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vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This edited volume arises out of TransCanada 3: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship , the third conference in a series designed to address the formation of Canadian literature as an institution and the shifts it has been undergoing in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Organized jointly via the University of Guelph and Mount Allison University, it took place in July 2009. We would like to thank all the delegates who participated in that event, and to acknowledge the valuable contributions of the members of the organizing committee (http://www.transcanadas.ca/2d_transcanada3.html). Beyond the conference, the opportunity to work with the contributors to this volume has been one of tremendous intellectual stimulation, collaboration , and collegiality. We thank them for their insights and commitment to continuing the critical development of Canadian literary studies. Their work has made this volume possible. For assistance with the manuscript’s preparation, and related research, we would like to thank the graduate and undergraduate research assistants at TransCanada Institute, in alphabetical order, Marcelle Kosman, Cameron Kroetsch, Hannah McGreggor, Mishi Prokop, Andrew Whitfield, and Robert Zacharias, and Prathna Lor at the University of Toronto. We are especially thankful to our respective institutions, University of Guelph and Mount Allison University, for their generous financial and in-kind support toward the conference. We also wish to express our gratitude to the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada and the Canada Research Chair program in Critical Studies in Canadian Literature (2005–13) that helped make the publication of this volume possible. Finally, our sincere thanks to our editor at Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Lisa Quinn, for her editorial ingenuity, and viii Acknowledgements to Rob Kohlmeier for his impeccable attentiveness to the entire production process. Smaro Kamboureli University of Toronto Christl Verduyn Mount Allison University ...

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