Cultural Geography) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Ecocriticism) (Feminism) (First Nations) (Gay & Lesbian) (Life Writing) (Maritime) (Nature Writing) (Poetry) (Regionalism) (Women's Writing)

Email:andrea.wasylow@usask.ca

Phone:(306)966-6757

Address:University of Saskatchewan, St. Thomas More College, 1437 College Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 0W6, Canada

Institution:St. Thomas More College

Bio:Andrea Wasylow-Ducasse teaches for the Department of English at St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (Art) (Canadian Studies) (Criticism) (Diaspora Studies) (Feminism) (Fiction) (Poetry) (Postcolonial)

Email:pwebb065@hotmail.com

Institution:McGill University

Bio:

Peter Webb will begin a lectureship at McGill University in Sept. 2010. He taught formerly at Concordia University and the University of Ottawa, where he was also SSHRC doctoral fellow. He is the editor of From Room to Room: The Poetry of Eli Mandel (Wilfrid Laurier UP, forthcoming January 2011) and has published articles on Sara Jeannette Duncan, Timothy Findley, and Tom Thomson in the Journal of Canadian Studies and books from DeGruyter Press and University of Ottawa Press. His reviews of contemporary Canadian poetry appear in the Journal of Canadian Poetry. Current research includes a critical book on the war novel in Canada, to be entitled Shattered Lines: War in the Canadian Novel. Dr. Webb is a member of ACCUTE, ALCQ-ACQL, and EMiC (Editing Modernism in Canada).

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Contemporary) (Fiction) (Films) (Modern) (Poetry) (War)

Email:agnesw@yorku.ca

Phone:514 489-8953

Address:Department of English N832A Ross Building York University Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3

Institution:York University

Bio:Agnes Whitfield - Biographical Note Born in Peterborough, Ontario in 1951, Agnes Whitfield studied French and Québec literature at Queen's University, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne and Université Laval (Ph. D., 1981). She worked as a professional translator with the Canadian Secretary of State Translation Bureau (1976-1980), and taught translation and Québec literature, at Queen's University (1980-1990), and since 1990, at York University, where she chaired the School of Translation (1992-1996), and is now Professor of English and French. Agnes Whitfield is the author of Le Je(u) illocutoire. Forme et contestation dans le roman québécois contemporain (Presses de l'Université Laval, 1987), co-editor of Critique et littérature québécoise (Tryptique, 1992), La Nouvelle: écriture(s) et lecture(s) (XYZ, 1993), and La Francophonie ontarienne : bilan et perspectives de recherche (Le Nordir, 1995), and editor of Le Métier du double. Portraits de traducteurs et traductrices francophones (Fides, Collection du CRILCQ, 2005), short-listed for the Canadian Federation of the Humanities Raymond-Klibansky Prize, and Writing Between the Lines. Portraits of Canadian Anglophone Translators (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006). She has published over fifty articles on contemporary Québec and Canadian fiction, literary translation, and the theory of translation in journals including Voix et images, Études canadiennes, Québec français, Méta, Lettres québécoises, Queen's Quarterly, and Canadian Literature, as well as in edited volumes and International Conference Proceedings. Since 2002, she is the translation review editor for the University of Toronto Quarterly. Short-listed in 1991 for the Governor General's Award for Divine Diva, her translation of Daniel Gagnon's novel, Venite a cantare, Agnes Whitfield is an accredited member of the Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ontario and the Literary Translators Association of Canada. As President of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies for two mandates (1995-1999), she signed a Research Exchange Agreement with the European Society for Translation Studies, and created the Canadian Vinay-Darbelnet Awards in translation studies. Her works of poetry include: Ô cher Émile je t'aime ou l'heureuse mort d'une Gorgone anglaise racontée par sa fille (Le Nordir, 1993), Où dansent les nénuphars (Le Nordir, 1995), and Et si les sirènes ne chantaient plus (Écrits des Forges, 2001). Visiting Professor at the University of Bologna's Centro di Studi Québecchesi in May 2003, she was Seagram Visiting Chair at the McGill University Institute for the Study of Canada (2003-2004). As SSHRCC/Heritage Canada virtual scholar (2006-2007), she carried out national surveys of university professors, librarians, publishers and booksellers in English and French, to assess the contribution of literary translation to linguistic duality in Canada. With SSHRC funding, she is presently working on a book on Hannah Josephson, the American translator of Gabrielle Roy’s Bonheur d’occasion, and a bibliographical tool to facilitate literary exchange between Canada, the Czech Republic, Estonia and Romania.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Contemporary) (Culture) (Feminism) (Francophone) (Quebec) (Short Stories)

Email:mal.woodland@utoronto.ca

Phone:(416)946-3456

Fax:416-978-2836

Address:Department of English, University of Toronto 6th Floor, Jackman Humanities Building 170 St. George St. Toronto, ON M5R 2M8

Institution:University of Toronto

Bio:
Malcolm Woodland is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Toronto.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Poetry)

Email:eewunker@ucalgary.ca

Phone:(403)202-1723

Address:2520 17th St SE, Calgary, Alberta, T2G 3V9, Canada

Institution:University of Calgary

Bio:Erin Wunker recently defended her PhD at the University of Calgary, where she currently teaches as a sessional instructor. Her work concerns contemporary Canadian women’s writing and performance, and concepts of feminist archives.

Fields of Interest:(21st Century) (Canadian Studies) (Feminism) (First Nations) (Gay & Lesbian) (Multicultural) (Poetry) (Politics) (Transnationalism)

Email:andrewk.yang@utoronto.ca

Institution:University of Toronto

Bio:Andrew Yang is currently writing his PhD on critical multiculturalism and fantasy literature in America.

Fields of Interest:(20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Asian) (Asian-American) (Culture) (Multicultural) (Postcolonial) (Speculative Fiction) (Young Adult (YA) Literature)

Email:hjzhu@ualberta.ca

Address:Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Institution:University of Alberta

Bio:Julie studied Life Sciences in Human Biology and Anthropology. By writing poetries, she wishes to promote arts and humanity.

Fields of Interest:(19th Century) (20th Century) (21st Century) (American) (Asian-Canadian) (Auto/biography) (British) (Culture) (Diaspora Studies) (Multicultural) (Poetry)