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Retired Faculty

Kenneth Borris

Position: Professor

Stream: Literature

Degree(s):

Ph.D. (Edinburgh)
B.A. (Victoria, B.C.)

Previously Taught: University of Victoria, University of Alberta

Area(s): Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton; early modern dramatic and nondramatic literary forms; early modern philosophy, theology, sciences, and culture; allegory; the sublime; fantasy; mythography; iconography; early modern history of sexuality; ancient and early modern theories of the body and mind; early modern visual and decorative arts; Renaissance humanism; modernism

Selected Publications: 

Books

Visionary Spenser and the Poetics of Early Modern Platonism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)

Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature: Heroic Form in Sidney, Spenser, and Milton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), xii, 320 pp. Reissued in paperback by Cambridge, 2008.

Spenser’s Poetics of Prophecy in “The Faerie Queene” V (Victoria, BC: University of Victoria Press, 1991), 93 pp.

Edited Collections

Articles and Chapters

Essays in Serials and Contributed Volumes

  • "Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadias," in The Ashgate Research Companion to the Sidneys, 1500-1700, ed. Margaret P. Hannay et al., 2 vols. (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), 2: 89-111.
  • "Hymnic Epic and The Faerie Queene's Original Printed Format: Canto-Canticles and Psalmic Arguments," Renaissance Quarterly 64.4 (2011): 1148-93. Co-authored with Meredith Donaldson Clark.
  • “Allegory, Symbol, Emblem,” The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser, ed. Richard A. McCabe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 437-60.
  • “Introduction: Spenser and Platonism,” by Kenneth Borris, Jon Quitslund, and Carol Kaske, Spenser Studies, XXIV (2009), pp. 1-14.
  • “Platonism and Spenser’s Poetic: Idealized Imitation, Merlin’s Mirror, and the Florimells,” Spenser Studies, XXIV (2009), pp. 209-68.
  • “Reassessing Ellrodt: Critias and The Fowre Hymnes in The Faerie Queene,” Spenser Studies, XXIV (2009), pp. 453-80.
  • “Introduction: The Prehistory of Homosexuality in the Early Modern Sciences,” in The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe, ed. Kenneth Borris and George Rousseau (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 1-40.
  • “Sodomizing Science: Cocles, Patricio Tricasso, and the Constitutional Morphologies of Renaissance Male Same-Sex Lovers,” in The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe, ed. Kenneth Borris and George Rousseau (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 137-64.
  • “Sub Rosa: Pastorella’s Allegorical Homecoming, and Closure in the 1596 Faerie Queene,” Spenser Studies 21 (2006): 133-80.
  • “Flesh, Spirit, and the Glorified Body: Spenser’s Anthropomorphic Houses of Pride, Holiness, and Temperance,” Spenser Studies 15 (2001): 17-52.
  • “R[ichard] B[arnfield]’s Homosocial Engineering in Orpheus His Journey to Hell,” in The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield, ed. Kenneth Borris and George Klawitter (Selinsgrove and London: Susquehanna–Associated University Presses, 2001), pp. 332-60.
  • “‘Ile hang a bag and a bottle at thy back’”: Barnfield’s Homoerotic Advocacy and the Construction of Homosexuality,” in The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield, ed. Kenneth Borris and George Klawitter (Selinsgrove and London: Susquehanna–Associated University Presses, 2001), pp. 193-248.
  • “Milton’s Heterodoxy of the Incarnation and Subjectivity in De Doctrina Christiana and Paradise Lost,” in Living Texts: Interpreting Milton, ed. Charles Durham and Kris Pruitt (Selinsgrove and London: Susquehanna–Associated University Presses, 2000), pp. 264-82.
  • “Elizabethan Allegorical Epics: The Arcadias as Counterparts of The Faerie Queene,” Spenser Studies 13 (1999): 191-221.
  • “Union of Mind or in Both One Soul: Allegories of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost,” Milton Studies, 31 (1995): 45-71.
  • “Geoffrey Whitney’s Choice of Emblemes: Anglo-Dutch Politics and the Order of Ideal Repatriation,” Emblematica, 8/1 (1994): 81-132.
  • “Allegory in Paradise Lost: Satan’s Cosmic Journey,” Milton Studies 26 (1991): 101-33. Nominated for the Hanford Award.
  • “‘Diuelish Ceremonies’: Allegorical Satire of Protestant Extremism in The Faerie Queene VI.viii.31-51,” Spenser Studies, 8 (1990): 173-207. Winner of the Isabel MacCaffrey Prize for the best Spenser article published internationally in 1990.
  • “Fortune, Occasion, and the Allegory of the Quest in Book Six of The Faerie Queene,” Spenser Studies, 7 (1987): 123-45, 301-9.

Notes

  • “The ‘Problem’ of Homosexuality: Pietro d’Abano (Peter of Abano), Expositio Problematum Aristotelis (Mantua: per . . . Paulum Iohannis de Puzpach [i.e., Butzbach], 1475, Bibl. Osl. 245,” in 75 Books from the Osler Library, ed. Faith Wallis and Pamela Miller (Montreal: Osler Library of the History of Medicine, 2004), pp. 136-7.
  • “The Sacraments in The Faerie Queene, in “Spenser’s Theology: The Sacraments in The Faerie Queene,” Reformation, 6 (2002): 145-54.
  • “Critical Introduction: Barnfield’s Reception and Significance,” in The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield, ed. Kenneth Borris and George Klawitter (Selinsgrove and London: Susquehanna–Associated University Presses, 2001), pp. 13-24.
  • “Geoffrey Whitney,” in Sixteenth-Century Non-Dramatic Authors, Second Series, Vol. 136 of The Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit: Bruccoli-Clark-Layman, 1994), pp. 336-40.
  • “Richard Barnfield,” in Sixteenth-Century Non-Dramatic Authors, Third Series, Vol. 172 of The Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit: Bruccoli-Clark-Layman, 1996), pp. 10-16.
  • “Courtesy,” in The Spenser Encyclopedia (Toronto: Unversity of Toronto Press, 1990), pp. 194-5.
  • “Salvage Man,” in The Spenser Encyclopedia (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990), p. 624.

Awards, Honours, and Fellowships: 

  • SSHRC Standard Research Grants, 1998-2001, 2004-2007, 2011-2014
  • Canada Research Fellow, 1987-92
  • Senior Fellowships at Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto
  • Isabel MacCaffrey Prize, 1990 (best essay on Spenser published that year)
  • McGill Humanities Research and Arts Legacy Grants
  • SSHRCC Doctoral Fellow, 1982-85
  • Commonwealth Doctoral Fellow, 1980-83

Dorothy Bray

Position: Associate Professor

Stream: Literature

Degree(s): 

B.A. (McGill)
Ph.D., Celtic Studies (Edinburgh)

Previously Taught: McMaster University, University of Durham

Area(s): Medieval studies, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon; early Irish hagiography; heroic tradition; Celtic folklore and mythology; women saints and women’s spirituality

Selected Publications: 

Books

  • A List of Motifs in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints (Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1993)

Articles and Chapters

  • ‘The Vita Prima of St. Brigit: A Preliminary Analysis of Its Composition.’ Narrative in Celtic Tradition: Essays in Honour of Edgar M. Slotkin. Ed. Joseph F. Nagy. CSANA Yearbook 8-9 (Colgate University Press), 1-15.
  • ‘Ireland’s Other Apostle: Cogitosus’ Saint Brigit.’ Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 59 (Summer 2010): 55-70.
  • ‘Further on White Red-Eared Cows in Fact and Fiction.’ Peritia 19 (2005): 239-255.
  • ‘Miracles and Wonders in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints’ in Celtic Hagiography and Saints’ Cults, ed. Jane Cartwright (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002): 136-147.
  • ‘Malediction and Benediction in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints.’ Studia Celtica 36 (2002): 47-58. [published March 2003]
  • ‘The Study of Folk-Motifs in Early Irish Hagiography: Problems of Approach, and Rewards at Hand.’ In Studies in Irish Hagiography: Saints and Scholars, ed. John Carey, Máire Herbert, Pádraig Ó Riain (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001): 268-277.
  • "Suckling at the Breast of Christ: a spiritual lesson in an Irish hagiographical motif." Peritia 14 (2000): 282-296.
  • "The Manly Spirit of St. Monenna," in Celtic Connections, Vol. 1, ed. R. Black et al. (East Linton, 1999): 171-181.
  • "Secunda Brigida: Saint Ita of Killeedy and Brigidine Tradition", in Celtic Languages and Celtic People (1992): 27-38.
  • "Heroic Tradition in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints," in Proceedings of the First North American Congress of Celtic Studies (1988): 261-71.
  • "The Image of St. Brigit in the Early Irish Church," Études Celtiques 24 (1987): 209-215.
  • "Allegory in the Navigatio Sancti Brendani," Viator 26 (1995): 1-10.

Awards, Honours, and Fellowships:  

  • FCAC Bourse de recherche, British Council Personal Grant

Nathalie M. Cooke

Position: Professor

Stream: Literature

Degree(s): 

B.Ed., M.A., Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
M.A. (Cornell)
B.A. (Queen's University, Kingston)

Area(s): women’s life writing; Canadian literature; social food studies; history of print; ephemera studies

Selected Publications: 

Books

  • Tastes and Traditions: An Illustrated Journey Through Menu History (Reaktion Press, 2025)
  • with Shelley Boyd, Canadian Literary Fare (Winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023)
  • Margaret Atwood: A Critical Companion (Greenwood Press, 2004)
  • Margaret Atwood: A Biography (ECW Press 1998)

Edited Volumes

  • with Fiona Lucas, Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide, Cooking with a Canadian Classic. (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017)
  • with Kathryn Harvey, The Family Treasury: A Collection of Household and Medicinal Receipts, 1741-1848 (Rocks Mills Press, 2015)
  • with Norm Ravvin, "Mordecai Richler," Canadian Literature 204. (August 2011) 
  • What’s to Eat? Entrées in Canadian Food History (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009)
  • Founding editor of Cuizine: the Journal of Canadian Food Cultures, an online, born-digital, peer-reviewed and indexed journal published by the McGill Library. Érudit, Montreal: 2008- 
  • with Suzanne Morton, re-editions of Phyllis Brett Young’s novels The Torontonians (1960) and Psyche (1959) (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007-2008)
  • with Donna Bennett and Russell Brown. An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English, Revised and Abridged (Oxford University Press, 1990)

Articles and Chapters

(selected papers available on SSRN | selected papers on Canadian Literary Fare)

  • *“Eat Your Riddles: Puzzling Practices and Dining Diversions,” Food Rules and Rituals - Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2023. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. July 2024. 118-127.
  • *with Sundberg, J., and Litvack-Katzman, (June 2024). From Archive to Interaction: Two Case-Studies in Exhibiting Digital Collections. IDEAH, 4 (3).
  • with Jacquelyn Sundberg, “How encrypted Victorian newspaper personal ads shaped fiction like Sherlock and Enola Holmes,” The Conversation (1 May 2023). 4,692 reads by May 2023.
  •  “’There Are as Many Sorts of Mango as of Apples’: The Gwillim Archive and the Emergence of Anglo-Indian Cuisine.” Women, Environment, and Networks of Empire: Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds in Madras. Eds. Anna Winterbottom, Victoria Dickenson, Ben Cartwright and Lauren Williams (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023): 231-247.  
  • with Anna Dysert, and Merika Ramundo, “Edible Enigmas: Food Riddles and Enigmatical Bills of Fare?” in Collections Thinking: Within and Without Libraries, Archives and Museums. Eds. Jason Camlot, Martha Langford & Linda Morra. (Routledge, 2023): 75-90.   
  • “Reflecting on Home and Away – Over a Canadian Meal.” in A Taste of Home: Les saveurs de chez soi. Eds. Ylenia De Luca and Oriana Palusci (Guernica World Editions, 2022): 1-40.  
  • with Nora Shaalan, “Database Dishes.” in The Teaching with Archives & Special Collections Cookbook. Ed. by Julie M. Porterfield. (Association of College & Research Libraries, 2021)
  • with Leehu Sigler, “Riddling Menus: A History,” Petits Propos Culinaires 120 (Prospect Books, 2021): 13-45. 
  • “Vanns Spices: Blending Food, Women’s Friendship and Business in 1980s Baltimore.” Food and Foodways: Explorations in the History and Culture of Human Nourishment. 28.4 (2020): 297-319.
  • “Montreal in the Culinary Imagination” in Canadian Culinary Imaginations, Eds. Shelley Boyd and Dorothy Barenscott. (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020): 117-145.  
  • with Shelley Boyd and Alexia Moyer, “A Literary History of the Mandarin Orange in Canada.” Gastronomica, vol. 20 , no. 1, (Spring 2020): 83-89.
  • with Jennifer Garland, “Reflection: Lived and Idealized Self and Other in Women’s Journals,” in  Women and the Periodical Press in China's Long Twentieth Century: A Space of Their Own? , Eds. Michel Hockx, Joan Judge and Barbara Mittler (Cambridge University Press, 2018): 215-217. 
  • “Writing the Chinese Restaurateur into the Canadian Literary Landscape.” Studies in Canadian Literature. 42.2 (2018): 5-25.
  • with Alexia Moyer, “Measuring Out Life in Coffee Spoons: Canadian Literary Breakfasts.” CuiZine: The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures. 8.1 (2017). Released 12 June 2018.
  • “Stories of Rice Lake -- Stewards, Settlers and Storytellers,” Food and Landscape, Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2017. Editor, Mark McWilliams (Prospect Books, 2018): 99-109. 
  • "Lessons from Generations Past: Timely and Timeless Communication Strategies of Some Canadian Cooks of Note," Food and Communication, Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2015. Ed. Mark McWilliams. (Prospect Books, 2016): 131-142. 
  • "Canadian Food Radio: Conjuring Nourishment for Canadians Out of Thin Air." How Canadians Communicate. Ed, Charlene Elliott (University of Athabasca Press, 2016): 107-128. 
  • "Canadian Cookbooks: Changing Ideas about Cooking and Contamination, 1854–1898," Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 32.2 (October 2015): 297-318.
  • “Spreading Controversy: The Story of Margarine in Quebec.” Edible Histories: A Canadian Food History Anthology, Ed. Marlene Epp, Valerie Korinek, Franca Iacovetta (2012): 249-268.

Reviews and Public Scholarship

Public Scholarship 

Study Guides 

  • “An Introduction to the Illustrated Menu Collection.” (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022)
  • with Shelley Boyd, “What is ‘Restaurant Literature’? Depictions of Chinese Restaurants in Canadian Literature,” a CanLit Guide (a pedagogical initiative of the journal Canadian Literature), 2017. See here. 
  • Curated Exhibitions and General Audience Outputs 
  • with Ronny Litvack-Katzman, Jacquelyn Sundberg, Octavian Sopt, News and Novel Sensations: Victorian Novels and Newspaper Agony Ads. McLennan Library. 11 January – 31 March, 2023.  
  • with Kristen Howard, Leehu Sigler, Octavian Sopt, Jacquelyn Sundberg, Food for Thought: Riddles and Riddling Ways. McLennan Library. 1 February -1 July, 2022.  
  • with Irina Mihalache and Elizabeth Ridolfo, Mixed Messages: Making and Shaping Culinary Culture in Canada. Fisher Library, University of Toronto. 24 May 2018- September 2018. Catalogue: Mixed Messages: Making and Shaping Culinary Culture in Canada (Coach House Press, 2018).  

Publication files:
cooke_canadian_literary_fare.pdf
cooke_montreal_in_the_culinary_imagination.pdf
cooke_canadian_food_radio.pdf

Awards, Honours, and Fellowships:  

Teaching Awards   

  • Scholarly and Research Communication Journal Innovation Award for "The CanLit Guides Project," 2019  
  • Royal Bank Teaching Innovation Awards, 2004, 1995 
  • Carrie Derrick Award for Graduate Teaching, McGill, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 2002 
  • Inaugural Louis Dudek Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence in the McGill English Department, 1996 

Scholarly Awards 

  • Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Literature Fare, 2023
  • Society for the History of Natural History President's Medal for "The Gwillim Project," 2022
  • Lifetime Honorary Member, Canadian Historians of Canada, October 2022
  • Silver, in the Cuisine Canada Book Awards for What’s to Eat?, 2010

Select Research Grants 

  • SSHRC Insight Development Grant, “Ciphers of the Times, Cryptic Communications in Victorian England”  
  • SSHRC Connections Grant. “PlayOn! What Happens When Libraries Play?”  
  • SSHRC Insight Development Grant. “Food For Thought.”  
  • SSHRC Connections Grant. “Rare collections at the heart of campus and community.”  
  • Co-investigator, SSHRC Insight Grant. "The Richler Library Project: Historicizing, Processing, Developing and Theorizing the Author’s Personal Library as Collection.”  
  • Co-investigator, SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Scripting Futures: A Narratological Investigation of How International Organizations Shape National Realities.

Link(s):
Canadian Literary Fare

Max Dorsinville

Position: Professor

Degree(s):

B.A., M.A. (Sherbrooke)
Ph.D. (C.U.N.Y.)

Area(s): Caribbean, Postcolonial and Modernist literature; Modernism; fiction; Derek Walcott's poetry; Memorial Postcolonial Writing

Selected Publications:

  • (Ed.) 1946: Le Journal de Robert Brémont (Montreal: CIDIHCA, 2008) (forthcoming)
  • (Ed.) Le Monde de Robert Brémont (Montreal: CIDIHCA, 2007)
  • (Trans.) A Brief History of the Black Communities in Canada (Montreal: CIDIHCA, 2007)
  • (Ed.) L’Ombre de Duvalier (Montreal: CIDIHCA, 2007)
  • (Ed.) Mémoires de la décolonisation (Montréal: Editions Mémoire d'Encrier, 2006)
  • (Author) A Haitian's Coming of Age in 1959. (2005)
  • (author) “Roger Dorsinville en trois temps” in M-A Sourieau and K. Balutansky, eds. Écrire en pays assiégé/ Haïti / Writing Under Siege (New York, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004)
  • (Author) Understanding Contemporary Cuba in Visual and Verbal Forms (2004).
  • (Ed.) Pour célébrer la terre suivi de Poétique de l'exil (2004).
  • (Ed.) The Collected Edition of Roger Dorsinville's Postcolonial Literary Criticism in Africa, 2 vol. (2003).
  • (Ed. and trans.) A Critical Edition of Haitian Writer Roger Dorsinville's Memoirs of Haiti (2002).
  • (Ed. and trans.) A Critical Edition of Roger Dorsinville's Memoirs of Africa (2002).
  • (Ed. and trans.) Postcolonial Stories...: In the Shadow of Conrad's Marlow (2001).
  • (Ed. and trans.) The Rule of Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier...: Realism and Magic Realism in Haiti (2000).
  • (author) "The Heat of Home: Metaphors of Incorporation in Derek Walcott's Poetry," Anglistica 3:1 (1999), 33-58.
  • Erzulie Loves Shango (Novel) (1998).
  • "Ronald Sutherland," in The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. (2nd ed. 1997): 103-104.
  • James Wait (Novel) (1995).
  • (editor) Rites de passage 10 vols (Port-au-Prince: Deschamps, 1990)
  • Solidarités: Tiers-Monde et littérature comparée (1988).
  • Le Pays natal: Essais sur les littératures du Tiers-Monde et du Québec (1983).
  • Caliban without Prospero: Essay on Quebec and Black Literature (1974).

Awards, Honours, and Fellowships:

  • Canada Council Leave Fellowship
  • Humanities Research Council and Multiculturalism Directorate Publication Grants
  • McGill Graduate Faculty International Travel and Research Grants

Peter Gibian

Position: Professor

Stream: Literature

Degree(s):

B.A. (Yale)
M.A. (New York University)
Ph.D. (Stanford)

Area(s): American literature and culture before 1900 (especially mid-19th-c. "American Renaissance"); short story; public sphere theory; oral models for writing (oratory, conversation); cosmopolitanism, internationalism, transnationalism; critical theory

Selected Publications:

Books

Awarded the Best Book Prize in 2001-02 by NEASA, the New England American Studies Association

Articles and chapters

  • “Writing between Worlds: Washington Irving and the Cosmopolitan Tradition in American Literature and Art” (In Progress)
  • “Competing Spatial Impulses in the Cosmopolitan World of George Washington Cable’s New Orleans,” special issue of Romantisme, on “New Scales of Regionalist Writing,” (Winter 2018).
  • “Beyond Aesthetic Tourism: Travelers and Locals in Sargent’s Self-Reflexive Subject Pictures,” in A Seamless Web: Transatlantic Art in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Marian Wardle and Cheryll L. May (2014). Link to chapter:
  • “The Lecture Room as Contact Zone: Bayard Taylor’s Travel Lectures,” in The Cosmopolitan Lyceum, ed. Thomas Wright (2013)
  • “Anticipating Aestheticism: The Dynamics of Reading and Reception in Poe,” in Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective, ed. Viorica Patea (2012)
  • “Hale’s ‘The Man Without a Country’ and America’s Postwar Crisis of National Belonging,” CRAS (Canadian Review of American Studies) (2012)
  • “The Image and Its Discontents: Hawthorne, Poe, and the Double Bind of ‘Iconoclash’,” Journal of the Short Story in English 56 (Spring 2011)
  • “Levity and Gravity in Twain: The Bipolar Dynamics of the Early Tales,” reprint of 1994 journal article, in Mark Twain’s Short Stories, ed. Harold Bloom (2011)
  • “Dr. Holmes: The Life in Conversation,” Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters, (Harvard University Medical School, 2009).
  • “Herman Melville, Cosmopolitanism, and Traveling Culture,” The Blackwell Companion to Herman Melville (2006)
  • "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table," American History through Literature, 1820-1870 ( 2006)
  • “L’implicite, l’implication, et la complicité dans deux contes d’Edgar Poe,” L'Implicite dans la nouvelle de langue anglaise (2005)
  • "Conversations with Whitman," The Mickle Street Review (October 2004).
  • "A 'Traveling Culture': Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature," Annals of Scholarship (Spring 2002)
  • "The Old Order on the Threshold of the Modern: James, Wharton, Adams," in The American Century (1999)
  • "People Movers: Snow, Pound, Muybridge and the Stop-Action Arts of Consumer Culture," in American Modernism Across the Arts (1999)
  • "Defining the Oratorical Culture of Victorian America: Elocutionary Style and Political Stance in Walt Whitman and Edward Everett," Intellectual History (Fall 1994)
  • "The Art of Being Off-Center": Shopping Center Spaces and Spectacles," Signs of Life in the U.S.A. (1994)
  • "Opening and Closing the Conversation: Style and Stance from Holmes Senior to Holmes Junior," in The Legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1992)

Book Reviews

  • in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Journal of American History, New England Quarterly, American Historical Review, Modern Philology.

Awards, Honours, and Fellowships:

  • Louis Dudek Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2024-25 (English Dept., McGill University)
  • Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 2009 (McGill University)
  • Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Research Grant, 2006-2009
  • Louis Dudek Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2007-08 (English Dept., McGill University)
  • Lois Rudnick Prize for Best Book in 2001-02 (given by New England chapter of the American Studies Association)
  • NASSA Teaching Award, North American Studies Student Association, McGill University, 2005
  • H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching (given by Faculty of Arts, McGill University, 2003)

Publication files:

Berkeley Kaite

Position: Associate Professor

Stream: Cultural Studies

Degree(s): 

B.A. (Concordia)
M.A. (McMaster)
Ph.D. (Carleton)

Previously Taught: Carleton University, Simone de Beauvoir Institute - Concordia University

Area(s): feminist cultural studies; cultural memory and popular media; the body

Selected Publications: 

Books

  • Editor, Menstruation Now: What Does Blood Perform? (Demeter, 2019)
  • Pornography and Difference (1995)

Articles and Chapters

  • “Bloody Jackie: how menstrual blood speaks for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s silence” in Menstruation Now: What Does Blood Perform? (2019)
  • “Camelot: the violence and the ecstasy,” Teorija in Praksa. 5-6, Sept-Dec (2013)
  • “Fetish Operations in the Photographs of Sally Mann,” Mothering and Psychoanalysis, ed., Petra Bueskens. Toronto: Demeter Press (2014)
  • Reviews of Canadian Cultural Poesis; Caught: Montréal’s Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-194;, and, Types of Canadian Women in Canadian Literature
  • “The Pink Suit: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Celebrity Defilement,” Celebrity Studies.

Awards, Honours, and Fellowships:

  • SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship

Leanore Lieblein

Position: Professor

Stream: Literature

Degree(s): 

B.A. (City College of New York)
M.A., Ph.D. (Rochester)

Previously Taught: City College of New York, University of Rochester

Area(s): drama and dramatic theory, Renaissance literature; Shakespeare in France and French Canada; the Shakespearean body; the concept of character

Selected Publications: 

Books

  • A Certain William: Adapting Shakespeare in Francophone Canada (2009)

Articles and Chapters

  • “Embodied Intersubjectivity and the Creation of Early Modern Character.” In Shakespeare and Character: Theory, History, Performance, and Theatrical Persons, ed. Paul Yachnin and Jessica Slights (2009).
  • “Pourquoi Shakespeare?” in Shakespeare: Made in Canada, ed. Daniel Fischlin and Judith Nasby (2007)
  • “Nuancing Diversity: The Boyokani Company Hamlet.” alt.theatre: Cultural Diversity and the Stage, 4.2-3 (May 2006): 22-24; 31.
  • “Corporeal Ecology and European Otherness on the Shakespearean Stage.” In Shakespeare et l’Europe de la Renaissance, ed. Pierre Kapitanik (2004).
  • “My breasts sear'd": The Self-Starved Female Body and A Woman Killed with Kindness.” (With Christopher Frey.) Early Theatre, 7.1 (2004): 45-66.
  • “Le Re-making of Le Grand Will” In “A World elsewhere?”: Canadian Shakespeare, ed. Diana Brydon and Irena Makaryk (2002).
  • “Interrogating the Shakespearean Body,” CTR 111 (Summer 2002): 15-21.
  • “Shakespeare in Francophone Quebec,” Internet Shakespeare Editions.
  • “Alfred Pellan, Twelfth Night, and the Modernist Shakespeare” (with Patrick Neilson), Shakespeare Yearbook 11 (2000): 389-422.
  • Editor, “Traversees de Shakespeare” (Dossier), L'Annuaire Theatral, 24 (automne 1998): 9-138.
  • “Theatre Archives at the Intersection of Production and Reception,” inTextual and Theatrical Shakespeare: Questions of Evidence (1996).
  • “`Les Grecs' à la francaise,” TRI 18.2 (1993): 123-37.
  • “East Berlin Theatre Diary,” JDTC 6 (Fall 1991): 106-23.
  • “Translation and Mise-en-Scène,” JDTC 5 (Fall 1990:81-94.
  • “The Politics of Renaissance Culture,” in L'Europe de la Renaissance(1989): 49-64.
  • “Flexible Iconography: The Experience of the Spectator of Medieval Religious Drama,” Le Moyen francais 19 (1988): 135-47.
  • “Jan Kott, Peter Brook, and King Lear,” JDTC 1.2 (1987): 39-49.
  • Co-translator of Les Esbahis (1561).
  • Director of Everyman, Calderon de la Barca's Life Is a Dream, Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Love of the Nightingale, the Towneley Pharaoh, and Slaying of Abel; co-director of George Peele's Old Wives Tale.

Kerry McSweeney

Position: Molson Professor of English

Stream: Literature

Degrees:

B.A., Ph.D. (University of Toronto)

Previously Taught: Queen's University, University of Warwick, University of Victoria

Area(s): 19th- and 20th-century fiction and poetry; aesthetic readings of poems and short stories

Selected Publications:

Books

 

  • The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse: Chekhov to Carver (2007).
  • What’s the Import? Nineteenth-Century Poems and Contemporary Critical Practice (2007).
  • The Language of the Senses: Sensory-Perceptual Dynamics in Wordsworth, Coleridge, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dickinson (1998).
  • Supreme Attachments: Studies in Victorian Love Poetry (1998).
  • George Eliot: A Literary Life (1991; 1996).
  • "Invisible Man": Race and Identity (1988).
  • "Moby-Dick": Ishmael's Mighty Book (1986).
  • "Middlemarch" (1984).
  • Four Contemporary Novelists: Angus Wilson, Brian Moore, John Fowles, V.S. Naipaul (1983).
  • Tennyson and Swinburne as Romantic Naturalists (1981).
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Aurora Leigh. Oxford World’s Classics (1993; third printing 1994; reissued 1998).
  • Thomas Carlyle. Sartor Resartus (with Peter Sabor). Oxford World’s Classics (1987; reprinted1991; reissued 1999)
  • Angus Wilson. Diversity and Depth in Fiction: Selected Critical Writings (1983).

Articles and Chapters

  • "Dream Representations in Wuthering Heights, Crime and Punishment, and War and Peace." Symposium 59 (2005): 163-78.
  • "Literary Allusion and the Poetry of Seamus Heaney." Style 33 (1999): 130-43.
  • "David Copperfield and the Music of Memory." Dickens Studies Annual 23 (1994): 93-119.
  • "Intimations of Wordsworth in A. M. Klein's ‘Autobiographical’." Canadian Poetry 35 (1994): 74-9.
  • "The Silver-Grey Discourse of The Music of Time." English Studies in Canada 18 (1992): 43-58.
  • "The Ending of The Mill on the Floss." English Studies in Canada 12 (1986): 55-68.
  • "Mordecai Richler." Canadian Writers and their Works, fiction Series vol. 6 (1985).
  • "Salinger Revisited." Critical Quarterly 20 (1978): 61-68

Patrick Neilson

Position: Associate Professor

Stream: Drama & Theatre

Degree(s):

B.A. (Bishop's)
M.F.A. (Calgary)

Area(s): theatre design, theatre history; design for Shakespeare, Canadian designers and stage design; theatrical iconography; theatrical use of non-theatre spaces

Selected Designs: 

  • The Duchess of Malfi by Webster (1994).
  • King John by Shakespeare (1994).
  • Ten Lost Years by G. Luscombe (1994).
  • Rubber Dolly by D. Hannah (1990).
  • Twelfth Night by Shakespeare (1991).
  • Bonjour, là, Bonjour by M. Tremblay (1991).
  • Directed The Rivals (1990).
  • Set and costume design for The Ecstasy of Rita Joe (1989).

Peter Ohlin

Position: Professor

Area(s): Swedish cinema (in particular the works of Ingmar Bergman); and American Literature (especially the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and James Agee)

Selected Publications:

  • "The Holocaust in Ingmar Bergman's Persona: The Instability of Imagery." Scandinavian Studies 77.2 (Summer 2005): 241-274.
  • "Bergman's Nazi Past." Scandinavian Studies 
  • Wordless Secrets: Ingmar Bergman's Persona and the Modernist Project. Forthcoming in Studies in Nordic Cinema and Literature.

Peter Sabor

Position: Distinguished James McGill Professor Emeritus

Stream: Literature

Degree(s):

Ph.D. (London)
M.A. (Queen’s)
M.A. (Cambridge)
B.A. (Cambridge)

Previously Taught: Laval University, Queen’s University, University of Calgary

Area(s): fiction; archives and bibliography; restoration and eighteenth-century literature; book history; history & theory of the novel; textual editing

Selected Publications:

Books and Edited Volumes

Awards, honours, and fellowships:

  • Royal Society of Canada, Fellow since 2008
  • Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge, January-March 2024
  • Visiting Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford, January-March 2022
  • Visiting Fellow, St Edmund Hall, Oxford, January-March 2020
  • Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge, January-March 2019
  • Visiting Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford, January-March 2016
  • Traveling Lecturer, Jane Austen Society of North America, 2016-2018
  • Donald and Mary Hyde Fellow, Houghton Library, Harvard University, October 2015
  • Visiting Fellow, Chawton House Library, August 2015
  • SSHRC Insight Grant, 2020-2026; 2012-2017
  • Canada Research Chair, 2017-2024, 2010-2017, 2003-2010
  • SSHRC Standard Research Grants, 2009-2012, 2006-2009, 2002-2005, 1999-2002, 1996-1999
  • Marjorie Wynne Fellow, Beinecke Library, Yale University, May 2008

Marianne A. Stenbaek

Position: Professor

Stream: Cultural Studies

Degree(s):

Ph.D. English (Université de Montréal)
M.A. English, (Université de Montréal) 
B.A. (equivalent), English, (University of Copenhagen)
Certificat de Français (Université de Paris at Institut Français in Copenhagen)

Area(s): Nunavimmiut writings; contemporary post-colonial Greenlandic and Nunavik literatures; Labrador; Canadian Northern Regions; digital technologies; imperialism; decolonization; reconciliation

Selected publications:

(*R) indicates grants by SSHRC including SSHRC Institutional Grants

Books

  • Grey, Minnie and Stenbaek, Marianne. Eds Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut: Economic Development, Part II, Vol. VIII. 290 pp. Montreal, Distributed by McGill-Queens Press, 2013.
  • Grey, Minnie and Stenbaek, Marianne. Eds Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut: Economic Development, Part I, Vol. VII. 290 pp. Montreal, Distributed by McGill-Queens Press, 2013.
  • Grey, Minnie and Stenbaek, Marianne. Eds Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut: Children and Youth, Vol. IV. 290 pp. Montreal, Distributed by McGill-Queens Press, 2013.
  • Grey, Minnie and Stenbaek, Marianne. Eds Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut: Environment I, Vol. V. 254 pp. Montreal, Distributed by McGill-Queens Press, 2013
  • Grey, Minnie and Stenbaek, Marianne. Eds Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut: Environment II, Vol. VI. 187 pp. Montreal, Distributed by McGill-Queens Press, 2013.
  • Grey, Minnie and Stenbaek, Marianne. Eds Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut: Health, Vol. III. 290 pp. Montreal, Distributed by McGill-Queens Press, 2013.
  • Grey, Minnie and Stenbaek, Marianne. Eds. Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut: Way of Life. Vol. II. 287 pp. IPI Press/UPNE. April 2011
  • Grey, Minnie and Marianne Stenbaek, Eds. Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut: Stories and Tales. Vol I. 286 pp. Hanover: IPI Press/UPNE. October 2010.
  • (*R) Grenfell, W. Vikings of Today (re-print). Introduction by Marianne Stenbaek. 304 pp. Hanover: IPI/ UPNE. 2010
  • (*R) Lynge, Aqqaluk and Stenbaek, Marianne. Inuit Arctic Policy, an updated version of Principles and Elements of a Comprehensive Arctic Policy. pp.125. In electronic printed format. 2010.
  • (R*) Lynge, Aqqaluk. Taqqat uummammut aqqutaannut takorluukkat apuuffiannut/The Veins of the Heart to the Pinnacle of the Mind. Introduction and translation by Marianne Stenbaek. 134 pp. Hanover: IPI/UPNE. 2008. Has also been published in French at Les Presses de l’Université du Québec., 2012.
  • (*R) Petersen, H.C. Kalaallit Ilisimaat: Pisuussutsit Uumassusillit Nunattalu Pissarititai Nalillit/Local Knowledge: Living Resources and Natural Assets in Greenland. A book on the traditional knowledge about whales, seals, reindeer, and culture as well as hunters’ customs and ethics. Translation, Introduction, Editing- Marianne Stenbaek. 485 pp. Hanover: IPI /UPNE, 2010.
  • (*R) Rosing, Peter Frederik and Stenbaek, Marianne. Four Generations--Kinguaariit sisamat—Fire generationer. 256 pp. Concept, translation, editing. Northern Voices. Distributed by Avataq Cultural Institute, 2013. Published in Greenlandic, English and Danish.
  • (*R) The Moravian Beginnings of Canadian Inuit Literature. Introduction: Marianne Stenbaek. Pp 110. Humanities and Social Sciences Library, McGill. 2009.

Refereed Contributions and Articles

  • “Entendre et communiquer les voix des Nunavimmiut’’ at Premier Colloque International sur le Nord Culturel, UQAM, Nov. 2012
  • "Written heritage of Nunavimmiut’’ at Inuit Studies Conference, Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Oct 2012
  • “Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut—a book series written by Nunavimmiut”. Makivik Magazine, 2012
  • “Mapping the Greenland Dichotomy” at Des Lieux du Nord Conference, UQAM, March 2012.
  • Presentation on the Inuit Arctic Policy Project at the Inuit Studies Conference at UQAT, October 2010.
  • "La Diplomatie Inuit," Spirale Magazine, no. 225, mars-avril 2009, p. 31. By invitation.
  • “Makivik’s Treasure Chest of Inuit Stories and History.” Makivik Magazine, 2009.
  • The Media Education of Inuit Children in Nunavik. ICASS/IASSA conference in Nuuk, Greenland. August 2008.

Public Scholarship

Other contributions, exhibits, popular articles, radio commentaries, and activities

  • Fifteen articles published in Sermitsiaq, Greenlandic national newspaper, between January –August, 2013 on issues and contemporary topics concerning Canadian Inuit. Topics include Arctic Sovereignty—what does it actually mean?; Nunatsiavut-a link between Greenland and Labrador.
  • Paper: “Mapping the Greenland Dichotomy” at Des Lieux du Nord Conference, UQAM, 2012.
  • Report: The Written Heritage of Nunavut. 136 pp. Workshop held at McGill, 2011.
  • Paper: Inuit Arctic Policy, 2010. Inuit Conference Studies. UQAT, 2010.
  • “Makivik’s Treasure Chest of Inuit Stories and History.” In Makivik Magazine, Spring 2009. By invitation.
  • Chair of International Panel on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: Université de Montréal, September 2009. By invitation.
  • "Arctic Sovereignty." Article in Sermitsiaq, Nuuk. 2008.
  • Presentation: Introduction to translated collection of Greenlandic poetry—The Veins of the Heart to the pinnacle of the Mind/Taqqat uummammut aqqutaannut takorluukkat apuuffiannut. Presented at a special event at The National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), May 2008.
  • “The Media Education of Inuit Children in Nunavik.” ICASS/IASSA Congress, Nuuk, Greenland. 2008.
  • Presentation: of poetry by Greenlandic writers: Aqqaluk Lynge and Jessie Kleemann at poetry reading/performance at the Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. May 2008.
  • Presentation and discussion of poetry by Greenlandic writers: Aqqaluk Lynge and Jessie Kleemann and to representatives of the US State Department and the Greenlandic and Danish Foreign Affairs at Joint Committee meetings in Washington, DC. May 2008. By invitation.
  • Presentation on “Northern/Arctic Studies and Research at McGill” at the ARCUS (The Arctic Research Consortium of the US) annual meeting in Washington, DC. May 2008.
  • Invited lecture at the 30th Anniversary Conference of ACUNS (Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies): Remarkable Changes: Reflection on Arctic Research in Canada. October 2008.
  • Lecture: “Modern Greenland”. Dartmouth College, Institute of the Arctic. 2007.
  • (*R) SSHRC Northern Research Development Grant. 2007-08. Principal investigator of Canadian contribution. Part of a larger IPY grant at the University of Greenland. On the basis of this development grant, other research projects developed as well as a book on children and media published by Ilisimatusarfik in 2011/12. Birgit Kleist Jette Rygaard

Radio and television

  • Interviewed on Radio Greenland and on Television Greenland several times.
  • Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa (The Greenlandic Broadcasting Corporation) Commentaries on Canadian Arctic and Circumpolar issues (1980-2013… ongoing).
  • Radio Denmark (the Danish Broadcasting Corporation). Commentaries and features on Canadian Affairs ( 1980-2013.. ongoing)

Workshops and exhibits

  • (*R) Report on Inuit writing workshop held at McGill, Sept 2012. Report published.
  • (*R) “The Written Heritage of Nunavut.” Workshop organized at McGill with SSHRC Grant. 2011. Report published.
  • (*R) Moravian Beginnings of Canadian Inuit Literature. Curated exhibition in conjunction with Sharon Rankin. McLennan Library, McGill University. Please see exhibition website at http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/moravian/index.php)
  • The First Encounter. Exhibit at the Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. May 18- July 1, 2005. On Arctic explorer William Bradford.
  • Festival of Greenland. A two-week cultural exhibit and event at the Museum of Natural History and the Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington. The event included a photographic exhibit by renowned arctic photographer Ivars Silis, a photographic exhibit by students from Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland), children’s art exhibits and story-telling, exhibits of modern Greenlandic art, children’s theatre by Makka Kleist, the Aavaat Greenlandic choir, a kayak-building workshop, seminars on Greenland and more. It was viewed by over 250,000 visitors and extended for an extra month due to its popularity, 2005. Marianne Stenbaek, together with William Fitzhugh, director of the Arctic Studies Center at the National Museum of Natural History, conceptualised, organised and ran the events. May- July 2005.

Research Contributions

Most Significant Career Research Contributions

  • There now is a strong focus on circumpolar research throughout Canada
  • Human and social sciences have become increasingly important in northern/Arctic science
  • Aboriginal peoples and their traditional knowledge are being included in important and meaningful ways. I strongly advocated the above three points during my tenure as president of ACUNS.
  • Students are being turned on to and becoming involved in northern/aboriginal and Arctic research and studies
  • A University situated in the Arctic is now finally being seriously considered. 25 years ago there was little understanding of these important components of our national identity. Now, it is almost taken for granted. My contributions to this field have been recognized not only by research grants but also by being awarded The Governor-General’s 125th Anniversary Medal for distinguished service to Northern Science in Canada and the Nersornaat medal for distinguished service to Greenland by the Greenlandic Parliament.

Contributions to the Training of Students

  • Participation in panel on research strategies for young researchers in the North. At ICASS conference, Nuuk, 2008. By invitation.
  • During the IPY project, Stenbaek and collaborators trained students and offered courses on Inuit-written heritage both at McGill University and UQAM.
  • Work with students on Arctic/northern research projects; prepare students for NSTP.
  • Appointed by the Inuit Circumpolar Council to be a board member for the Inuit Center for Human Rights, Nuuk, in order to facilitate Inuit student exchanges.

Additional information on publications and present work

  • (*R) Presently working on a bilingual website on Canadian Inuit. In English and French, based on the Nunavimmiut books. SSHRC Outreach Grant, 2012.
  • International Polar Year (IPY). Entendre et communiquer les voix du Nunavik/ Hearing and Sharing the Voices of Nunavik. IPY grant by Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Government of Canada. 2008-2011. Professor Daniel Chartier (UQAM), Principal Investigator. Marianne Stenbaek, Co- applicant. Among the deliverables were:
    • An exhibition, entitled The Moravian beginnings of Inuit Literature at McGill (January–April 2009). Co-curator.
    • A guide to the exhibit in English, French, Inuktitut, and Labradorean Inuktitut.
    • (*R) A catalogue with the complete exhibit and contextualizing introductions (2010). The Moravian Beginnings of Canadian Inuit Literature, 122 pp. Introduction on Inuit literature by Marianne Stenbaek.
    • Digitalization and indexing of all Makivik magazines (approx. 10,000 pages).Published on CD-ROMs by the Bibliothèque National du Québec. Based on these research sources were developed six Nunavimmiut books.
    • 2 websites (McGill/UQAM) http//www.inuktitut.org and http//digital.library.mcgill.ca/moravian/index.php
  • (*R) Learning from the Past-Lessons for the Future. The Traditional Knowledge of HC Petersen. 2008- 2009 (finished in 2010). Principal investigator. SSHRC International Research Opportunities Program. The deliverables were:
  • A book on the traditional knowledge on whales, seals, reindeer, and culture as well as hunters’ customs and ethics. 485 pp (IPI Press/UPNE). November 2010 (Prof. Marianne Stenbaek); in addition two DVD’s and a visual database of photographs with texts (Prof Daniel Chartier, UQAM) as well as a documentary film of HC Petersen (Prof. Jette Rygaard, Ilisimatusarfik, Greenland).
  • (*R) Development of an Updated Inuit Arctic Policy. This project was an updating of the previous Inuit policy document: Principles and Elements of a Comprehensive Arctic Policy. SSHRC grant: Northern Communities: Towards Social and Economic Prosperity (Special Call). Principal Investigator. Inuit Arctic Policy, an updated version of Principles and Elements of a Comprehensive Arctic Policy. Pp125. In electronic printed format. 2010. The work was completed as scheduled. It was presented at the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) General Assembly in Nuuk in June 2010, where Inuit delegates from Alaska, Greenland, and Chutkoka approved it. The deliverable is a 120 page monograph.
  • (*R) Three Women--Arnat Pingasut--Tre Kvinder (working title) 2007-2013. This is a study of three generations of Inuit women from a social and culturally prominent family in Greenland. In Greenlandic, English and Danish, 2012. Study supported by grants from Directorate of Culture and Research: The Greenland Home Rule, SSHRC Institutional grant, the Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland (KVUG), Denmark, the Institute of Arctic Studies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire and the Nordic Institute of Greenland (NAPA). Final title is Four Generations—Kinguaariit sisamat—Fire generationer.

Awards, honours, and fellowships:

Awards

  • Arts Undergraduate Society Award given ―In Recognition of Support for Students’ Interests and Initiatives (awarded twice in 2001 and 2002); Louis Dudek Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of English (2001); Noel Fieldhouse Award for Excellence in Teaching, Faculty of Arts (2000).
  • Board member of the Inuit Institute for Human Rights, Nuuk - 2007-Present
  • Appointed first Dickey Senior Research Fellow, Institute of the Arctic, Dartmouth College - 2007
  • First Encounter: the Arctic Photographs of William Bradford. Exhibit curator and writer exhibit held at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C. - 2005
  • Nersornaat, Medal of Honour for Distinctive Service, Greenland Home Rule Government - 2005
  • Arts Undergraduate Society Award for 2001-2002 Given “In Recognition of Support for Students’ Interests and Initiatives” - 2002
  • Louis Dudek Award for Excellence in Teaching, Faculty of Arts - 2001
  • Arts Undergraduate Society Award - 2001
  • Noel Fieldhouse Award for Excellence in Teaching, Faculty of Arts - 2000
  • Judge at the Student Video and Film Festival - 2000
  • Appointed by the Canadian Polar Commission to the Task Force on the Internationalization of Polar Science - 1994
  • Commemorative Medal for 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada, conferred by the Governor General in recognition of “Significant contributions to compatriots, community and to Canada” in Norther Science - 1993
  • Chernobyl Medal awarded for help to remediate efforts of radioactive fall-out in Chernobyl, awarded by the Ukrainian Minister of Chernobyl Affair - 1993
  • President of the IDEEA Federation (International Design for Extreme Environment Assembly) - 1993-94
  • Honorary Patron, Capital Campaign, Maison Waseskun House - 1993
  • Elected International Fellow of the Explorer’s Club, New York - 1991-
  • Chair, Research Panel on Arctic Global Change, Royal Society of Canada - 1992-94
  • President-elect of IDEEA TWO (International Design for Extreme Environments Assembly) - 1991-93
  • Appointed to the Comité Technique (Aménagement du territoire et milieu municipale) of the Quebec Round Table on the Environment and Economics; Representing CREPUQ - 1991-92
  • Commissioner, Canada/USSR Mixed Commission on Cooperation in the Arctic and the North - 1990-93
  • Appointed by Mayor Jean Doré, City of Montreal, to Comité Organisateur de la Rencontre Internationale des Villes d’Hiver - 1992
  • President, Winter Cities Forum ‘92, City of Montréal - 1990-92
  • President, Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS) - 1989-93
  • Co-editor, Circumpolar and Greenlandic Series, University of Alaska Press - 1989-92
  • Member, Editorial Board, Études Inuit Studies, Université Laval - 1988-90
  • Member, Editorial Board, Arctic, Arctic Institute of North America, Calgary - 1987-90
  • Member, Editorial Board, University of Alaska Press - 1986-92
  • Senior Fellowship - Canadian Northern Studies Trust - 1985-86

Grants

  • SSHRC. Public Outreach Grant-Aboriginal Research 2012
  • Internal SSHRC Grant, McGill 2012
  • Directorate of Research and Culture, Greenland Government 2012
  • SSHRC: Aid to Workshop Grant 2011
  • Work Study Grants for Research Assistant 2009-2012
  • Paper Presentation Grant. McGill 2010
  • Travel Grant, McGill 2010
  • NAPA. Nordic Institute in Greenland. Project Arnat Pingasut (Three Greenlandic Women). 2010
  • Sabbatical Leave Grant, McGill 2010-2011
  • SSHRC. Public Outreach Grant-Northern Communities: Towards Social and Economic Prosperity. “Development of an updated Inuit Arctic Policy”. 2009-2011
  • McGill University University-SSHRC Institutional Grant. The early literary work of Dr. Wilfred Grenfell. 2009
  • SSHRC. Learning from the Past-Lessons for the Future. The Traditional Knowledge of H.C. Petersen. 2008-2009 (finished in 2010). SSHRC International Research Opportunities Program. Additional grants received for the publication of this project from the Directorate of Culture and Research, Greenland Home Rule Government and the Nordic Institute in Greenland. 2010
  • Directorate of Culture and Research, Greenland Home Rule Government. Series editor. Inuit Folk Tales by Knud Rasmussen. 2009
  • International Polar Year (IPY). Entendre et communiquer les voix du Nunavik/Hearing and Sharing the Voices of Nunavik. IPY grant by Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Government of Canada. With Professor Daniel Chartier (UQAM). Co-applicant. 2008-2011
  • As part of the Voices of Nunavik grant, an additional grants were received from the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs for the development of the Moravian Exhibit Catalogue. 2009
  • The Municipality of Nuuk, Greenland. For project Arnat Pingasut. 2008
  • Directorate of Culture and Research, Greenland Home Rule Government; The Nordic Institute in Greenland and The Dean of Arts. Grants for Taqqat uummammut aqqutaannut takorluukkat apuuffiannut/The Veins of the Heart to the Pinnacle of the Mind. 2008
  • McGill University University-SSHRC Institutional Grant. Greenlandic Poetry. 2007-2008
  • McGill Paper Presentation grant. 2007
  • SSHRC Northern Research Development Grant. Principal investigator of Canadian contribution. Part of a larger IPY grant at the University of Greenland. Glocalisation: Inuit Media, Language and Literature. IPY 123. This IPY project links 42 researchers in the 8 Arctic countries. 2007-2008.
  • Directorate of Culture and Research, Greenland Home Rule Government. Series Editor. Hnas Egede Saabye; Journal in Greenland, 1770-1778. 2008
  • Institute of the Arctic at the Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College, Research Fellowship. 2007
  • McGill University University-SSHRC Institutional Grant. The Moravian material in the Lande material (Rare Books). Used to develop IPY research projects as above. 2006-2007.
  • McGill University University-SSHRC Institutional Grant. Glocalization-Language, Literature and Media among Inuit and Sami. Development of project for SSHRC funding. 2005-2006
  • Denmark Ministry of Research Grant: Conditions for Sustainable Development in the Arctic. (One of four main researchers and grant holders, and received 5,000,000 kroner (approx. $1,250,000 Canadian dollars) for a three-year research project (1999-2002). The project has been extended to 2002. The results will be published in a series of working documents and a final book). 2002
  • Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland. 2002
  • The Department of Culture and Research, the Greenland Home Rule Government. 2002
  • Living Testimonies Lecture Series. Government of Quebec. 2001
  • Faculty of Graduate Studies, Travel Grant. 2001
  • Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland. Grant to commence project: Arnat Pingasut – Tre Kvinder – Three Women. 2001
  • Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland. Project on “The Written Radio News in Greenland.” 2000

Brian Trehearne

Position: Professor Emeritus

Stream: Literature

Links: https://btrehearne.online

Degrees: 

B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (McGill)

Previously Taught: University of Western Ontario, Queen's University

Area(s): Canadian literature to 1970, chiefly poetry

Selected Publications:

  • Editor, Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960 (2010).
  • Editor, The Complete Poems of A.J.M. Smith (2007). 
  • The Montreal Forties: Modernist Poetry in Transition (1999).
  • "Critical Episodes in Montreal Poetry of the 1940s" Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 41 (1997).
  • Aestheticism and the Canadian Modernists: Aspects of a Poetic Influence (1989).
  • Editor of Standish O'Grady, The Emigrant (1989).

Awards, Honours, and Fellowships:

  • SSHRC Standard Research Grants
  • Twice winner of Louis Dudek Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • Arts Undergraduate Society Award for Excellence in Teaching

David Williams

Position: Professor

Degree(s):

B.A. (Boston)
M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)

Previously Taught: Kennedy Smith Professor of Catholic Studies (Professor Emeritus) 

Area(s): Chaucer, the grotesque, Bible, Saints' Lives, mediaeval language theory, Catholic Studies; the interrelation of text, image, and cult in hagiographical narrative; the nature of the ontology of word in biblical and poetic language

Selected Publications:

Books

  • Language Redeemed: Chaucer's Mature Poetry (2007).
  • Chaucer and Language Eds. Robert Myles and David Williams (2001).
  • Deformed Discourse: The Function of the Monster in Mediaeval Thought and Literature (1996).
  • Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: A Literary Pilgrimage (1987).
  • Cain and Beowulf: A Study in Secular Allegory (1982).

Articles

  • "'Lo how I vanysshe': The Pardoner's War against Signs." in Chaucer and Language. (2001)
  • "Attentio, Intentio, Distentio: Intentionality and Chaucer's Third Eye," Florelegium 15 (1997).
  • "From Grammar's Pan to Logic's Fire: Intentionality and Chaucer's Friar's Tale," in Literature and Ethics (1988): 77-95.
  • "Wilgeforte--Patron Saint of Monsters--and the Sacred Language of the Grotesque," in Scope of the Fantastic (1985): 171-77.
  • "Radical Therapy in 'The Miller's Tale,'" Chaucer Review 5.3 (1981): 227-35.
  • "Flannery O'Connor and the Via Negativa," Sciences Religieuses 8.3 (1979): 304-12.
  • "Exile as Uncreator," Mosaic 8.3 (1975): 1-14.

Awards, Honours, and Fellowships:

  • Raymond Klibansky Prize for the Most Outstanding Book in the Humanities, for: "Deformed Discourse: the Function of the Monster in Mediaeval Thought and Literature."

Myrna Wyatt Selkirk

Position: Associate Professor

Stream: Drama & Theatre

Degree(s):

The Vancouver Playhouse Acting School
M.F.A. (Illinois)
B.A. (Alta)

Area(s): directing and acting for the theatre; creative practice & performance studies, embodied practice & ethnographic approaches; text interpretation through movement; identity & representation; clown and mask; audience/actor relationship.

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