Home Ground and Foreign Territory: Essays on Early Canadian Literature

Contributors

Home Ground Final.indd 295 14-03-19 09:54 Contributors Joel Baetz is Assistant Professor at Trent University. He is the editor of Canadian Poetry from World War I: An Anthology, and the author of articles on, among other topics, Robert Service’s war journalism and poetry, Anna Durie’s elegies, and Rohinton Mistry’s rendition of cricket. His work has appeared in Canadian Literature, Canadian Poetry, Studies in Canadian Literature and various edited collections . D.M.R. Bentley is Distinguished University Professor and the Carl F. Klinck Professor in Canadian Literature at Western University. He has published extensively in the fields of Canadian literature and culture and Victorian literature and art, and on the social and economic importance of the Arts and Humanities. His publications include Mimic Fires: Accounts of Early Long Poems on Canada, The Confederation Group of Canadian Poets, 1880­1897, and Canadian Architexts: Essays on Literature and Architecture in Canada, as well as scholarly editions of such works as John Howison's Sketches of Upper Canada, Archibald Lampman's The Story of an Affinity, and Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Albert Braz teaches at the University of Alberta, specializing in Canadian literature in both its national and inter­American contexts. He is the author of The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Culture and the co­editor of an issue of theCanadian Review of Comparative Literature on comparative Canadian literature and of an issue of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture on Indigenous literatures. Home Ground Final.indd 296 14-03-19 09:54 Contributors Andrea Cabajsky is Associate Professor and Chair of English at the Universit éde Moncton. She is the editor of The Manor House of de Villerai by Rosanna Mullins Leprohon and the co­editor of National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada. Wanda Campbell teaches Creative Writing and Women’s Literature at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. She edited Hidden Rooms: Early Canadian Women Poets and Literature: a Pocket Anthology, and her articles on Canadian writers have appeared in numerous academic journals. She has also published the novel Hat Girl and four collections of poetry. Jennifer Chambers is a professor, researcher, and writer whose work explores gender and sexuality, often within a Canadian literary context. She edited the collection Diversity and Change in Early Canadian Women’s Writing. She has published academic articles on the representations and reputations of early Canadian women writers. Cecily Devereux is a Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, focusing in her research and publications on problems of the performance, representation, and circulation of femininity in Anglo­imperial popular culture in the long nineteenth century. Mary Jane Edwards, Distinguished Research Professor of English at Carleton University, directed the Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts (CEECT), a project that produced fourteen scholarly editions of major works of early English­Canadian prose. The final volume in the CEECT Series, William Kirby’s Le Chien d’or/The Golden Dog: A Legend of Quebec, edited by Edwards, appeared in 2012. Janice Fiamengo is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of The Woman's Page: Journalism and Rhetoric in Early Canada (2008) and the editor of Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination (2007). Carole Gerson is a Professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University, where she specializes in Canadian literary and publishing history. She has published extensively on early Canadian women writers, including Pauline Johnson and L.M. Montgomery, as well as many less canonical figures, and was a co­editor of History of the Book in Canada. 296 Home Ground Final.indd 297 14-03-19 09:54 297 Contributors Ceilidh Hart is an Assistant Professor at the University of the Fraser Valley. She specializes in Canadian literature, with a particular focus on nineteenth­century women's writing and early literary culture. She is a recent recipient of the Marie Tremaine Fellowship with the Bibliographical Society of Canada. Thomas Hodd teaches Canadian literature at Université de Moncton. His work has appeared in Canadian Poetry, Studies in Canadian Literature, and Canadian Literature. He also recently served as coeditor for a Special Issue of Canadian Literature, focusing on Early Canadian Literature. He is currently working on a critical edition of Mary Melville, the Psychic. Cynthia Sugars is a Professor of English at the University of...