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Courses taught 2010/2011:
ENG103 Fiction
ENG/ENV241 Literature and the Environment
ENG257 The British Novel
ENG347 20th-century British Literature
ENG376 World Literature Written in English
ENG416 Contemporary Critical Theory
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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
- Postmodern fiction and faith
- Canadian poetry and environmental concern
- British modernism
CURRENT RESEARCH
- The spiritual and the mythical in contemporary Canadian poetry
- Mimesis and narrative epistemology (Paul Ricoeur, Richard Kearney)
RESEARCH FUNDING
Stories of the Middle Space: Reading the Ethics of Postmodern Realisms (McGill- Queen's U P) was awarded an Aid to Scholarly Publications grant by SSHRC.
RECENT AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Stories of the Middle Space: Reading the Ethics of Postmodern Realisms. McGill- Queen's University Press, 2010.
The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity: Literature and the Christian Critic, ed. Deborah C. Bowen. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
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 University Press, 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.
ARTICLES
"'Blessed are the poor in spirit': Imagining excellence otherwise." Journal of Education and Christian Belief 14.1 (Spring 2010): 7-17.
SELECTED BOOK REVIEWS
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.
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.
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).
Tim Lilburn,
Going Home: Essays. In
The Goose 6 (Fall 2009): 55-57.
Alice Major,
The Office Tower Tales (forthcoming in
Journal of Canadian Poetry).
LINKS
Stories of the Middle Space, purchase HERE
The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity, purchase HERE