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Publications and conference presentations: -"Ambivalence and Intertextuality in Marian Engel's The Glassy Sea." Journal of Canadian Studies, Spring 2006. -Sunbeams from a Golden Machine: Early Writings by
Marian Engel (Juvenilia Press, U of Alberta, Spring 2002), with junior
editor, Tammy MacNeil, UCCB graduate, currently working on her master's degree at Memorial University of Newfoundland
(total pages 59, vii-xxi and 1-
45) - "Surreality
not Dull Fidelity: Writing the everyday in Marian Engel's short stories." The Journal of the Short
Story in English (Angers, France) No. 38- Spring 2002 (pages 23-35) - - "Beatrice
MacNeil and her Writing Ceilidhs," in Sculptures from Jagged Ore,
edited by Carol Corbin and Eileen Smith-Piovesan (UCCB Press, 2001) -Women in Storytelling: The Proceedings of the Third
Annual UCCB Storytelling -"Telling
Stories: A power paradigm in Michael Ondaatje's The English patient." Women and
Storytelling (UCCB Press, 2000) -The Power of the Story, the Proceedings of the First Annual UCCB Storytelling Symposium (UCCB Press, 1998) Book
Reviews Review of Everywhere Being Is Dancing by Robert Bringhurst in the 2008 Spring issue of The Goose. Available online at www.alecc.ca/thegoose.html "Slavery's Painful History," Canadian Literature, 195 (Fall 2007), a review of The Book of Negroes, a novel by Lawrence Hill, and the winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Prize Review of Robert bringhurst's The Tree of Meaning, in 2007 Fall issue of The Goose, available online at “How Popular Culture changed the way American Catholics Lived and Worshipped,” Topia (Spring 2006), a review of Rebecca Sullivan’s Visual Habits -"Return of the Family Romance," Canadian Literature, 190 (Autumn 2006): 98-100, a review of two new Canadian novels, including the Governor general's Award winner, A Perfect Night to Go to China. Available online at www.canlit.ca · -Central
Metaphors, Canadian Literature,
182 (Autumn
2004): 89-90, a review of three new Canadian novels, available
online at www.canlit.ca ·
-Risk-taking new authors,
Canadian Literature 177
(Summer 2003): 175-76, a review of four novels by new young
Canadian women writers. · -Review
of Sculptures from Jagged Ore: Essays about Cape Breton Women
(UCCB Press 2001) in The Cape Breton Post, 13 December 2001 ·
-Review of CBU Press publication Centre of
the World at the Edge of a Continent,
ed. Judy Rolls and
Carol Corbin, in the Nov.9, 1996 issue of The Cape Breton Post ·
-Review of Silver Donald Cameron's collection of essays, Sterling
Silver in Brock Review, 1995 Conference
Presentations -November17 & 18, 2006- Presented at the Eleventh Congress of the Spanish Association for Canadian Studies held in Madrid (hosted by Madrid University), the paper, “Artistic Representations of Ecological degradation in Jane Urquhart’s A Map of Glass.”
-May 26, 2005- Presented at the McMaster Universitys Archives and
Canadian Literature Conference, Turning the Knobs on Writers
Closets, a paper, Ambivalence and Intertexuality in Marian
Engels The Glassy Sea -May
6, 2005- Presented at the University of Ottawa Canadianist Symposium,
The Animals in this Country, a paper, The Bear Essential
in the Canadian Search for Identity: Engels Bear and Glovers
Elle -May
2004- Presented at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Federation of Canada (HSSFC) to members of The Association of Canadian
College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) the paper, Contesting
the Human/Animal Divide: Marian Engels Bear -May
2003- Presented at the Professional Concerns Session of ACCUTE at HSSFC,
a paper on hybrid institutions: Let us applaud the educational
Smorgasbord - -October
2002- presented with Tammy MacNeil, The Benefits of Professor and
Student Working together on a Volume of Juvenilia, at The Association
of Atlantic Universities Teaching Showcase, at the University of Prince
Edward Island -May
2001- presented at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Federation of Canada (HSSFC) at Laval University, Quebec City, to members
of ACCUTE, the paper "A Community in the City: Marian Engel's Lunatic
Villas" -August
1999- presented at the International Conference on Storytelling, Brock
University, the paper, "Telling HIS Story: A Power Paradigm in Michael
Ondaatje's The English Patient" -
June 1999- presented at the Congress of the HSSFC held at Bishop's and
Sherbrooke Universities, to members of ACCUTE, "Ma(i)nland vs.I/land:
Writing Space: Engel's Islands"
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