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Books (authored, edited, co-edited)

• 2023    Her Own Thinker: Canadian Women Writers as Essayists.  Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2023. 239 pp.
• 2018    Saint John, A Creative City (with G. Davies and P. Larocque). James Lorimer/Formac Publishing Co. 2018. 144 pp.
• 2015    Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics (with B.Vautour, E. Wunker and T. Mason). Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015. 365 pp.
• 2014   Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies (with S. Kamboureli). Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014. 286 pp.
• 2012   Canadian Studies: Past, Present, Praxis  (with J. Koustas). Fernwood Press, 2012. 324 pp.
• 2011    Archival Narratives for Canada: Re-telling Stories in a Changing Landscape (with K. Garay). Halifax: Fernwood Press, 2011. 303 pp.
• 2010   Marian and the Major: Marian Engel's "Elizabeth and the Golden City ." Montreal/Kingston:   McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010. 308 pp.
• 2010   Tulips and Maple Leaves: Perspectives on 65 Years of Dutch-Canadian Relations (with C. Steenman Marcusse). Netherlands: Barkhuis Press (NL), 2010. 192 pp.
• 2008    Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography   (with E. Ty). Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008. 330 pp. Honourable Mention, Association for Asian American Book Award  
• 2005    Must Write: Edna Staebler's Diaries . Waterloo:   Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005. 301 pp.
• 2004    Marian Engel: Life in Letters  (with K. Garay). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. 295 pp.
• 2002    Identity, Community and Nation: Essays on Canadian Literature  (with D. Schaub). Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2002. 228 pp.  
• 2001    Essays on Aritha van Herk. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2001. 126 pp.
• 1999    Marian Engel's Notebooks: Ah, mon cahier, écoute .... Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999. 576 pp.
• 1998    Literary Pluralities . Peterborough:  JCS/Broadview Press, 1998. 296 pp.
• 1995    Lifelines: Marian Engel's Writings . Montreal/Kingston: McGill‑Queen's University Press, 1995. 278 pp. 1995 Gabrielle Roy Book Prize  
• 1995     Dear Marian, Dear Hugh: The MacLennan‑Engel Correspondence . Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. 1995. 134 pp . Quill & Quire Best Books of 1995 Honourable Mention (non‑fiction)  
• 1988    Margaret Laurence: An Appreciation . Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1988. 265 pp.

Online publication

• 2018    HEAR! HEAR! Voice of Canadian Women. Aritha van Herk and Christl Verduyn, editors*         
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  * May also be accessed through

Journals - special guest-edited issues

• "Resurfacing: Women Writing in 1970s Canada/Refaire surface: écrivaines canadiennes des années 1970/1970s Canadian Women's Writing," special guest-edited issue of SCL/ELC (Studies in Canadian Literature/Etudes en littérature canadienne). 44:2 (2019). Co-edited with A. Cabazsky, A. Beverley, K. Bell. 355 pp. Introduction 5-15.
• "Meeting Places/Lieux de rencontre" Journal of Canadian Studies 49:2 (Spring 2015).  With R. Hulan.
• "Taking a Stand! Activism in Canadian Cultural Archives," Archivaria 67 (Spring 2009). Guest-edited special section and introduction (with K. Garay).
• "Activism in Archives," Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 20 (Fall 2008). Guest-edited feature section and introduction (with K. Garay).
• "Archives and Canadian Literature," Journal of Canadian Studies 40:2 (Spring 2006). Co-edited with K. Garay and Introductory essay.
• "Niagara!" Journal of Canadian Studies 39:3 (Fall 2005). Co-edited with J. Koustas.
• "Locating Canadian Cultures in the 21st Century," Journal of Canadian Studies 35:3 (Autumn 2000). Editor and Introductory essay.
• "Suzanne Jacob," Voix et Images 21.2 (Hiver 1996). Presentation, Introduction, author interview, and lead article. In collaboration with L. Saint-Martin.
• "Pulling Together: Canadian Literary Pluralities," Journal of Canadian Studies 31.3 (Fall 1996). Editor, Introduction, and contributed article.

Articles and Essays in Journals and Books

• “(Es)Saying It Her Way: Carol Shields as Essayist,” Relating Carol Shields’s Fiction and Essays: Crossing Borders, Nora Stovel, ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
  * Republished with permission of original publication in Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary, eds. Marta Dvorak and Manina Jones. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007. 59-79.

• “Cocktail: Women in Early Modern Quebec Drama,” Canadian Performance Documents and Debates: A Sourcebook. Anthony Vickery, Glen Nichols, Allana Lindgren, editors. University of Alberta Press, 2022. 291-296.  
  *Canadian Performance Documents and Debates received the 2024 co-winner of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research's Patrick O'Neill Award for best edited collection.

• “‘Knowing nothing about EDI’: A collaborative autoethnography exploring how an anti-racist project was created, publicized, and silenced,” (with E. Pohl et al), International Journal for Students as Partners, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2022): 30-46.

• "Scratching the Surface: Marian Engel's 1970s Writing," SCL/ELC (Studies in Canadian Literature/Etudes en littérature canadienne), Vol. 22, No 2 (2019): 81-101  
• "North and South of the 49^th Parallel in Seth's The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists," Beyond the 49^th Parallel: Many Faces of the Canadian North.Eds. Evaine Le-Calvé-Ivicevic and Vanja Polic. Brno: Masarysk Universiy Press, 2018.125-132
•  "Encountering Canada: Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writing," Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writers since 1945 . eds. Sandra Vlasta and Wiebke Sievers. Leiden, NL: Rodopi/Brill, 2018. 106-150.
• "Forward." New Brunswick at the Crossroads: Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East. ed. Tony Tremblay. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 2017. vii-xviii.
• "The Understanding Canada Program and International Canadian Literary Studies," in Beyond "Understanding Canada": Transnational Perspectives on Canadian Literature, Melissa Tanti, Jeremy Haynes, Daniel Coleman and Lorraine York, eds. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2017.23-36
• "Literary Editorial Theory and Editing Marian Engel," in Editing as Cultural Practice in Canada, eds. Dean Irvine and Smaro Kamboureli. Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2016. 17-28
• "Giving the 21^st Century a Try: Canadian and Québécoise women writers' as essayists" Canada and Beyond:A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies. 3.1-2 (2013): 289-303.
• "Discursive Space: Canadian Women Writers' Essay Writing," Re-exploring Canadian Space/Redécouvrir l'espace canadien, Jeanette den Toonder and Bettina can Hoven, eds. Groningen (NL): Barkhuis, 2012. 163-170.
• "Emmy Andriesse, "Dutch Wartime Photographer: The Hunger Winter of 1945" (with Conny Steenman Marcusse), Bearing Witness: Perspectives on War and Peace in the Arts and Humanities, eds. Sherrill Grace, Patrick Imbert, Tiffany Johnstone. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012: 121-144
• "More than an observer: Emmy Andriesse: Dutch Underground Photographer," (with C. Steenman Marcusse), Photographs, Histories, and Meanings, ed. M. Kadar et.al. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. 139-166.
• "A Canadian Bear, A Woman's Heart: Douglas Glover's Elle and Marian Engel's Bear," TransCanadiana: Polish Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 1 (2008): 74-85.
• "Canadian Women Writers as Essayists: The Examples of Aritha van herk and Di Brandt," From Inside and Outside: Different Perspectives on Canada: Multidisciplinary Approaches, Judit Molnar, ed. Kiadta [Hungary]: Debrecen Press, 2008. 107-119.
• "Marian et le Major: étude de manuscrits et d'archives," Archives littéraires et manuscrits d'ecrivains: politiques et usages du patrimoine, Jacinthe Martel, ed. Montreal: Editions Nota Bene, 2008. 205-220.
• "Self as Garbled Translation: Douglas Glover's Elle/Elle," in Traduire depuis les marges/Translating from the Margins, Denise Merkle, Jane Koustas, Glen Nichols and Sherry Simon, eds. Montreal: Edition Nota bene, 2008. 59-74.
• "(Es)Saying It Her Way: Carol Shields as Essayist,"in Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary, Marta Dvorak and Manina Jones, eds. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 2007. 59-79.
• "Canadianization of the Curriculum," History of the Book in Canada Vol. 3 Gerson, Carole and Jacques Michon, eds. Toronto: UTP, 2007. 556-63. (With Lucie Robert and Janet Friskney)
• "'Creative Criticism': the 'Writer as Critic' in Canadian Literature," (with J. Saul), Open Letter 12:9 (Summer 2006): 65-76.
• "A Piece of the Picture: Kryn Taconis Photojournalist," Building Liberty: Canada and World Peace 1945-2005. eds. Conny Steenman-Marcusse and Aritha van Herk. Groningen: Barkhuis Publishing, 2005. 53-73.
• "Culture and Gender in Kristjana Gunnars' Writing," Essays on Kristjana Gunnars, Monique Tschofen ed. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2004. 172-189.
• "Ecrire l'invisible: éthique et écriture dans Les filles du 5-10-15 et Jeux de patience d'Abla Faroud," Dalhousie French Studies "Littérature et éthique" Vol. 64 (Fall 2003): 33-39.
• "Tongue in Cheek: Dutch in Aritha van Herk's Writing," Adjacencies: Minority Writing in Canada. Moyes, Lianne, Licia Canton and Domenic Beneventi, eds. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2004. 157-167. Reprint from Verduyn 2001.
• "'Breath on a window pane': André Alexis's Childhood," Identity, Community, Nation: Essays on Canadian Writing. D. Schaub and Christl Verduyn, eds. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2002. 18-33.
• "Dynamic Cultural Exchange," Introduction (with Licia Canton). The Dynamics of Cultural Exchange: Creative and Critical Works. L. Canton, ed. Montréal: Cusmano Editions, 2002. 19-25.
• "Stor(y)ing Cultural Difference - Rediscovering Canada," Rediscovering Canadian Difference, Gudrun Bjork Gudsteins ed. Reykjavik, Iceland: NACS 2001. 214-221.
• "L'éth(n)ique, La Québécoite et l'écriture migrante québécoise," Tessera Vol. 29 (Winter 2001): 73-81.
• "Femme(s) sans lettres: Le Bonheur B la queue glissante d'Abla Farhoud," La Francophonie au pluriel: une nouvelle cartographie de l'imaginaire au féminin, eds. Lucie Lequin & Catherine Mavrikakis. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2001. 295-307.
• "Cavewomen Div(in)ing for Pearls," Margaret Laurence: Critical Reflections David Staines, ed. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2001. 23-37.
• "Personal Papers: Putting Lives on the Line: Working with the Marian Engel Archive," Working in Women's Archives, Researching Women's Private Literature and Archival Documents eds. Helen Buss and Marlene Kadar. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001. 91-101.
• "Migrance et Folie," Trajectoires au féminin dans la littérature québécoise (1960-1990), ed. L. Joubert. Montreal: Les Editions Nota Bene, 2000. 119-130.
• "Cultural Locations, Cultural Locutions," Journal of Canadian Studies 35:3 (Autumn 2000): 5-15.
• "Disjunctions: Place, Identity and Nation in 'Minority' Literatures in Canada," Canadian Issues/Thémes canadiens XX (1998): 164-75.
• "Re-constructing Canadian Literature: the Role of Race and Gender," Painting the Maple: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Construction of Canada, eds. Veronica Strong-Boag et al. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1998. 100-13.
• "Relative(ly) Politic(al)s: Comparing (Examples of) Québec/Canadian "ethnic" immigrant" writings," Cultural Identities in Canadian Literature/ Identités culturelles dans la littérature canadienne, ed. Bénédicte MaugiPre. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. 211-25.
• "Interdisciplinarity and the Study of Canadian Literature," Arachne 4.2 (1997): 77-89.
• "Perspectives critiques dans des productions littéraires migrantes au féminin, au Québec et au Canada," Special Issue: "Pulling Together: Canadian Literary Pluralities," Journal of Canadian Studies 31.3 (Fall 1996): 78-86.
• "Etre est une activité de fiction: l'écriture de Suzanne Jacob," Voix et Images 21.2 (Hiver 1996): 232-42.
• "Teaching E/Merging Literatures," Canadian Ethnic Studies, ed. J. Pivato. 28.3 (1996): 39-46.
• "Ecriture et migration au féminin au Québec: de mPre en fille," Multi-culture, multi-écriture. La Voix migrante au féminin en France et au Canada, eds. Lucie Lequin et MaVr Verthuy. Paris, France: L'Harmattan, 1996. 131-44.
• "Migrant Writing/Memory Work: Mediating Me/Moi," Intersexions: Issues of Race and Gender in Canadian Women's Writing, eds. Barbara Godard and Coomi Vevaina. New Delhi: Creative Books, 1996. 99-111.
• "The MacLennan-Engel Letters," Hugh MacLennan, ed. Frank Tierney. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1995. 23-34.
• "Marian Engel's cahiers," Prairie Fire, Special Issue: "Life writing," ed. Helen Buss, 16.3 (Autumn 1995): 127-34.
• "The Mule and the Muse: Marian Engel's Monodromos," Voyages: Real and Imaginary, Personal and Collective, Canadian Issues/ThPmes canadiens, XVI, eds. John Lennox, Lucie Lequin, MichPle Lacombe and Allan Seager. Montreal: Association for Canadian Studies, 1994. 33-43.
• "Connaître son rapport au réel: postmodernisme, féminisme et l'écriture de Line McMurray," Les Discours féminins dans la littérature postmoderne au Québec sous la direction de Raija Koski, Kathleen Kells et Louise Forsyth. New York: Edwin Mellen, 1993. 135-53.
• "La Voix féminine de l'altérité québécoise littéraire," Mélanges de littérature québécoise et canadienne-française, offerts au professeur Réjean Robidoux, Yolande Grisé et Robert Major, eds. Ottawa: Editions de l'Université d'Ottawa, 1992. 379-90.
• "La prose féminine québécoise des années trente," L'autre lecture: critiques au féminin de textes québécois: Tome I, ed. Lori Saint-Martin. Montréal: Editions XYZ, 1992. 57-72.
• "Une voix féminine précoce au théâtre québécois: Cocktail (1935) d'Yvette Ollivier Mercier-Gouin," L'autre lecture: critiques au féminin de textes québécois: Tome I, ed. Lori Saint-Martin. Montréal: Editions XYZ, 1992. 73-84.
• "Between the Lines: Marian Engel's cahiers and notebooks," Essays on Life Writing: From Genre to Critical Practice, ed. Marlene Kadar. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. 28-41.
• "Nouvelles voies/voix: l'écriture de Nadine Ltaif," Quebec Studies 14 (Spring/Summer 1992): 41-48.
• "Je: voi(e)s double(s): L'itinéraire littéraire de Nadine Ltaif," Tessera 12 (Summer 1992): 98-105.
• "Contra/diction/s: Language in Laurence's The Diviners," Journal of Canadian Studies 26.3 (Fall 1991): 52-67.
• "Métamorphose, Rythmographie, Machinique: l'Éuvre de Line McMurray," Tessera 8 (Spring 1990): 80-95.
• "Une Voix féminine précoce au théâtre québécois: Cocktail (1935) d'Yvette Ollivier Mercier-Gouin," Histoire du Théâtre au Canada/Theatre History in Canada 11.1 (Printemps 1990): 48-58.
• "Explod/ing/ed Fictions: Marian Engel's Writing," Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal 14.1 (Fall 1988): 13-19.
• "Murder in the Dark: Fiction/Theory by Margaret Atwood," Canadian Fiction Magazine/Tessera 57 (Sept. 1988): 124-31.
• "La Prose féminine québécoise des années 1930," Québec Studies 8 (Spring 1988): 43-57.
• "No Tongue in Cheek: Recent Work by English Canadian poets Daphne Marlatt, Lola Lemire Tostevin and Margaret Atwood," Canadian Woman Studies 8.3 (Fall 1987): 60-62.
• "Family Fictions, Lunatic Villas: Marian Engel's Writing," The New Quarterly, Special Issue: "Family Fictions," VII.1-2 (Spring/Summer 1987): 274-84.
• "L'écriture féminine contemporaine: une écriture de la folie?" Gynocritics/La Gynocritique: Feminist Approaches to Writing by Canadian and Québécoise Women /Approches féministes B l'écriture des Canadiennes et des Québécoises, ed. Barbara Godard. Toronto: ECW Press, 1987. 71-77.
• "From 'The Word on Flesh' to 'The Flesh made Word,'" "Women's Fiction in Canada," American Review of Canadian Studies XV.4 (Winter 1985): 449-64.
• "Ecrire le moi au féminin," Journal of Canadian Studies 20.2 (Summer 1985): 18-28.
• "La Femme dans la littérature féminine et féministe au Canada anglais et français depuis 1960," Femmes: images, modPles/Women: images, role-models, sous la direction de Evelyne Tardy. Montréal: ICREF/CRIAW, 1985. 93-99.
• "Les femmes et le langage," RFR/DRF (Resources for Feminist Research/ Documentation sur la recherche féministe) 13.3 (November 1984): 16-18.
• "Miss Charlie: Subversion in Women's Writing," Room of One's Own/ Tessera 8.4 (Fall 1983): 109-15.
• "La Religion dans le Journal d'Henriette Fadette (1874-1880)," Atlantis: A Woman's Studies Journal 8.2 (Spring 1983): 45-50.
• "L'image de la femme dans l'Éuvre de Gérard Bessette," Lectures de Gérard Bessette, ed. J.-J. Hamm. Montréal: Québec/Amérique, 1982. 99-114.
• "Looking Back to Lot's Wife," Atlantis 6.2 (Spring 1981): 38-47.
• "La Géographie dans Les Iles de la nuit d'Alain Grandbois," Grandbois vivant: Communications du colloque organisé par Centre de recherche en poésie québécois, ed. Alex.Amprimoz. Montréal: l'Hexagone, 1980. 215-28.
• "Analyse structurale de Pleure pas, Germaine de Claude Jasmin," Coincidences, Université d'Ottawa, 1979. I.3: 7-24.

Conferences Organized/Co-organized

2018   Re-Surfacing: women writing across Canada in the 1970's; Refaire surface : écrivaines canadiennes des années 1970. 26-28 April 2018. 91��Ƭ-U de Moncton.   

2016   Speaking Her Mind: Canadian Women and Public Presence 20-22 October 2016, University of Calgary.

2016   "Dimensions of Difference: Patterns and Politics"  5-7 May 2016 91��Ƭ.

2015   Literary Passages Littéraires 12-13 March 2015 91��Ƭ-Université de Moncton.           

2014   Discourse and Dynamics: Canadian Women as Public Intellectuals 16-18 October 2014 91��Ƭ.

2013   Meeting Places, 18-21 September 2013. 91��Ƭ and St. Mary's universities.

2012   Public Poetics, 20-23 September 2012. 91��Ƭ.

2009   TransCanada 3: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship. 91��Ƭ, 16-19 July 2009 91��Ƭ.

2009    Archives and the Canadian Narrative - Re:Telling Canada's Stories and Regional Archives in the Digital Universe," 91��Ƭ, 10-12 June 2009.

2009    Canadian Studies: The State of the Art,  91��Ƭ, 12-14 February 2009.

2008    O.Canada/Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory Symposium, University of Alberta, 17-19 April 2008.

2007    TransCanada Two: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship, Guelph University, October.

2007    Taking a Stand: A Conference on Activism in Canadian Cultural Archives,  Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, 12-14 June 2007.

2005    "'Turning the knobs on writers' closets': Archives and Canadian Literature," McMaster University 24-26 May 2005. 

2005    Beyond Autoethnography: Writing Race and Ethnicity in Canada, Wilfrid Laurier University, 29-30 April 2005.

2004    Re/Writing the Past: Literature and History, (co-organizer Joanne Saul), Wilfrid Laurier University, 27 February 2004.

2003    Niagara!  An interdisciplinary conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Canadian Studies 24-26 April 2003.    

1998    Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies, Funded by the Ford Foundation. Trent University, June 1999.

1995    "The Windy Pine Colloquium: Ethnic and Racial Minority Writing and Criticism in Canada," Trent University, 24‑27 August 1995.

1994    "Making Canadian Culture," six workshops Fall 1994-Spring1995. Trent University.

1990    "Moving Forward: Creating a Feminist Agenda for the 1990 s," National Women's Conference Trent University, Peterborough, 15‑17 June 1990.