Is Canada Postcolonial?: Unsettling Canadian Literature

Notes on Contributors

NEIL BESNER, Dean of Humanities at The University of Winnipeg, has taught Canadian literature there since 1987. His publications include books on Mavis Gallant (1988) and Alice Munro (1991), and co-edited collections of short fiction and poetry. His most recent work includes a co-edited special issue, with Sergio Bellei, of the Brazilian journal Desterros (2003) exploring Brazilian/Canadian versions and visions of postcolonial theory across the two cultures. His translation of the Brazilian biography of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares, Rare and Commonplace Flowers, appeared in 2002, and his edited collection of essays, Carol Shields: The Arts of a Writing Life is forthcoming in 2003. BARBARA S. BRUCE is a PhD candidate at The University of Western Ontario. Her doctoral thesis, for which she has received SSHRC doctoral support, examines representations of museums and collecting in Canadian literature. Currently working as adjunct faculty at UWO, she is teaching courses on reading culture through literary and filmic representations of cuisine and horror. DIANA BRYDON, Robert and Ruth Lumsden Professor of English, teaches Canadian and postcolonial literatures at The University of Western Ontario. The author of books on Timothy Findley and postcolonial literature, she has edited Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies (2000) and co-edited Shakespeare in Canada: A World Elsewhere? (2002). She is currently working on globalization, 352 Notes on Contributors autonomy, and postcolonial studies with funding support from SSHRC. ROBERT BUDDE teaches creative writing and critical theory at The University of Northern British Columbia. He has published two books of poetry, Catch as Catch and traffick, and two novels, Misshapen and, most recently, The Dying Poem. He has a collection of short prose, flicker, and interviews In Muddy Water: Conversations with 11 Poets, forthcoming in 2003. MRIDULA NATH CHAKRABORTY completed her M.Phil in English from the Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi, in 1995. She subsequently taught English literature at various colleges affiliated to The University of Delhi. She is currently pursuing her PhD in English at The University of Alberta. Her dissertation explores the tensions between postcolonial identity politics in the academy and third-world feminisms of colour in white-settler colonies. She has also translated and co-edited, with Dr Rani Ray, A Treasury of Bangla Stories (1999). She is now translating a collection of short stories by modern Hindi writers. GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE is a self-proclaimed “Africadian” (African-Nova Scotian), with maternal roots in Nova Scotia dating back to 1813. Clarke taught at Duke University, 1994-99, and is now an associate professor of English at The University of Toronto. A pioneering authority on African-Canadian literature, Clarke’s latest critical book is Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature (2002). Also a noted poet, playwright, and librettist, Clarke received the 2001 GovernorGeneral ’s Literary Award for Poetry for his book, Execution Poems. CECILY DEVEREUX is an associate professor in the Department of English at The University of Alberta. Recent work on gender, race, and empire—with particular reference to white slavery and to the politics of imperial motherhood—have appeared in the Victorian Review, Canadian Children’s Literature, Essays on Canadian Writing, and Women’s Studies International Forum. A scholarly edition of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables is forthcoming (2003). LEN FINDLAY is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Research Unit at The University of Saskatchewan. Widely published in N O T E S O N C O N T R I B U T O R S 353 nineteenth-century studies, literary theory, and the nature and role of universities and the humanities in Canada, his most recent work includes a co-edited collection, Pursuing Academic Freedom: ‘Free and Fearless’? (2001). He is currently collaborating on a SSHRC-sponsored endeavour entitled “Decolonizing Education: An Interdisciplinary Aboriginal Research Project.” SUSAN GINGELL teaches and researches Canadian and other decolonizing Anglophone literatures at The University of Saskatchewan. Her work is informed by feminist, anti-racist, and anti-homophobic politics. Past publications include E.J. Pratt, On His Life and Poetry and Pursuits Amateur and Academic: The Selected Prose of E.J. Pratt, as well as an edition of stories from Saskatoon, The Bridge City Anthology, and essays on a wide-range of authors and subjects. Her current research project is on textualizing orature and orality in Canadian/Turtle Island and AfroCaribbean contexts. TERRY GOLDIE teaches at York University. He is the author of...