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 In their research and teaching the Public Texts faculty explore a broad range of issues related to the production, distribution and reception of texts. Their areas of interest include: censorship; journalism; bibliography; text and the visual arts; text and film; text and performance (music, dance, theatre); production and reception of children’s literature; orality and textuality in medieval, indigenous and postcolonial literature; literature and mass culture; print culture; textual editing theory and practice; interdisciplinary approaches to texts; Old and Middle English manuscript culture; the history of the book; the electronic production and circulation of texts; reception history and theory; the reception and circulation of texts related to ageing, disability, gender and race; medieval and modern theatrical texts; William Blake's illuminated texts; and life writing.
Research Interests Victorian literature and science, including photography; women's writing;Canadian travel writing; medical humanities Current Research Projects
Canadian travel writing, ethics and aesthetics; nineteenth-century psychology and theories of mind; Darwin
Selected Publications Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning's Poetry. (Routledge, 2010) New edition of P. K. Page's Brazilian Journal (forthcoming 2011).
Associate Professor (English)
19th- and early 20th-century British and American; 19th-century American women writers, and transatlantic studies; youth literature; novel; drama Current Research Project Anglo-American female literary tradition of the 19th and early 20th centuries Selected Publications “Mother to Daughter: Muted Maternal Feminism in the Fiction of Sandra Cisneros,” in Textual Mothers, Maternal Texts: Motherhood in Contemporary Women’s Literatures. Ed. Elizabeth Podnieks and Andrea O’Reilly, Wilfred Laurier UP, 2010. 377-91. "'Within small compass:' Hawthorne’s Expansive Urban Garden in The House of the Seven Gables." The Brock Review 10.1(2008): 41-51. Open access: www.brocku.ca/brockreview "A Case for the Re-covered Writer: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s Early Contributions to Detective Fiction." CLUES: A Journal of Detection 26.1 (2007): 23-36. [published in 2008] "L. M. Montgomery and the Anguish of Mother Loss," in Storm and Dissonance: L. M. Montgomery and Conflict. Ed. Jean Mitchell. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. 50-66 "Shut-ins, Shut-outs and Spofford’s Other Children: The Hester Stanley Stories," in Monika M. Elbert. Ed. Enterprising Youth: Social Values and Acculturation in Nineteenth- Century American Children’s Literature. Routledge, 2008. 115-29 Reference Entries “Literature, Mothers in,”. Encyclopedia of Motherhood. 3 vols. Ed. Andrea O’Reilly. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2010. 2: 659-67.
Assistant Professor (Psychology) Research Interests How people utilize information in their environment during everyday situations. Selected Publications With Malcolmson, K. A., & Smilek., D. (2007). "Collaboration during visual search". Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, accepted for publication October 10, 2006 (2007); With Smilek, D., Eastwood, J. D., & Kingstone, A. (2006). "Metacognitive errors in change detection: Missing the gap between lab and life."; Consciousness and Cognition, in press; With Besner, D. (2005). "Contextual control of lexical and sublexical routines when reading English aloud." Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 113 - 118. Associate Professor (Canadian Studies)
An interdisciplinary study of the relationship between aging and disability in the Canadian public sphere. Ongoing interests include contemporary women's writing, the problem body on film, and the cultures and representation of Western Canada. Her work is linked by an interest in how artistic forms, especially literature and film, contribute to critical thought and social movements. Selected publications "'This is my memory, a fact': The Many Mediations of Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka." Auto/biography in Canada: Theory, Criticism, Practice. Ed. Julie Rak. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005. 98-121; From Old Woman to Older Women: Contemporary Culture and Women's Narratives. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 2003; "Disability Studies and the Vancouver Opera's Of Mice and Men."; Disability Studies Quarterly. Winter 2003. Volume 23. Number 8. 95-108; Encyclopedia entries on "Disability and Film," "Disability and Television," "Tod Browning," "Frailty," "Hiromi Goto," and "Bell Hooks." Associate Professor
Romantic literature; Restoration and 18th century literature; Austen; Conrad
Associate Professor (History)
Visual culture (including photography, film and mass media); the production, circulation, and reception of texts related to social movements, especially modern environmentalism. Current Research Projects From the Atomic Bomb to Global Warming: Environmentalism and the Politics of Spectacle in Modern America Selected Publications "Seeing Global Warming: Contemporary Art and the Fate of the Planet," Environmental History (forthcoming, January 2009); "Gas Masks, Pogo, and the Ecological Indian: Earth Day and the Visual Politics of American Environmentalism," American Quarterly 60 (March 2008): 67-99; “Reframing the Last Frontier: Subhankar Banerjee and the Visual Politics of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge," American Quarterly 58 (March 2006): 159-180; an updated version of this essay will be reprinted in Alan C. Braddock and Christoph Irmscher, eds., A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Perspectives in American Art History (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, forthcoming, 2009); Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005; paperback, 2008).
Research Interests Modern and contemporary American fiction; African-American fiction; 19th century American women poets; black literary and critical theory; theories of subjectivity and the body; Faulkner; Morrison Selected Publications "Labor, Economy, and Desire: Rethinking American Nationhood
Assistant Professor (English) Office: Catharine Parr Traill College, Wallis Hall 105 Research Interests Publics and Public Texts; 19th and 20th century American literature and culture; theories of affect; theories of durability; Irish Republicanism; Public Violence Current Research Projects A project investigating the relationship between publics and violence. Selected Publications "The Humour Industry." U.S. Popular Print Culture 1860-1920. London: Oxford UP. Forthcoming Fall 2011. “Durable Public Feelings.” Canadian Review of American Studies 41.2 “A Republic of Laughter: Marietta Holley and the Production of "Durability. Special Issue of Canadian Review of American "War. Special Issue of Canadian Review of American Associate Professor (English) Office: Catharine Parr Traill College, Wallis Hall 116
Middle English literature; Middle Irish and Middle Welsh literature; women in medieval literature; myth and folklore; children's literature; creative writing Current Research Projects Lady/Hero/Saint: The Digby Play's Multivalent Mary Magdalene, a book-length study of the protagonist of the Digby Mary Magdalene play and the play's lliterary context. Under consideration with PIMS Press; Seeking "Our Eden": The Utopian Dreams of Sarah Jamieson Craig (working title), a monograph based on the diaries and reminiscences of Sarah Jamieson Craig, a 19th-century New Brunswick woman who tried to establish a utopian colony in the 1860's. Selected Publications "Mary Magdalene as New Custance? The 'Woman Cast Adrift' in the Digby Mary Magdalene Play," English Studies in Canada 32:4 (Dec. 2006): 25-50; "Dangerous Siren or Abandoned Wife? Gloss versus Text on an Early Irish Manuscript Page," Signs on the Edge: Space Text and Margin in Medieval Manuscripts, ed. Sarah Larratt Keefer and Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr., Medievalia Groningana, (Peeters, 2007); "Napping in the Arbour in the Digby Mary Magdalene Play", Early Theatre 9:2 (2006): 35-56; "Gender and Power in Serglige Con Culainn and Yeats's The Only Jealousy of Emer", in Language and Tradition in Ireland: Continuities and Displacements, edited by M. Tymoczko and C. Ireland, American Conference for Irish Studies publication series, Vol. 3, (December 2003), 47-61; "Ogres in the Canadian Bush: The Fairy Tale Subtext in Tim Wynne-Jones' The Maestro", Canadian Children's Literature 98, Vol. 26:2 (2001): 4-14; A Woman's Words: Emer and Female Speech in the Ulster Cycle, University of Toronto Press, 1997. Director, Creative Book Publsihing Program, Humber College Office: Cottage D., Room 103, 3199 Lakeshore Blvd W Research Interests Canadian publishing, technological trends in international publishing and writing, 19th century British fiction; Canadian literature; Jewish fiction Associate Professor (English) E-mail: hughhodges@trentu.ca
Research Interests African and West Indian literature & music, performance poetry and popular music. Current Research Projects My research is currently focused on two projects. The first is a book on Nigerian literature entitled Bare Life and the Beast of No Nation. The second is a book-length study of the pop lyric in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain. Race riots, the Falklands War, hunger strikes by imprisoned IRA members, the smashing of the Trade Unions, and massive unemployment all became subjects for pop music during Thatcher’s tenure as Prime Minister. As Elvis Costello said at the time, "Pretty words don’t mean much anymore." Selected Publications “Good Work Dun: An Informal Introduction to the Poetry of Lorna Goodison,” Cuadernos de literature (2011); “Marley at the Crossroads: Invocations of Bob Marley in the Poetry of Geoffrey Philp,” Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas 81 (Fall 2010); “Writing Biafra: Adichie, Emecheta and the Dilemmas of Biafran War Fiction,” Postcolonial Text 5:1 (2009); Soon Come. Jamaican Spirituality, Jamaican Poetics. University of Virginia Press, Spring 2008; "Return to Sender: The Small Town in Wole Soyinka’s The Interpreters, Season of Anomy, Aké and Isara," The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 42:1 (Spring 2007); "Kitchener Takes England: The London Calypsos of Aldwyn Roberts," Wasafiri 43 (Summer 2005); "Walk Good: West Indian Oratorical Traditions in Bob Marley’s Uprising," The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 40:2 (Summer 2005); "Start-Over: Possession Rites and Healing Rituals in the Poetry of Lorna Goodison," Research in African Literatures 36:2 (Summer 2005); "George Elliott Clarke’s Odysseys Home," Research in African Literatures 34:4 (November 2003); "Speak of the Advent of New Light: Jamaican Proverbs and Anancy Stories," Sargasso (2002 II); "Text Version: Linton Kwesi Johnson’s Dub Poetry in Print," The Xavier Review 22:2 (Fall 2002); "Far Eye: Rastafarian Historicity in West Indian Literature," In Process 2, (Spring 2000). Professor (English) Office: Catharine Parr Traill College, Wallis Hall 117 Research Interests The liturgy of Western Christendom until A.D. 1100, particularly that of Anglo-Saxon England, and its relationship to the cultural development of prose and verse, royal patronage, and political power. Palaeography, codicology and the editing and study of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Current Research Projects The development of the votive mass and of the benedictional in Western Christendom until A.D. 1100 (bIP). Editing and studying evidence for an eleventh-century Holy Week libellus (aIP). Evidence for Anglo-Saxon and continental masses and blessings for travel by land (pro iter agentibus) and sea (pro navigantibus) (aIP). Selected Publications Old English Liturgical Verse: a Student Edition. Calgary: Broadview Press (forthcoming 2010); Cross and Cruciform in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Sarah Larratt Keefer, Karen Jolly and Catherine Karkov. Morgantown, West Virginia University Press: 2009; Signs on the Edge: Space, Text and Margin in Medieval Manuscripts, ed. Sarah Larratt Keefer and Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr. Medievalia Groningana New Series 10. Leiden: Peeters, 2007; Durham, Ripon and York Manuscripts, (with David Rollason and A.N. Doane). Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile Series vol. 14. Tempe, AZ: MRTS, 2007; "Ðonne se cirlisca man ordales weddigeð: the Anglo-Saxon Lay Ordeal", in Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald, ed. Stephen Baxter, et al (London: Ashgate, 2008), 353-368; "Performance and the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England," in Cross and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Karen Jolly, Catherine E. Karkov and Sarah Larratt Keefer (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2007), 219-272: "Use of Manuscript Space for Design, Image and Text in Liturgical Books owned by the Community of St Cuthbert", in Signs on the Edge: Space, Text and Margin in Medieval Manuscripts, ed. Sarah Larratt Keefer and Rolf H Bremmer, Jr, (Leiden: Peeters, 2007), 85-115; "Her Own Particular Style: the Anglo-Saxon Church and her Clerical Vestments", Medieval Clothing and Textiles 3 (2007), 13-39; "Every Picture Tells a Story: Cuthbert’s Vestments in the Benedictional of St Æthelwold", Leeds Studies in English 37 (2007), 111-134; "Body Language: a Graphic Commentary by the Horses of the Bayeux Tapestry”, in Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry, ed. Gale Owen-Crocker (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005), pp. 93-108; "The Veneration of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England", in The Liturgy of the Late Anglo-Saxon Church, ed. H. Gittos and M. Bradford Bedingfield, Henry Bradshaw Society Subsidia Series V (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005), 141-82; "Old English Religious Texts," in Readings in Medieval Texts, ed. David Johnson and Elaine Treharne, (Oxford University Press, 2005), 15-29; "In Closing: Amen and Doxology in Anglo-Saxon England", Anglia 121.2 (2003), 1-24; " 'Either/And' as 'Style' in Anglo-Saxon Christian Verse", Anglo-Saxon Styles, ed. Catherine Karkov and George H. Brown, (Binghamton: State University of New York Press, 2003), 179-200; "Ic and We in Eleventh-Century Old English Liturgical Verse", in Unlocking the Wordhord: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr., ed. Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe and Mark Amodio (University of Toronto Press, 2002), 123-46; "Assessing the Liturgical Canticles from the Old English Hexateuch Manuscripts", in The Old English Hexateuch: Aspects and Approaches, ed. B.C. Withers and R. Barnhouse (Kalamazoo: Richard Rawlinson Center/ Medieval Institute Publications, 2000), 95-130. Assistant Professor (English) Office: Catharine Parr Traill College, Wallis Hall 123 Research interests Modern and postmodern British literature; postcolonialism; masculinities; narratology, secularism and contemporary ritual Assistant Professor (English) Office: Catharine Parr Traill College, Wallis Hall 120
Eighteenth-century literature and cultural history; medical history; plague writing and public health; biothrillers and biopunk; disease and national character; women’s writing; sermon literature Current Research An interdisciplinary study of the relationship between suicide, gender and national identity in the eighteenth-century novel. An edition on the cultural history of suicide in the eighteenth century. A book project on plague writing and public health discourse in the eighteenth century. Articles on the interconnections between physiology and philosophy in early Romantic thought. Publications "Dying to be English: Suicide Narratives and National Identity: 1714-1814". The History of Suicide, Vols. 3 & 4. London: Pickering & Chatto (Forthcoming in December, 2011). “True Crime: Print Culture, Contagion, and Herbert Croft's Love and Madness; or, A Story too True." Eighteenth-Century Fiction (forthcoming); "Mourning and Material Culture.” Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. 177 (2010) (Reprint); “Raising the Dead: Sermons, Suicide, and Transnational Exchange in the Eighteenth Century.” Literature and Medicine 28:1 (2009): 9-26; “`Corruptible Bodies’: Suicide and the Aesthetics of the English Malady in John Shebbeare’s Lydia; or, Filial Piety (1755)”: The English Malady: Enabling and Disabling Fictions, Glen Colburn, ed. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, 95-123; “Mourning and Material Culture in Eliza Haywood’s The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 18:3 (2006): 281-304; “`Dire Compotation’: Eighteenth-Century English Georgics and the (Mis)Uses of Alcohol” Lumen 22 (2004): 255-274; “`Fashioned for Desire’: Re-Constructing the Body in Bliss Carman’s Sappho: One-Hundred Poems.” Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews. 49 (2001): 16-39; “Effacing `Mem’ry’s Page’: Orality and Literacy in Adam Kidd’s The Huron Chief.” Canadian Poetry 46 (2000): 8-42. Associate Professor (Indigenous Studies)
Cree culture and history, oral history, Indigenous narratives and literature, Indigenous art, Indigenous philosophy and religion, Indigenous political history and the history of Indigenous people of western Canada.
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University of Toronto Press, 2011. 504 pages; “’Myself in Time … and Space’: The Letters of A.M. Klein,” Failure's Opposite: Listening to A.M. Klein. Edited by Norm Ravvin and Sherry Simon, 2011. 52-68; The Second Scroll. A.M. Klein, Ed. Elizabeth Popham and Zailig Pollock, 2000; "Arcadian Fiction," The Spenser Encyclopedia, Ed. A.C. Hamilton, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990, 1992; 2nd edition, 2006. 
