Trent University
MyTrent
  • Academics
    • Undergraduate Programs
    • Graduate Programs
    • Trent Online
    • Summer Courses
    • Continuing Education
    • Study Abroad
    • Academic Calendar
    • Academic Timetable
    • Academic Skills Centre
    • Academic Advising
    • Library
    • Centre for Teaching and Learning
  • Admissions
    • Undergraduate
    • Thinking of Applying
    • Already Applied
    • Received an Offer
    • Accepted My Offer
    • Graduate
    • International
    • Indigenous
    • Returning to Trent
    • Transfer
  • Services & Support
    • Academic Advising
    • Academic Skills Centre
    • Administrative Departments
    • Alumni Services
    • Athletics
    • Campus Security
    • Careerspace
    • Colleges
    • Communications
    • Conferences
    • Financial Aid
    • Financial Services
    • Health & Wellness
    • Indigenous Services
    • Information Technology
    • International Students
    • Learning Support
    • Parking
    • Printshop
    • Recruitment
    • Registrar's Office
    • Residence & Housing
    • Student Clubs
    • TrentU Card
  • Research
    • Research at Trent
    • Research Centres
    • Find an Expert
    • Resources
  • Give to Trent
  • About Trent
    • About Trent
    • Careers
    • Giving to Trent
    • Governance
    • How to Find Us
    • Media
    • News & Events
    • President's Office
    • Staff Directory
    • Trent Facts
    • Contact Us
  • Campus Locations
    • Peterborough
    • Durham GTA
    • Online
  • Future Students
    • Undergraduate
    • Thinking of Applying
    • Already Applied
    • Received an Offer
    • Accepted My Offer
    • Graduate
    • International
    • Indigenous
    • Returning to Trent
    • Transfer
  • Current Students
  • Alumni
  • Trent Forward: COVID-19 Info
  • Apply
  • Visit
  • Give
  • Map
  • Careers
  • Directions
  • Library
  • Site Map
  • Bookstore
Skip to main content Home
  • Peterborough
  • Durham GTA
  • Online
  • MyTrent
MENU
Image of an enchanted book spewing words
Trent University
English
  • Welcome
  • The Experience
  • Programs
  • Faculty & Research
  • Community
  • Contact
  1. Trentu.ca
  2. English
  3. Faculty & Research
  4. Michael Eamon

Michael Eamon

Principal, Catharine Parr Traill College
B.A. Hon. (Ottawa) M.A.(Queen’s), M.Phil (Cambridge), Ph.D. (Queen’s)

Catharine Parr Traill College, Scott House 107, 705-748-1011 ext. 6218, michaeleamon@trentu.ca

Adjunct Professor, M.A. English Literature (Public Texts), M.A. History, Ph.D. Cultural Studies, M.A./Ph.D. Frost Centre for Canadian Studies & Indigenous Studies

I am an historian of print culture in early Canada. My recent book, Imprinting Britain, looks at the development of the press in Nova Scotia and Quebec during the eighteenth century. The press was both a means of sociability and a vehicle to inform and enliven other fora of interaction such as coffee houses, clubs and theatre. I also have had a career, outside of the university, in public history, museums, archives, heritage preservation and the digital humanities. I have published and lecture on all of these subjects at Trent. An ardent support of collegiate universities like Trent, I am the chair of Collegiate Way International, a global organization that promotes our unique style of scholarly, interdisciplinary communities within higher education.

Selected Publications

Imprinting Britain: Newspapers, Sociability, and the Shaping of British North America. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press), 2015.

“Constructing a Collegiate Compass: Navigating Change in the Culturally-Constructed Collegiate University” in The Collegiate Way, Tim Burt and Martyn Evans, eds. (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers), 2016.

“The War Against Public Forgetfulness: Commemorating 1812 in Canada.” London Journal of Canadian Studies 28 (2013-14): 134-185.

“‘An Extensive Collection of Useful and Entertaining Books:’ The Quebec Library and the Transatlantic Enlightenment in Canada.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 23,1 (2012): 1-38.

“‘Don’t Speak to Me, but Write of This:’ The Childhood Almanacs of Mary and Katherine Byles.” The New England Quarterly 85, 2 (2012): 335-352.

“The Québec Clerk Controversy: A Study in Sociability, the Public Sphere & the Eighteenth-Century Spirit of Enlightenment.” Canadian Historical Review 90,4 (2009): 609-638.

“Tracing the Scottish Enlightenment in British North America: Scottish-Trained Medical Practitioners and Their Participation in a Trans-Atlantic Culture of Ideas.” in Nancy Christie, ed. Transatlantic Subjects: Ideas, Institutions, and Social Experience in Post-Revolutionary British North America. (Kingston-Montréal: Queen’s-McGill Press, 2008), 283-329.

“A ‘Genuine Relationship With the Actual’: New Perspectives on Primary Sources, History and the Internet in the Classroom.” The History Teacher 39,3 (May 2006): 297-314.

“Finding Enlightenment in the National Archives of Canada: The Commonplace Book of James Sholto Douglas.” Archivaria 51 (Spring 2001): 155-188.

Trent Logo with Campaign for Momentous Change text beside it

Trent University respectfully acknowledges it is located on the treaty and traditional territory of the Mississauga Anishinaabeg. We offer our gratitude to First Peoples for their care for, and teachings about, our earth and our relations. May we honour those teachings.

Peterborough

1600 West Bank Drive
Peterborough, ON Canada, K9L 0G2

Toll Free: 1-855-MY-TRENT

Campus Map

Durham Greater Toronto Area

55 Thornton Road South
Oshawa, ON Canada, L1J 5Y1

Phone: 905-435-5100

Campus Map

Social Media Directory
  • Contact
  • Directions
  • Site Map
  • Accessibility
  • @ Copyright 2023 Trent University