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Courses taught 2009/2010:
ENG104 Poetry and Drama
ENG257 The British Novel
ENG346 19th-century English Literature: Victorian
ENG347 20th-century British Literature
ENG357 Contemporary Fiction
ENG425 Studies in Canadian Literature: Poetry
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. (1990), English, University of Ottawa
Dissertation: "Mimesis, Magic, Manipulation: A Study of the Photograph in Contemporary British and Canadian Novels."
Cert. Ed. (1971), Education, Cambridge University
B.A. Hons (1970) and M.A. (1974), English Language and Literature, Oxford University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- British modernism
- Postmodern fiction and faith
- Canadian poetry and environmental concern
CURRENT RESEARCH
- The spiritual and the mythical in contemporary Canadian poetry
- Narrative epistemology. “Mimesis represented: Richard Kearney on stories” - paper presented at ACCUTE (Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English) during the Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities at Carleton U., May 2009.
- The pedagogical necessity of mystery, and the relationship between reason and imagination in holistic literature teaching. “’Jesus Christ the Apple Tree’ : preparing for Good Friday in a Literature and Environment course” - paper for the Kuyers Conference on “Teaching, Learning, and Christian Practices,” Calvin College, October 2009.
- “John Terpstra: the body of his work.” Article solicited for Canadian Poetry, 2011.
RESEARCH FUNDING
Stories of the Middle Space: Reading the Ethics of Postmodern Realisms (McGill- Queen’s U P) has been awarded an Aid to Scholarly Publications grant by SSHRC.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Stories of the Middle Space: Reading the Ethics of Postmodern Realisms. McGill- Queen’s U P; forthcoming, Spring 2010.
The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity: Literature and the Christian Critic, ed. Deborah C. Bowen. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
RECENT AND FORTHCOMING BOOK CHAPTERS
“Literature and Shalom: Teaching Freshman Students to Read.” In Teaching to Justice: Christian Faculty Seek ‘Shalom’ in Different Disciplines. Ed. Julia K. Stronks, Whitworth College. Online anthology. Summer 2008. (Also in Council for Christian Colleges and Universities online Research Library.)
“Annie Dillard on Holy Ground: the Artist as Nun in the Postmodern Sublime.” In Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime: Trauma and Transcendence in Literature . Ed. Holly Faith Nelson, Lynn Szabo, and Jens Zimmermann. Forthcoming with Wilfrid Laurier U P, Feb. 2010.
“Postmodern realism and photographic subjectivity in The Stone Diaries .” In Re:Reading the Postmodern: a Canadian Literature Symposium . Ed. Robert Stacey. Forthcoming with U of Ottawa P, 2010.
FORTHCOMING ARTICLE
"’Blessed are the poor in spirit’: Imagining excellence otherwise.” Journal of Education and Christian Belief, Winter 2010.
RECENT BOOK REVIEWS
Ralph Gustafson, Selected Poems . Books in Canada , August 2002.
’Your turn is next’: the spirit is willing but the flesh is uneven.” Review of Poetry and Spiritual Practice: Selections from Contemporary Canadian Poets. Ed. Susan McCaslan. Toronto: The St Thomas Poetry Series, 2002. Canadian Poetry , Fall 2003: 99-105.
John Terpstra, Falling into Place . Kentville, N.S.: Gaspereau P, 2002. Canadian Literature 183 (Winter 2005): 175-76.
Daniel Coleman, The Scent of Eucalyptus: A Missionary Childhood in Ethiopia . Fredericton, N.B.: Goose Lane, 2003. In Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, Summer 2005.
Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, Summer 2005.
Diana Fitzgerald Brydon, Clinic Day (London, ON: Brick Books, 2004); Susan Glickman, Running in Prospect Cemetery: New and Selected Poems (Montreal: Signal/Véhicule Press, 2004); and Genevieve Lehr, The Sorrowing House (London, ON: Brick Books, 2004). Journal of Canadian Poetry 21 (2006): 50-57.
Cyril Dabydeen, Imaginary Origins: Selected Poems 1970-2002 (Leeds, U.K.: Peepal Tree, 2004). Journal of Canadian Poetry 22 (2007).
Three Laurier Poetry Series volumes: Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt , selected and intro. Tanis MacDonald; Field Marks: The Poetry of Don McKay , selected and intro. Méira Cook; The More Easily Kept Illusions: The Poetry of Al Purdy , selected and intro. Robert Budde. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2006. Journal of Canadian Poetry 23, 28-35.
"An Easter Orchard": review of John Terpstra's "This Orchard Sound." Comment online , April 17, 2009 .
FORTHCOMING
• Review of two books from Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, B.C. (2007): Patrick Lane, Last Water Song , and Tom Wayman, high speed through shoaling water . JCP 24 (2009).
• Review of Tim Lilburn’s recent book Going Home: Essays (for The Goose)
• Review of Alice Major’s recent collection The Office Tower Tales (for Journal of Canadian Poetry ).