Distinguished Research Award winner:
Professor Michael Peterman

Current Chair of the English Literature Department, Professor Michael Peterman of English Literature and the Canadian Studies Program, will receive Trent's 1999 Distinguished Research Award at Convocation.

A graduate of Princeton University, Peterman received his PhD in 1977 at the University of Toronto. He held a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship in 1995-96.

Peterman is one of Canada's foremost authorities on 19th century Canadian literature, also having done much research on late 20th century authors. Since 1983, he has written, edited or co-edited nine books to favourable reviews on Susanna Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill and Robertson Davies. His critical edition of Catharine Parr Traill's The Backwood of Canada, has become a standard text.

Peterson has also written more than 24 articles about both American and Canadian authors, including Margaret Laurence, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Willa Cather, W.O. Mitchell, Isabella Valency Crawford, James McCarroll and Robertson Davies.

³With this award we recognize Prof. Peterman as an invaluable asset to Trent University and to Canadian scholarship as a whole,² Dean Paul Healy said in announcing the award at Senate on March 16.