Directory of Research and Expertise

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Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

English Literature, Gender studies

Regions:

North America

Summary of research interests and expertise:

Specialised in teaching and writing about Canadian literature, particularly contemporary Canadian women writers, including Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro
 

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
01-Apr-2022	Nurturing Nature and Our Humanity: Margaret Atwood's Environmental Writing Chapters Ecocritical reading of selected Atwood poems and MaddAddam trilogy  which emphasises both thematic and literary dimensions of her enviromental writing. Chapter is in Ecosustainable Narratives and Partnership Relationsips in World Literature in English, eds.Antonella Riem Natale and Tony Hughes d'Aeth (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), pp.18-30.
01-Apr-2021	Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood 2nd edition Edited Book 12 essays plus introduction offers a comprehensively revised overview of Atwood's work,with emphasis on her work in multiple genres since 2000, paying particular aatention to her recent dystopias includign The Testaments and the Hulu+MGM tv adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale. xxi+216 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-48635-4  Hardback / 978-1-108-70763-3 pbk
10-Dec-2017	Margaret Atwood in Conversation with Coral Ann Howells Articles Pamphlet 20pp. Publisher: British Library, Eccles Centre for American Studies, December 2017. (This is an edited transcript of interview I did with Atwood for BACS Annual Conference keynote in May 2017)
06-Nov-2017	True Trash: Genre Fiction Revisited in Margaret Atwood's *Stone Mattress*, *The Heart Goes Last*, and *Hag-Seed* Journal articles Contemporary Women's Writing 11.3.(November 2017): 297-315.
01-Jan-2014	Private and Fictional Words: Canadian Women Novelists of the 1970s and 80s Review  Private and Fictional Words: Canadian Women Novelists of the 1970s and 80s (London & NewYork: Methuen, 1987. 229 + ix pp.) Reissued in Routledge Revivals series. Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2014.
01-Sep-2013	‘ Haunted by The Handmaid’s Tale’. A Word after a Word is Power Papers ‘ Haunted by The Handmaid’s Tale’. A Word after a Word is Power: Saggi per Anna Pia De Luca, ed. Deborah Saidero. Udine: Forum Press, 2013, pp.37-48.
01-Sep-2013	‘ Writing Poetry of Place and Belonging in World Literatures in English.’ Papers ‘ Writing Poetry of Place and Belonging in World Literatures in English.’ The Tapestry of the Creative Word in Anglophone Literatures, ed. Antonella Riem Natale et al. Udine: Forum Press, 2013, pp.117-130.
01-Jan-2013	Love, Mystery and Misery: Feeling in Gothic Fiction Review Love, Mystery and Misery: Feeling in Gothic Fiction (London: Athlone, 1978, 199 pp. 2nd edition with new Preface, 1995). Reissued in Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism 18-19th Centuries. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
01-Jan-2013	Cambridge History of Canadian Literature, ed. with Eva-Marie Kroller Edited Book  Cambridge History of Canadian Literature, ed. with Eva-Marie Kroller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 754 +xlviii pp. Reissued in paperback, 2013.
01-Jan-2013	Tellers and Listeners: The Narrative Imagination of Carol Shields Chapters In Form and Feeling in Modern Literature: Essays in Honour of Barbara Hardy. Ed. William Baker with Isobel Armstrong. London: Legenda, 2013. Pp. 160-169.
01-Sep-2012	An Atwoodian Mosaic: Transformations of The Year of the Flood Chapters In Transformations of the Canadian Cultural Mosaic. Eds. Anna Pia de Luca and Deborah Saidero. Udine: Forum, 2012. Pp. 49-62
01-Jan-2012	'Rewriting Tradition: Literature, History, and Changing Narratives in English Canada Since the 1970s' Chapters In Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts: Narratives of English Canada. Ed. Eva Darias Beautell. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012. pp. 19-42
01-Jan-2012	'Canadian? Literary? History? Writing Canadian Literary Histories' Chapters In Various Cultures, Variant Readings: Essays in Honour of Professor Jameela Begum. Vol. I. Ed. B. Hariharan et. al. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2012. pp. 30-44.
01-Jan-2010	“Literary History and National Narrative in the Cambridge History of Canadian Literature, the Cambridge History of Australian literature and A New Literary History of America.” With Eva-Marie Kroller. Anglistik 21.2 (2010): 115-132.
01-Jan-2010	“Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Travelling Ladies.” Chapters Janice Kulyk Keefer: Essays on Her Works. Ed. Deborah Saidero. Toronto: Guernica, 2010: 57-78. (Reprint of 1992 essay)
01-Jan-2009	“Switching the Plot: From Survival to the Cambridge History of Canadian Literature.” With Eva-Marie Kroller. Canada Exposed / Le Canada a découvert. Ed. Pierre Anctil, André Loiselle, Christopher Rolfe. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2009: pp. 45-60.
01-Jan-2009	“The 1940s and 1950s: Signs of Cultural Change.” Cambridge History of Canadian Literature. Ed. C.A.Howells and E-M. Kroller. Cambridge : CUP, 2009: pp.289-311.
01-Jan-2009	“Not Belonging, but Longing: Shifts of Emphasis in Contemporary Diasporic Writing in Canada.” Diasporic Subjectivity and Cultural Brokering in Contemporary Post-Colonial Literatures. Ed. Igor Maver. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009: pp.1-14.
01-Jan-2009	The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature Co-edited with Professor Eva-Marie Kroller of the University of British Columbia
01-Jan-2006	Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood ed.
	Oxford History of the Novel in English, Vol.12 'The Novel in English since 1950 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific'. Co-editor (with Gerry Turcotte and Paul Sharrad).

Relevant Events

Related events:

Date	Details
15-May-2013	'Nothing: Writing Poetry of Place and Belonging in World Literatures in England' The Creative Word, University of Salerno, 15-17 May, 2013
03-Apr-2013	Framing Urban Canada: Thoretical and Creative Spaces One-day research seminar, in collaboration with the three-year research project 'The City, Urban Cultures and Sustainable Literatures: Representations of the Anglo-Canadian Post-Metropolis' funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology.
01-Jan-2012	'All That Below-the-Surface Stuff: Carol Shields's Conversational Modes' The Worlds of Carol Shields. University of Ottawa. 27-29 April, 2012
01-Jan-2012	Graduate Classes: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale Visiting Professor for graduate classes on Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. University of Udine, Italy. February 2012
01-Jan-2011	An Atwoodian Mosaic: Transformations of 'The Year of the Flood' International conference on the "Canadian Cultural Mosaic as Metaphor", University of Udine, Italy, April 2011
01-Jan-2011	Gender and the City International conference "The Glocal City in Canadian Literature", University; of Salamanca, June 2011

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