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The Contributors Sandra R. Goulart Almeida is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, and a researcher from the funding agencies, CNPq and FAPEMIG. She has edited and co-edited several books, including: The Art of Elizabeth Bishop (2001), Gender Studies and Feminist Perspectives (2003), Transnational Perspectives Brazil-Canadá (2005), New Challenges in Language and Literature (2009). She is currently working on a book on contemporary women writers and diasporic movements. Diana Brydon is Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies at the University of Manitoba, where she teaches Canadian and postcolonial studies. She is completing work with two cross-disciplinary research teams investigating “Globalization and Autonomy” and “Building Global Democracy” (http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org). Her newest SSHRC-funded team project, “Brazil/Canada Knowledge Exchange: developing transnational literacies” works with English teachers in Canada and Brazil to develop site-specific pedagogies and research production appropriate to the challenges of ethical cross-cultural engagement. Alison Calder teaches Canadian literature and creative writing in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre at the University of Manitoba. Wolf Tree, her poetry collection, won two Manitoba Books Awards and was a finalist for two national prizes. Her most recent scholarly publication is a critical edition of Frederick Philip Grove’s Over Prairie Trails (Tecumseh, 2011). 299 Daniel Coleman teaches and carries out research in Canadian literary cultures at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He has published Masculine Migrations (1998), The Scent of Eucalyptus (2003), White Civility (2006; winner of the Raymond Klibansky prize), and In Bed with the Word (2009). He has co-edited nine volumes of literary and cultural criticism, the most recent of which are Retooling the Humanities (2011) and Countering Displacements (forthcoming, 2012). Pilar Cuder-Domínguez is Professor of English 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), Stuart Women Playwrights 1613–1713 (2011), and Transnational Poetics: Asian Canadian Women’s Fiction of the 1990s (2011). She is currently at work on a collection of essays on the Black Atlantic. Frank Davey’s most recent books are the procedural poetry collection Bardy Google and the memoir When TISH Happens: The Unlikely Story of Canada’s “Most Influential Literary Magazine.” He co-founded Tish in 1961 and founded the critical journal Open Letter in 1965, which he continues to edit and publish. His biography of the poet bpNichol, akabpNichol, is scheduled for fall 2012 publication. He retired as the Carl F. Klinck Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Western Ontario in 2005. Marta Dvořák is Professor of World Literatures in English at the Sorbonne Nouvelle and former editor of Commonwealth Essays and Studies (2005–2011). Her research has focused on the interactive relations between modernist/postmodern writing and postcolonial literatures as well as writers ’ and readers’ encoding and decoding practices across cultural divides. Her most recent books include Tropes and Territories: Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, and Canadian Writing in Context (which she co-edited with W. H. New, 2007), Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary (co-edited with Manina Jones, 2007), The Faces of Carnival in Anita Desai’s In Custody (2008), and Resurgence in Jane Urquhart’s Oeuvre (co-edited with Héliane Daziron-Ventura, 2010). A critical edition of Ernest Buckler’s The Mountain and the Valley is forthcoming in 2012. 300 THE CONTRIBUTORS [44.220.245.254] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 04:31 GMT) Ajay Heble is Professor of English in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. He is the author or editor of several books, and the founder and Artistic Director of the award-winning Guelph Jazz Festival . He is also a founding co-editor of the journal Critical Studies in Improvisation /Etudes critiques en improvisation (http://www.criticalimprov.com), and Project Director for Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice. Chelva Kanaganakayam is Professor in the Department of English, University of Toronto. He has published Counterrealism and Indo-Anglian Fiction. (2002), Dark Antonyms and Paradise: The Poetry of Rienzi Crusz (1997), Configurations of Exile: South Asian Writers and Their World (1995) and Structures of Negation: The Writings of Zulfikar Ghose (1993). His edited books include Arbiters of a National Imaginary: Essays on Sri Lanka (2008), Moveable Margins: The Shifting Spaces of Canadian Literature (2005), and Lutesong and Lament: Tamil...