Contributors

IQ Contributors Contributors Margaret Adsett obtained her doctorate in Sociology from Carleton University. She is presently a senior research advisor with the Department of Canadian Heritage, where she advises and undertakes research in the areas of identity, integration, citizenship, and intercultural relations. Her latest publication is "Change in Political Era and Demographic Weight as Explanations of 'Y outh Disenfranchisement' in Federal Elections in Canada, 1965-2000" in foumal o(Yo11th St11dies 6.3 (2003) 247-64. She is currently working on a comparative research project with the Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique of France, on the integration of immigrant youth. George Elliott Clarke is one of Canada's most loved poets and he is also the inaugural E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. A recipient of major awards, including the 2001 Governor-General's Award for Poetry, Clarke is also known for his pioneering study of African-Canadian literature , Odysseys Home (University of Toronto Press, 2002). Ramsay Cook, the General Editor of the Dictionary ofCanadian Biograpliy/ Diction11aire biographique du Canada, presented an earlier version of his essay at a Symposium on 8 March 2003, following the performance of Taptoo! by the students of the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. David G. Haglund is the Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Political Studies at Queen's University. His research is in the area of transatlantic security relations. He is the co-editor of the /11temational foumal. Steve Hewitt is a Lecturer in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He is the author of Spying 101: The RCMP' s Secret Activities at Canadian Universities, 1917-1997 (University of Toronto Press, 2002) and co-author, with Reg Whitaker, of Canada and the Cold War (Lorimer, 2003). He can be contacted through his web site www.spyinglOI.com. A.J.B. Oohn) Johnston is a Parks Canada historian and the author of many studies of French colonial Louisbourg, including Life and Religion (McGill-Queen's University Press) and Control and Order (Michigan State University Press) and Grand-Pre, Heart ofAcadie (Nimbus Publishing), co-authored with W.P. Kerr. His latest book, Storied Shores: St. Peter's, Isle Madame and Chapel Js/a11d in the 17th and 18th Centuries, is soon to be released by the University College of Cape Breton Press. Volume 38 • No. 2 • (Printemps 2004 Spring) Journal of Canadian Studies • Revue d'etudes canadiennes Michael Morin worked for the Department of Canadian Heritage as a research analyst. He returned to the University of Ottawa to complete his Master's degree in Political Science. His fields of research and interest concentrate on American and Canadian politics. Lucie Robert est membre du Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la litterature et la culture quebecoises (CRILCQ) et professeure au Departement d'etudes litteraires de l'Universite du Quebec aMontreal. Membre des collectifs de redaction du Dictiormaire des ceuvres litteraires du Quebec (1978-1986), puis de La Vie litteraire au Quebec (depuis 1987), directrice de la revue Voix et images (1988-1992), elle a publie Le Manuel d'histoire de la litterat11re canadienne-franfaise de Camille Roy (IQRC, 1982. Prix Edmond-de-Nevers), L'lnstitution du litteraire au Quebec (PUL, 1989. Prix Raymond-Klibansky), ainsi que plusieurs articles sur la litterature et le theatre quebecois. Cynthia Sugars is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa, where she specializes in Canadian literature and postcolonial theory. She is the editor of Unhomely States: Theorizing EnglishCanadian Postcolonialism (Broadview Press, 2003) and Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature (forthcoming with University of Ottawa Press, 2004). Carmen Nielson Varty is a doctoral candidate at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Her dissertation, "A 'Laudable Undertaking': Women, Charity and the Public Sphere in Mid-nineteenth Century Hamilton, Canada West," considers elite women's associationalism, voluntarism and charity, religion and female social action, rhetoric and women's self-representation, and the institutionalization of dependent children. Michelle Weinroth is the author of Reclaiming William Morris: Englisfmess, Sublimity, & the Rhetoric ofDissent (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996), and the co-translator with Paul Leduc Browne of Trudeau and the End ofa Canadian Dream by Guy...