CURRICULUM VITAE
NEIL K. BESNER
Provost and Vice-President, Academic
University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3B 2E9
POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia. Field: Canadian
literature. Dissertation: Mavis Gallant's Short Fiction: History and Memory in the Light
of Imagination. Supervisor: Professor William H. New. External examiner: Professor David
Staines, English Department, University of Ottawa. (1983)
M.A., University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan. Field: American literature. Thesis: Saul
Bellow's Protagonists: A Struggle for Self-Transcendence. Supervisor: Professor Eugene
Dawson. (1974)
B.A. (Honours English), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. (1972)
Undergraduate work, English major, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, Calif. (1966-70)
LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH
Portuguese (fluent), Spanish (near fluent), French
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE, 2000 forward
1. University of Winnipeg
January 2015 --
Provost and Vice-President, Academic.
June 27/14 – July 31/14
Acting President and Vice-Chancellor.
Nov. 2012 – Dec. 31, 2014
Provost and Vice-President, Academic and International.
Sept. 2010 – Oct. 2012
Vice-President, Research and International. Responsible
for all research activities and international projects.
Jan. – Mar. 2010
Chief negotiator (re: Collective Agreement with Contract Faculty,
ratified Spring 2010).
Sept. 2009 – Aug. 2010
Vice-President, Students and International. Responsible for all
Student Services, domestic and international, and all international
initiatives.
Dec. 2006 – Mar, 2010
Chief Negotiator (re: Collective Agreement with University of
Winnipeg Faculty Association, UWFA, ratified in 2008); and
member, negotiating team, for 2 Collective Agreements ratified
with Support Staff union, AESES.
Oct. 2006 - Sept. 2009
Founding Associate Vice-President, International. Responsible for
all international initiatives, recruitment, and student
services; exchanges; government and institutional relations and
agreements; and The Global College.
July 2008 – Sept. 2009
Deputy Provost and Associate Vice-President, International.
Responsible for all Student Services; Enrolment Services; Labour
relations with UWFA; and all international initiatives.
Jan. 2008 -
Responsible for Office of Enrolment Services (domestic
recruiting).
May 2006 - Sept. 2006
Acting Associate Vice-President, Academic.
Aug. 2005 - Sept. 2006
Founding Dean of Arts.
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May 2002 - July 2005
Dean of Humanities.
Mar. 2000 - April 2000
Chair, Chancellor’s Selection Committee.
Feb. 2000 - Sept. 2000
Member, Advisory Board, Creative Communications Program,
Red River College.
2. EXTERNAL TO THE UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG, 2000 forward
June 2014
Co-chaired organizational institutional review, and Chaired review
panel for SHEQAB (Saskatchewan Higher Education Quality
Assurance Board) for English Degrees, Briercrest College and
Seminary, Caronport, Saskatchewan.
Oct. 2013
Reviewed English Department, University of Lethbridge. (One of
two external reviewers.)
June 2013 --
Board member, Campus Alberta Quality Council (CACQ).
Jan. 2012 --
Co-Chair, Universities Sector, Winnipeg, United Way Cabinet.
(Invited to lead City of Winnipeg Campaign, 2016.)
Jan. 2011 – August 2011
United Way Cabinet, Winnipeg, Universities Sector.
May 2011 – March 2013
Associate Member, TRIUMF Board of Management.
March 2009
Reviewed English Department at University of Northern British
Columbia (UNBC). (One of two external reviewers.)
August 2006
Assessed proposal to grant B.A. in English, Mount Royal
College, Calgary, AB.
June 2006
At request of Board of Advanced Education, Degree Quality
Assessment Bureau (DQAB), assessed Bachelor of Arts and
Science Degree of Quest University, Squamish, B.C.
July 1, 2002-June 30/04
President, ACCUTE (Association of Canadian College and
University Teachers of English).
Feb. 2000-Sept. 2000
Member, Advisory Board, Creative Communications Program,
Red River College.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG
1995-
Professor, English Department, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg,
Manitoba.
1990-95
Associate Professor, English Department, University of Winnipeg,
Winnipeg, Manitoba.
1987-90
Assistant Professor, English Department, University of Winnipeg,
Winnipeg, Manitoba.
COURSES TAUGHT
“Alice Munro’s Stories”
“Contos da Alice Munro”
English 4710
“Canadian Literature”
English 339
Canadian Studies
Canadian Studies
------------English 4341
English 4341
English 4341
English 4712
English 4711
English 3713
English 3712
--------------English 3711
English 1220
English 1221
English 101
-----------English 099
English 100
English 1110
English 301
English 303
English 2181
ESL 010-040
English 1202
Graduate seminar (in Portuguese), UNESP/Araraquara, São Paulo,
Brazil
Undergraduate Course, UNESP/Araraquara
Seminar: Contemporary Canadian Poetry
(Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China)
“Canadian Prose Fiction Since 1970"
“Canadian Literature: an Introduction”
“Understanding Western Canada”
“The Postcolonial Moment in Canadian Writing”
Seminar: Individual Author: Alice Munro
Seminar: Individual Author: Carol Shields
Seminar: Individual Author: Mordecai Richler
Seminar: Topics in Canadian Literature
Seminar: Canadian Literature
Contexts in Canadian Literature
Canadian Regional Literature
“Introduction: Canadian Literature” (Harbin, China)
Canadian Literature
Survey of Canadian Literature
Contemporary Canadian Literature
Modern Canadian Literature
"History of Canadian Literature" (Prague)
Remedial Grammar and Composition
Introduction to Literature and Composition
Principles of Expository Writing
Technical and Business Writing
Advanced Expository Writing
Writing Across the Curriculum
English as a Second Language
Introduction to Poetry and Drama
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English 211/12
English 2201
English 2231
English 2237
English 2357
English 2142
English 4651
English 4531
English 4642
Major Authors Survey
Principles of Composition
Introduction to Fiction
Introduction to Dramatic Literature
The Short Story
Fundamentals of Literary Study
Seminar: Modern American Fiction
Seminar: Modern American Poetry
Seminar: Modern Fiction in Translation
These are first-year undergraduate to fourth-year honours undergraduate courses, and graduate
seminars, taught at Okanagan College, Kwantlen College, Douglas College, Mount Royal
College, University of Regina, University of British Columbia, University of Winnipeg (1987 to
present), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina,
Florianopolis, Brazil (March - May, 2001, and April, 2003), McGill University, Montreal
(September - April, 2001-02), Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China (May 2006), and
UNESP/Araraquara, São Paulo State, Brazil (March 2015). Taught and worked at McGill as the
2001-2002 Seagram’s Chair in Canadian Studies at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada;
one course, “Understanding Western Canada,” at the Institute, and one course, “Canadian Fiction
Since 1970,” for the English Department.
THESES DIRECTED or EXAMINED, 2000 forward
External Examiner for Ph.D. dissertation, Universidade Do Estado de Rio de Janeiro (UERJ –
State University of Rio de Janeiro), November 26, 2010. Candidate: Camila de Mello Santos, on
“Representações da família na narrariva gótica contemporânea.” (Representations of the family
in contemporary Gothic narratives.)
External Examiner for Ph.D. dissertation, University of Manitoba, August 27, 2007. Candidate:
Ying Kong, on Carol Shields’s Fiction and Life-Writing.
External examiner for M.A. thesis, Universidade Estadual de Rio de Janeiro, November 18,
2005. Candidate Camila de Mello, on Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle and the Contemporary
Gothic.
External Examiner for Ph.D. dissertation, University of Calgary, August 2005. Candidate Joy
Fehr, “Re-Writing Alberta.”
External Examiner for Ph.D. dissertation, McMaster, October 2004. Candidate Janna Nadler,
“Displaced and Minor Children in Selected Canadian Literature.”
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External Examiner for Ph.D. dissertation on representations of the railroad in Canadian literature,
McGill, Oct. 26, 2001. Candidate: Kevin Flynn, “Destination Nation: Writing the Railway in
Canada.”
External Examiner for M.A. thesis on Helen Weinzweig, Lakehead University, 2000.
Director, M.A. Thesis on Carol Shields, University of Winnipeg/Charles University, Prague:
candidate: Marie Pilatova.
AWARDS and GRANTS, 2000 forward
2011 – 2014
Co-investigator, “Brazil/Canada Knowledge Exchange: building transnational
literacies,” $252,033 SSHRC contribution, complemented by additional
partnership contributions.
2009
Marsha Hanen Award for Excellence in Creating Community Awareness,
University of Winnipeg.
2008
SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Clusters Grant (co-applicant): Editing Modernism
in Canada (EMiC): $2,100,000 and $1,600,000 in kind, 2008-2015.
2006
Grant from Chinese Government ($4600) to travel to Harbin Institute of
Technology, Harbin, China, and teach a short course on Canadian literature and
deliver five lectures (May 15-26).
2005
Distinguished Faculty Speaker’s Award ($2000) to deliver keynote at ABECAN
(Brazilian Association for Canadian Studies) conference, Gramado, Rio Grande
do Sul, Brazil.
Travel Grant from Brazilian Government ($2225) to deliver keynote talk at
conference on Women and Literature, Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 2-5.
2003
Travel Grant from ABECAN (Brazilian Association for Canadian Studies) to
deliver three lectures in Brazil on Canadian literature and Postcolonial Theory,
April 1-16, 2003.
2002-05
Collaborator, Research Development Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities
Council (SSHRC), $87,405. Project: “In Their Places: The Discourse of Home
and the Study of Canadian Children’s Literature.” Principal Investigator: Mavis
Reimer. (Complete; contributed essay to book, Home Words: Discourses of
Children’s Literature in Canada. ed. Mavis Reimer, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2008.)
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2001
Named Seagram’s Visiting Chair in Canadian Studies at McGill, McGill Institute
Study of Canada. ($75,000. In residence Sept. 2001 – April 2002.)
2001
Grant from Brazilian Government Agency (CAPES) to teach graduate course in
Canadian literature at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, March - May
2001.
2000
University of Winnipeg International Travel Grant to deliver a paper in Recife,
Brazil (June 21, 2000).
MEMBERSHIP and WORK in PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS, 2000 forward
March 2012
Chair, SSHRC Awards Selection Committee, First
Partnership Grants Competition, Ottawa.
April 2011
Chair, SSHRC Partnership Grants Committee, First Letter
of Interest Stage Competition, Ottawa.
March 2007 and 2008
Member, SSHRC Committee #19, Ottawa; assessed
applicants for research grants in modern literature.
(Declined invitation to Chair, 2009.)
2002-04
President, Association of Canadian College and University
Teachers of English (ACCUTE).
ACQL (Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures).
ACS (Association for Canadian Studies).
ACSUS (Association for Canadian Studies in the United States).
BRASA (Association for Brazilian Studies).
MLA (Modern Language Association).
Advisory Board, Elizabeth Bishop Society (1998–2002).
Chair, Advisory Board, Winnipeg International Writers’ Festival (1998–2000, 2003-04).
Editorial Board, Essays on Canadian Writing (1993–2001).
Editorial Board, Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne (1993-2008).
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Papers on deposit in Special Collections, University of Manitoba at
https://umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/collections/complete_holdings/ead/html/besner.shtm
1. BOOKS and EDITIONS
Book:
Co-edited, with Maria Conçeição Monteiro and Guillermo Giucci, Além
dos Limites: Ensaios para o Século XXI. (Beyond Limits: Essays for the
Twenty-First Century.) Rio de Janeiro: ed.uerj (State University of Rio de
Janeiro Press), 2013.
Book:
Co-edited and contributed to, with Carlinda Fragale Pate Nunez and Maria
Conceição Monteiro, Diálogos nas Américas - Brasil / Canadá: Culturas
e Literaturas / Dialogues in the Americas - Brazil / Canada: Cultures and
Literatures, Number 2. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Caetés, 2010.
Book:
Co-edited and contributed to, with Carlinda Fragale Pate Nunez and
Maria Conceição Monteiro, (As)simetrias nas Americas: Brasil/Canada:
Culturas e Literaturas. (A)symmetries in the Americas: Brazil/Canada:
cultures and literatures. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Caetes, 2008.
Book:
Edited and introduced, Carol Shields: The Arts of a Writing Life.
Winnipeg: Prairie Fire Press, 2003.
Journal:
Co-edited with Sergio Bellei, special issue of Desterros
(Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil) on
Postcolonialism in Canada and Brazil. 2003.
Book:
Translated into English Carmen L. Oliveira, Flores Raras e Banalíssimas:
A História de Lota de Macedo Soares e Elizabeth Bishop (Rio de Janeiro:
Rocco, 1995): Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Lota de
Macedo Soares and Elizabeth Bishop. New Jersey: Rutgers Univ. Press,
2001.
(Reprint, paperback, Rutgers 2003. Stonewall Honour Book, American
Library Association, 2002; Finalist, Lambda Literary Awards, 2002.) Used
as the main source for 2013 feature film, Reaching for the Moon, Dir.
Bruno Barreto. Portuguese film title: Flores Raras.
Journal:
Guest edited New Directions, special issue of Canadian Literature, No.
158 (Autumn, 1998).
Book:
Co-edited with D. Schnitzer and A. Turner, University of Winnipeg,
Uncommon Wealth: An Anthology of Poetry in English. Toronto: Oxford
University Press, 1997.
Journal:
Edited special issue of Prairie Fire on Carol Shields, Vol. 16, No. 1.
(Spring, 1995).
Book:
Co-edited, with David Staines, Univ. of Ottawa, The Short Story In
English. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Book:
Introducing Lives of Girls and Women. Toronto: ECW Press, 1990.
Book:
The Light of Imagination: Mavis Gallant's Fiction. Vancouver:
University of British Columbia Press, 1988.
2003 --
General Editor, Laurier Poetry Series, Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
Responsible for selecting poets and critics and for editing manuscripts.
Twenty-two volumes in print and several others in press as of January
2015 (on Tim Lilburn, ed. Alison Calder; Al Purdy, ed. Rob Budde; Di
Brandt, ed. Tanis McDonald; Don McKay, ed. Meira Cook; Lorna
Crozier, ed. Catherine Hunter; Christopher Dewdney, ed. Karl Jirgens,
Dennis Cooley, ed. Nicole Markotic; Don Domanski, ed. Brian Bartlett;
M. Travis Lane, ed. Jeanette Lynes; Louis Dudek, ed. Karis Shearer,
George Elliott Clarke, ed. J. P. Fiorentino; Dionne Brand, ed. Leslie
Sanders; Nicole Brossard, bilingual edition, ed. Louise Forsyth; Fred
Wah, ed. Louis Cabri.; Steve McCaffery, ed. Darren Wershler; Eli
Mandel, ed. Peter Webb; F.R. Scott, ed. Laura Moss; George Fetherling,
ed. A Moritz; derek beaulieau, ed. Kit Dobson; Tom Wayman, ed. Percy
Owen; Daphne Marlatt, ed. Susan Knutson; and Jan Zwicky, ed. Darren
Bifford).
2. SELECTED CHAPTERS and ARTICLES in BOOKS and JOURNALS,
1995 -Online Journal:
(On Alice Munro and the Nobel Prize.)
http://www.winnipegreview.com/wp/2013/10/the-short-story-of-alice-munro-and-the-nobel-prize/
Article:
“Geography IV.” (On Two Elizabeth Bishop poems.) In Berfrois
www.berfrois.com at http://www.berfrois.com/2012/03/neilbesner-where-rivers-meet/ February 2012.
Translation:
“Maria Rita,” Charles Kiefer. (Short story, from Portuguese into English.)
Special issue of Ellipse (Spring 2011).
Introduction:
Diálogos nas Américas - Brasil / Canadá: Culturas e Literaturas /
Dialogues in the Americas - Brazil / Canada: Cultures and Literatures.
N. 2. Editora Caetés: Rio de Janeiro, 2010.
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Article:
“Writing Saskatchewan: The First Hundred Years.” In Perspectives of
Saskatchewan. Ed. Jene M. Porter. Winnipeg, MB: University of
Manitoba Press, 2009: 288-305.
Article:
“Homeward Bound?” In Home Words: Discourses of Children’s
Literature in Canada. Ed. Mavis Reimer. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid
Laurier University Press, 2008: 225-31.
Article:
“Pos-colonialismo, Historia e Imaginação: Sor Juana Ines de la
Cruz em Hunger’s Brides de Paul Anderson.” In As(simetrias nas
Americas: Brasil/Canada: culturas e literaturas (A)symmetries in
the Americas – Brazil/Canada: cultures and literatures. Coedited, N. Besner, Carlinda Pate Nunez, and Maria Conceição
Monteiro. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Caetes, 2007: 25-33.
Article:
“Reading Linnet Muir, Netta Asher, and Carol Frazier: Three Gallant
Characters in Postcolonial Time.” In Tropes and Territories: Short
Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, Canadian Writing in Context. Ed. Marta
Dvorak and W.H. New. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s UP,
2007: 155-164.
Article:
“Translating North and South: Elizabeth Bishop, Biography, and Brazil.”
In Canadian Cultural exchanges/Echanges culturels au Canada:
Translation and Transculturation/Traduction et transculturation. Ed.
Norman Cheadle and Lucien Pelletier. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier
University Press, 2007: 307-21.
Article:
“A Figura da Mulher na Literatura Canadense Contemporanea.” In Entre
o estetico e o político : a mulher nas literaturas de linguas estrangeiras.
Ed. Maria Conceição Monteiro and Tereza Marques de Oliveira Lima.
Ilha de Santa Catarina : Editora Mulheres, 2006: 15-30.
Article:
“Canadian Fiction’s Future Callings: The Stone Diaries.” In Sobre
mulheres e suas representações. Ed. Francisco Venceslau dos Santos and
Maria Conceição Monteiro. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Editora Caetes, 2006:
78-89.
Article:
“Postcolonial Theory, Difference, and National Traditions: The Case for a
Brazilian-Canadian Dialogue.” In Perspectivas
Transnacionais/Transnational Perspectives/Perspectives
Transnationales. Ed. Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida.
Abecan/Faculdade de letras UFMG, Brazil, 2005: 23-29.
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Article:
« Explicite et implicite : ‘ Le probleme insurmontable de la
communication’ dans ‘Post and Beam’ d’Alice Munro .» In L’Implicite
Dans la Nouvelle de Langue Anglaise. Ed. Laurent Lepaludier. Rennes,
France : Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2005: 147-56.
Article:
“Two Solitudes Revisited : Canada Under Postcolonial Eyes.” In
Literaturas de Lingua Inglesa: Visões e Revisões. Ed. Tomich, Linda, et
al. Florianopolis, Brazil : Editora Insular, 2005: 513-528.
Article:
“Figurações do feminino em Unless de Carol Shields.” In Figurações do
feminino nas manifestações literárias. Eds. Maria Conceição Monteiro
and Tereza Marques de O. Lima. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Caetés, 2005:
165-75.
Article:
“Voice, Performance and Play in The Fall of Gravity.” In White Gloves of
the Doorman: The Works of Leon Rooke. Ed. Branko Gorjup. Toronto:
Exile Editions, 2004: 280-87.
Article:
“Re-Reading ‘The Moslem Wife’: Fugitive Irony in the Light of
Imagination.” In Transient Questions: New Essays on Mavis Gallant. Ed.
Kristjana Gunnars. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2004: 163-73.
Essay:
“Teaching Novels in the Classroom: Our Current Fictions About the
Reading Public.” In Read This: Why Books Matter. Ed. Karen Zoppa,
Pref. John Ralston Saul. Winnipeg: Gordon Shillingford, 2003: 13-18.
Article:
“What Resides in the Question, ‘Is Canada Postcolonial?’” Is Canada
Postcolonial: Unsetttling Canadian Literature. Ed. Laura Moss.
Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2003. 40-49.
Review Essay:
“Letters in Canada: Fiction II (2000).” University of Toronto Quarterly,
Vol. 71, No. 1(Winter 2002): 20-38.
Article:
“Elizabeth Bishop, Cookie, and Dona Elizabetchy: Translating the
Brazilian Biography of an American Poet.” Cadernos de Tradução, No.
6 (2000/02): 55-65.
Essay/Lecture:
“Reading West: Canada’s New Century.” Sixth annual Seagram’s
Lecture. McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, April 11, 2002.
Published at http://www.misc-iecm.mcgill.ca/publications/besner.pdf
Essay:
“Lost in Translation.” (On translating the Bishop Biography.)
Elizabeth Bishop Bulletin of Nova Scotia, Vol. 9, Issue 1 (Spring 2002):
3-4.
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Article:
“Bergen’s Beginnings.” Essays on Canadian Writing, Number 73 (Spring
2001): 166-83.
Article:
“Of Course We May Be Reading It All Wrong: ‘Santarem’ Twenty Years
Later.” Divisions of the Heart: Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Memory
and Place. Ed. Barry, Davies, Sanger. Wolfville, N.S.: Gaspereau, 2001.
259-65.
Review Essay:
“Letters in Canada: Fiction I (1999).” University of Toronto Quarterly,
Vol. 70, No. 1 (Winter 2001): 175-90.
Review Essay:
“Letters in Canada: Fiction II (1998).” University of Toronto Quarterly,
Vol. 69, No. 1 (Winter 1999/2000): 25-42.
Article:
“Reading Mavis Gallant in the 1990's: ‘The Fenton Child.’” University of
Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Fall 1999): 898-908.
Article:
“Patrick Friesen’s St. Mary at Main: A Book of Names.” Prairie Fire,
Vol. 20, No. 2 (Summer 1999): 216-222.
Article:
"Brazil in Bishop's Eyes.” “In Worcester, Massachusetts”: Essays on
Elizabeth Bishop. Ed. Laura Jehn Menides and Angela G. Dorenkamp.
New York: Peter Lang, 1999: 75-82.
Article:
“Cooley Interruptus.” Special issue of Prairie Fire on Dennis Cooley,
Vol. 19, No. 1 (Spring 1998): 71-76.
Article:
“Canadian Children’s Regional Literature: Fictions First.” Special issue
of Canadian Children’s Literature, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Summer 1997): 17-26.
Column:
“Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil.” Elizabeth Bishop Bulletin, Vol. 6, No.1
(Summer 1997): 2-4.
Article:
“Shining Like Phosphorus at the Bottom of the Sea: A.M. Klein.” Special
issue of Prairie Fire on Jewish writing, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1996):
135-39.
Article:
"A World Divided, A World Divined: Two North American Fictions."
(On John Irving, The World According to Garp and Margaret Laurence,
The Diviners.) New Perspectives on Margaret Laurence, ed. Greta Coger.
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press) 1996: 41-47.
Article:
"From Theory to Practice in the Post-Secondary Writing Classroom:
What's Wrong with What Works?" Inkshed, Vol. 12, No. 2 (December
1993): 5-10.
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Article:
"Beyond Two Solitudes, After Survival: Postmodern Fiction in Canada."
Postmodern Fiction in Canada, ed. Theo D'Haen and Hans Bertens
(Amsterdam: Rodopi; Antwerp: Restant), 1992: 9-25. Rpt. in At the
Edge: Canadian Literature and Culture at Century’s End. Ed. Sherwin,
Mayne, and Amossi. (Jerusalem: Magnus Press, 1995): 1-17.
3. SELECTED ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Entries on Alice Munro (3000 wds), Guy Vanderhaeghe (1000 wds.), and W.O. Mitchell (1000
wds.). In The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century World Fiction, Gen. Ed. Brian Shaffer; Ed.
John Clement Ball. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Entries on Mavis Gallant, Elizabeth Bishop, Theresa Gowanlock, J. E. Collins, Alexander Begg,
Mavis Gallant, and William Bleasdell Cameron, in the Encyclopedia of Canadian Literature, ed.
W.H. New (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto P) 2002: 101; 120-21; 221;408-10;172-73.
Entries on “The Canadian Novel in English”; "Jorge Amado"; and Dona Flor and Her Two
Husbands in Encyclopedia of the Novel, ed. P. Schellinger (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn), 2001.
Entry on Ken Mitchell in Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, ed. Eugene
Benson & L.W. Conolly. London: Routledge, 1994, Vol. 2, 1027-28.
Entries on bill bissett, Tom Marshall, Erin Mouré, Joe Rosenblatt, and Anne Szumigalski in The
Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry, ed. Ian Hamilton. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1994, 50, 342, 368, 461-62, 532.
Entry on Mavis Gallant in Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century, Vol. 5,
Supplement and Index. New York: Continuum, Frederick Ungar, 1993, 242-43.
Afterword for New Canadian Library edition of A Choice of Enemies, Mordecai Richler,
McLelland & Stewart, 1993.
Entry on the year's work and events in Canadian literature (1991) in the annual supplement to
Collier's Encyclopedia and Merit Students Encyclopedia, 1992 International Year Book (1991)
(New York: P.F. Collier, 1992), 172-74. Condensed in Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia,
1992 Yearbook: Events of 1991 (Funk & Wagnall's: 1992), 245-47.
Entries on Jorge Amado, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez, Northrop Frye, Mavis
Gallant, T.C. Haliburton, John Irving, Bob Dylan, Herzog, and The World According to Garp in
Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature, ed. G. Perkins, B. Perkins, and P.
Leininger (New York: Harper-Collins, 1991), 25, 1085-86, 367-68, 361-62, 366, 410, 518-19,
292, 449, 1159-60. Revised and updated, December 2000, for second edition.
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Entries on Nicholas Flood Davin, John Gyles, Alexander Henry, John Jewitt, Thomas D'Arcy
McGee, in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Canadian Writers Before 1890, vol. 99, ed. W.
New (Detroit: Gale, 1990), 87-91, 133-35, 161-63, 181-83, 234-40.
Entries on Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, William McLennan, and Theodore Goodridge Roberts in
Dictionary of Literary Biography: Canadian Writers, 1890-1920, vol. 92, ed. W. New (Detroit:
Gale, 1990), 132-37, 242-45, 309-13.
Entry on Henry Kreisel in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Canadian Writers, 1920-1959, vol.
88, Second Series, ed. W. New (Detroit: Gale, 1989), 147-52.
6 Biocritical entries on Canadian writers in Canadian Encyclopedia, second edition (and 40
entries from first edition, some revised). (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988).
Entry on Charles Yale Harrison in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Canadian Writers, 19201959, vol. 68, First Series, ed. W. New (Detroit: Gale, 1988), 162-64.
Entry on Ken Mitchell in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Canadian Writers Since 1960, vol.
60, Second Series, ed. W. New (Detroit: Gale, 1987), 255-59.
Entry on Andreas Schroeder in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Canadian Writers Since 1960,
vol. 53, First Series, ed. W. New (Detroit: Gale, 1986), 338-42.
40 entries (34 on Canadian books and 6 biocritical entries on Canadian writers) in Canadian
Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1985).
4. SELECTED REVIEWS, 1990 –
Review:
Wab Kinew, The Reason You Walk. Winnipeg Free Press,
Saturday, September 26, 2015, “Books,” p. D21.
Review:
Toni Morrison, God Help the Child. Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday, July
4, 2015. “Books,” p. D22.
Review:
David Bergen, Leaving Tomorrow. Prairie Fire, March 19, 2015.
http://www.prairiefire.ca/leaving-tomorrow/#more-2342
Review:
Lorna Goodison, Supplying Salt and Light; Catherine Greenwood, The
Lost Letters. Forthcoming, Journal of Canadian Poetry.
Review:
Ha Jin, A Map of Betrayal. Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday, January 17,
2015. “Books,” p. D22.
Review:
Alice Munro, Family Furnishings: Selected Stories. Winnipeg Free Press,
Saturday, January 10, 2015. “Books,” p. D21.
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Review:
Ghalib Islam, Fire in the Unnameable Country. Winnipeg Free Press,
Saturday, March 8, 2014. “Books,” p. 8.
Review:
Thomas J. Bengtsson, A Fairy Tale. Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday,
January 18, 2014. “Books,” p. 8.
Review:
Joseph Boyden, The Orenda. Winnipeg Free Press. Saturday, September
7, 2013. “Books,” p. 6.
Review:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah. Winnipeg Free Press,
Saturday, May 18, 2013. “Books,” p. 3.
Review:
Greg Bellow, Saul Bellow’s Heart: A Son’s Memoir. Winnipeg Free
Press, Saturday, April 27, 2013. “Books,” p. 8.
Review:
Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling. Winnipeg Free Press,
Saturday, January 5, 2013. “Books,” p. 6.
Review:
Louise Erdrich, The Round House. Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday,
November 3, 2012, “Books,” p. 2.
Review:
Méira Cook, The House on Sugarbush Road. Winnipeg Free Press,
Saturday, September 30, 2012, “Books,” p. 3.
Review:
Michael Buma, Refereeing Identity: The Cultural Work of Canadian
Hockey Novels. Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday, May 26, 2012, “Books,”
p. 8.
Review:
Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water. Ed. Sinclair
and Cariou. Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday March 31, 2012, “Books,” 4-5
Review:
Barry Dempster, Blue Wherever; rob mclennan, wild horses;
Paul Vermeersch, The Reinvention of the Human Hand. Forthcoming,
Journal of Canadian Poetry.
Review:
Kim Thuy, Ru. Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday, January 21, 2012,
“Books,” p. 3.
Rosamund Bartlett, Tolstoy: A Russian Life. Winnipeg Free Press,
Saturday, December 24, 2011, “Books,” p. 2.
Review:
Review:
Michael Ondaatje, The Cat’s Table. Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday,
September 3, 2011, “Books,” p. 3.
Review:
Steve Sem-Sandberg, The Emperor of Lies. Winnipeg Free Press,
Saturday, August 20, 2011, “Books,” p. 4.
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Review:
Charles Foran, Maurice Richard. Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday, March
12, 2011, “Books,” p. 6.
Review:
Lorna Goodison, By Love Possessed: Stories. Winnipeg Free Press,
Saturday, January 29, 2011, “Books,” p.2.
Review:
Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts, The Obvious Flap; Rob McLennan,
Glengarry; Ken Norris, Floating Up to Zero. Journal of Canadian Poetry,
Volume 28 (2011): 1-3.
Review:
José Saramago, The Elephant’s Journey. Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday,
September 25, 2010, “Books,” p. 6.
Review:
Paul Harding, Tinkers. Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday, August 28, 2010,
“Books,” p. 6.
Review:
Randall Maggs, Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems. Forthcoming, Journal
of Canadian Poetry, 2010.
Review:
Jason Blake, Canadian Hockey Literature. Winnipeg Free Press,
Saturday, March 20, 2010, “Books,” pp. 4-5.
Review:
Louise Erdrich, Shadow Tag. Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday, February 6,
2010, “Books,” p. 3.
Review:
Mavis Gallant, Going Ashore. Winnipeg Free Press, Sunday July 19,
2009, “Books,” p. 3.
Review:
Blaise Moritz, Crown and Ribs; Sonnet L’Abbée, killarnoe.
Journal of Canadian Poetry, Vol. 24 (2007): 72-77.
Review:
Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary. Ed. Marta Dvorak and Manina
Jones. University of Toronto Quarterly, “Letters in Canada”
(78.1), 2009: 454-55.
Review:
Arthur Moyter, The Staircase Letters: An Extraordinary Friendship at the
End of Life, with Elma Gerwin and Carol Shields. University of Toronto
Quarterly, “Letters in Canada” (78.1), 2009: 455-57.
Review:
Eleanor Wachtel, Random Illuminations: Conversations with Carol
Shields. University of Toronto Quarterly, “Letters in Canada” (78.1),
2009: 452-54.
Review:
Steve McOrmond, Primer on the Hereafter; Russell Thornton, The Human
Shore. Journal of Canadian Poetry, 2009.
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Review:
Anne Michaels, The Winter Vault. Winnipeg Free Press, Sunday April 5,
2009, “Books,” p. 3.
Review:
Reinhold Kramer, Mordecai Richler: Leaving St. Urbain. Winnipeg Free
Press, Sunday April 27, 2008, D4-5.
Review:
David Adams Richards, The Lost Highway. Winnipeg Free Press, Sunday
November 27, 2007, B5.
Review:
Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero. Winnipeg Free Press, Sunday April 22,
2007, B4-5.
Review:
Catherine Greenwood, The Pearl King and Other Poems; Jan Zwicky,
Robinson’s Crossing. Journal of Canadian Poetry, Vol. 21 (2004):
102-08.
Review:
Mary Dalton, Merrybegot; alastair macdonald, If More Winters, or this
the Last. Journal of Canadian Poetry, 2007.
Review:
Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock. Winnipeg Free
Press, Sunday September 24, 2006, B7.
Review:
Barbara and Ormond Mitchell, The Life of W.O. Mitchell: The Years of
Fame, 1948-1998. Winnipeg Free Press, Sunday December 4, 2005, B7.
Review:
Robert Thacker, Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives. Winnipeg Free Press,
Sunday November 27, 2005, B6.
Review:
Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores.
Winnipeg Free Press, Sunday, October 23, 2005, B7.
Review:
David Stouck, As For Sinclair Ross. Winnipeg Free Press, Sunday, July
31, 2005, D3.
Review:
Marlene Cookshaw, Shameless; Carolyn Zonailo, The Goddess in the
Garden. Forthcoming, Journal of Canadian Poetry, 2005.
Review:
Nicole Côté, Peter Sabor, Eds. Varieties of Exile: New Essays on Mavis
Gallant. University of Toronto Quarterly 74.1 (2004/05): 580-81.
Review:
Paul Anderson, Hunger’s Brides. Winnipeg Free Press, Sunday, October
2004, D 3.
Review:
Lyall Powers, Alien Heart: The Life and Work of Margaret Laurence.
Winnipeg Free Press, Sunday, October 5, 2003, D3.
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Review:
Helen Pereira, Birds of Paradise; Jennifer Duncan, Sanctuary and Other
Stories; Robyn Sarah, Promise of Shelter. Canadian Literature, 177
(Summer 2003): 139-41.
Review:
Patrick Friesen, carrying the shadow. Journal of Mennonite Studies, Vol.
19 (2001): 251-2.
Review:
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin. Winnipeg Free Press, Sept.10,
2000, D6.
Review:
Carol Shields, Dressing Up for the Carnival. Prairie Fire, 2001.
Review:
Michael Ondaatje, Anil’s Ghost. Winnipeg Free Press, April 9, 2000, D1,
3.
Review:
Review:
Miriam Toews, A Boy of Good Breeding. Prairie Fire, 2001.
Magic Lies: The Art of W.O. Mitchell, ed. Sheila Latham and David
Latham. University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Winter 199899): 555-56.
Review:
“The Overwriter.” Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter. Essays on
Canadian Writing, 65 (Fall 1998): 227-32.
Review:
Jerusalem: An Anthology of Jewish Canadian Poetry, ed. Seymour Mayne
and B. Glen Rotchin. Journal of Canadian Poetry, Vol. 13 (1998), 14042.
Review:
"The torso verb, the beautiful face of the noun." Pollock, Mayne, and
Caplan, eds., A.M. Klein: Selected Poems. Prairie Fire, Vol. 19, No. 2
(Summer 1998), 148-49.
Review:
“Artful Initiations East and West.” Roch Carrier, The Basketball Player,
Irene Morck, Tiger’s New Cowboy Boots. Canadian Children’s
Literature, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring 1998), 61-2.
Review:
Norman Shrive, The Voice of the Burdash: The Divided Mind in
Canadian Literature. University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 1
(Winter 1997/98), 254-55.
Interview:
"'You Seek Around Backwards Somewhere Trying to Phrase It': An
Interview with Al Purdy." Prairie Fire, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Winter 1998), 610.
Review:
Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version. Prairie Fire, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Winter
1998), 104-106.
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Review:
“From ‘Suzanne’ to ‘I’m Your Man’: The Cohen that Everybody
Knows.” Rev. of Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen, Ira Nadel.
Prairie Fire, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Summer 1997), 110-12.
Review:
Reconcilable Differences: The Changing Face of Canadian Poetry By
Men since 1970. Ed. Christopher Levenson. Journal of Canadian Poetry,
Vol. 11 (1996), 170-76.
Review:
"Bishop's Many Arts." Bonnie Costello, Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of
Mastery; Joanne F. Diehl, Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore: The
Psychodynamics of Creativity; Victoria Harrison, Elizabeth Bishop's
Poetics of Intimacy; Brett Millier, Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory
of It. Canadian Literature, 150 (Fall 1996), 115-17.
Review:
Nancy Shaw, Scoptocratic, Eric Ormsby, Coastlines. Journal of
Canadian Poetry, Vol. 9 (1994): 91-95.
Review:
Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries. Prairie Fire, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Winter,
1993-94), 106-109.
Review:
Timothy Findley, Headhunter and The Stillborn Lover. Border Crossings,
Vol. 12, No. 4 (October 1993), 59-62.
Review:
Margaret Atwood, Good Bones. Canadian Literature, 138/139
(Fall/Winter 1993), 105-106.
Review:
Anne Szumigalski, Rapture of the Deep. Journal of Canadian Poetry,
Vol. 8 (1993), 133-36.
Review:
Susan Glickman, Henry Moore's Sheep and Other Poems. Journal of
Canadian Poetry, Vol. 7 (1993), 80-85.
Review:
"Ricci's Promise." Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints. Essays on Canadian
Writing, 47 (Fall 1992), 69-73.
Review:
"Symphony about the City." Toni Morrison, Jazz. Winnipeg Free Press,
20 June 1992, F66.
Review:
"The Great Canadian Novel looked at over 50 years." David Stouck, ed.,
Sinclair Ross's As For Me and My House: Five Decades of Criticism.
Winnipeg Free Press, 2 May 1992, F66.
Review:
"Two Sides of Robertson Davies." Elspeth Cameron, ed., Robertson
Davies: An Appreciation. Winnipeg Free Press, 25 Jan. 1992, F59.
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Review:
David Williams, Confessional Fictions: A Portrait of The Artist in the
Canadian Novel. Prairie Fire, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Winter, 1991-92), 101-3.
Review:
M. Travis Lane, Reckonings: Poems, 1979-85. Journal of Canadian
Poetry, Vol. 5 (1990), 82-86.
5. SELECTED PAPERS PRESENTED, 1990-“’Reaching for the Moon’/’Flores Raras’: Bishop, Biography, and Brazil.” Sheffield, England:
“Elizabeth Bishop’s Questions of Travel: Fifty Years After.” June 26, 2015.
“Brasil e Canadá: amigos, parceiros, e muito mais / Brazil and Canada: friends, partners, and
much more.” Keynote address, Maple Bear Schools Convention, Campinas, State of São Paulo,
Brazil. May 16, 2015.
“A Broken Globe: The Rifts Between Old World and New in Henry Kreisel’s Fiction.”
Vienna, Austria: “Exiles and Returnees, and their Impact in the Humanities and Social Sciences
in Austria and Central Europe.” April 25, 2015.
“’Dull, Simple, Amazing, and Unfathomable’: Love, Munro’s Stories, and the Heartbreaking
Hope for Accuracy.” Keynote address, Alice Munro Symposium, Harbin Institute of Technology
(H.I.T.), Harbin, China. July 26, 2014.
“Canadian Literature: Some Points of Departure.” Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin,
China. July 25, 2014.
“Flores Raras e Banalíssimas: O filme, tradução, ficçᾶo, e biografia.” (“Rare and Commonplace
Flowers: The Film, Translation, Fiction, and Biography.”) Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul,
Brazil: Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul. Conferencia Internacional:
Transletramentos, Fronteiras e Ensino de Linguas e Literaturas. (International Conference on
Language and Literature.) August 23, 2013.
“In Short.” (On Carol Shields’s Short Stories.) Symposium on Carol Shields, University of
Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario. April 28, 2012.
“Geography IV.” (On Elizabeth Bishop’s poems “Santarém” and “The Riverman.”.) One of
three keynotes at “Dazzling Dialectic”: A Celebration of Bishop’s Centenary, Ouro Preto, Brazil,
November 10, 2011.
“Pós-colonialismo, história e imaginação: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz em Hunger's Brides, de Paul
Anderson.” Florianopolis, Brazil: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, March 19, 2010.
“Brazil: An Introduction to its Geography, History, Language, and Culture.” University of
Winnipeg, September 15, 2009.
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“Recruitment and Retention: An International Dimension.” University of Winnipeg, April 25,
2009. Canadian Conference of Deans of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
“Two Solitudes Revisited: Canada Under Postcolonial Eyes.” University of Wollongong,
Australia, Centre for Canadian-Australian Studies. December 16, 2008.
“Seventeenth-Century Nationalism, Feminism, and the Local/Global Vocation of Contemporary
Canadian Fiction: Paul Anderson’s Hunger’s Brides.” Victoria University, Wellington, New
Zealand. Keynote address at conference: “Flogging A Dead Horse: Are National Literatures
Finished?” December 12, 2008.
“Contemporary Issues in Brazil: An Introduction.” University of Winnipeg, September 19,
2008.
“Pos-colonialismo, história e imaginação: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz em Hunger’s Brides de Paul
Anderson.” (Postcolonialism, History, and Imagination: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz in Paul
Anderson’s Hunger’s Brides.) UERJ (State University of Rio de Janeiro), Encontro
Internacional Brasil e Canada: Pos-colonialismo em perspectiva. (International Engagements,
Brazil and Canada: Postcolonialism in Perspective.) Rio de Janeiro, November 24, 2006.
“Escritores canadenses e o cinema: The English Patient, de Michael Ondaatje.” (Canadian
writers and film: Michael Ondatje’s The English Patient.) UERJ (State University of Rio de
Janeiro), Encontro Internacional Brasil e Canada: Pos-colonialismo em perspectiva. Rio de
Janeiro, November 24, 2006.
Five lectures on Canadian literature (the short story; Margaret Atwood; Carol Shields;
Postcolonialism, Postmodernism, and Canadian Literature; and the West in Canadian Literature)
delivered at Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, May 16, 18, 19, 23, and 26, 2006).
“A Figura da Mulher na Literatura Canadense Contemporanea e Algumas Raizes do
Poscolonialismo no Canada.” (The Figure of the female in contemporary Canadian writing and
some origins of postcolonialism in Canada.) Keynote address, ABECAN (Brazilian Association
for Canadian Studies), Gramado, Brazil, November 12, 2005.
“A Figura da mulher na literatura canadense contemporanea. » XI Seminario Nacional Mulher e
Literatura, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (« The figure of the female in contemporary Canadian
writing.”) Keynote address, August 5, 2005, at the Second International Seminar on Women and
Literature. Also delivered August 11 and 12, at UNESP campuses, São Paulo state, Brazil, in São
José do Rio Preto and Araraquara.
“Contemporary Canadian Literature and Culture.” Talk given at UERJ, State University of Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, August 9, 2005.
“Reading Linnet Muir, Netta Asher, and Carol Frazier: Three Gallant Characters in Postcolonial
Time.” Tropes and Territories: Reading Postcolonial Short Fiction. Paris: Sorbonne Nouvelle,
Institut du Monde Anglophone, April 23, 2005.
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“Contemporary Canadian Writing: An Other View.” Who Are We? Otherness in Canadian
Studies. McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, McGill University, March 11, 2005.
“The Prairies Rewritten: The Englishman’s Boy.” The Prairies Lost and Found, University of
Manitoba, Sept. 25, 2004.
“Questions of Travel.” Plenary panel at Teaching Travel Conference, University of Western
Ontario, March 2004.
“Dylan’s long narrative songs: dark initiations into polyvalent selfhood.” ACCUTE session at
Congress meetings, University of Manitoba, June 2, 2004.
“Mordecai Richler: Canadian Content?” “The Richler Challenge”, McGill University, Montreal,
March 19, 2004.
“Postcolonial Theory, Difference, and National Traditions: The Case for a Brazilian-Canadian
Dialogue” ABECAN International Conference (Brazilian Association for Canadian Studies),
Federal University of Minas Gerais, November, 2003.
“Pos-colonialismo e história, norte e sul.” (Postcolonialism and History, North and South.)
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, November, 2003.
Address to Manitoba Editors’ Association, Winnipeg, Sept. 9, 2003.
“Two Solitudes Revisited: Canada Under Postcolonial Eyes.” Federal University of Minas
Gerais, Brazil, April 4, 2003; SENAPULLI (Brazilian national association for teachers of
language and literature in English) plenary address, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, April
10, 2003; State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 14, 2003.
“Some Short Thoughts on the Short Story.” University of Winnipeg, Lectures on Genre series,
Feb. 27, 2003.
“Translating North and South: Elizabeth Bishop, Biography, and Brazil.” Laurentian University,
Sudbury, Ontario, Institute for the Humanities, Oct. 28, 2002.
“Reading West: Canada’s New Century.” Sixth Annual Seagram’s Lecture, McGill University,
Montreal (McGill Institute for the Study of Canada), April 11, 2002. (Published on McGill
Institute of Canada Website.)
“The Canadian Short Story on the Prairies: Margaret Laurence and her Predecessors.”
University of Rouen, Rouen, France, March 21, 2002.
“The Implicit in Alice Munro’s ‘Post and Beam.’” University of Angers, Angers, France,
March 18, 2002.
“In Short: The Contemporary Canadian Story, Alice Munro, and Mavis Gallant.” Le Sorbonne
Nouvelle, Paris, France, March 16, 2002.
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“Saskatchewan Writing, the First 100 Years.” Canadian Institute for the Study of the
Humanities, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, November 16, 2001.
“Bergen’s Beginnings.” On the short stories of David Bergen. “The Prairies: Visited and
Revisited” conference, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, September 21, 2001.
“Elizabeth Bishop, Cookie, and Dona Elizabetchy: Translating the Brazilian Biography of an
American Poet.” Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, May 29, 2001.
“What Resides in the Question, ‘Is Canada Postcolonial?’” Conference, “Is Canada
Postcolonial?” at Winnipeg, Sept. 14, 2000.
“O Poema ‘Squatter’s Children’ de Elizabeth Bishop: Quem Lê, e Como Enxergar?” BRASA
(Association for Brazilian Studies), Recife, Brazil, June 21, 2000.
“Future Directions in Bishop Studies.” Longbeach, California, panel on “Future Directions in
Elizabeth Bishop Studies: Bishop in Brazil.” American Literature Association, May 25, 2000.
“Rereading Bishop’s Brazil.” Elizabeth Bishop Conference, Ouro Preto, Brazil, May 25, 1999.
“Canadian Poetry.” Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, May 19,
1999.
“Crossing All the Borders: Recent Fiction in the Canadian West.” Twelfth Canadian Studies
Seminar: “The Canadian West.” Nordic Association for Canadian Studies. Paper read at Aarhus
University, Aarhus, Denmark (November 7, 1998); University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
(November 9, 1998); and Lund University, Lund, Sweden (November 10, 1998).
“The Poetry of Patrick Friesen.” Canadian Studies Seminar, Aarhus University, Aarhus,
Denmark, November 7, 1998.
"Of Course We May Be Reading It All Wrong: 'Santarém' After Another Twenty Years." (On
Elizabeth Bishop's Brazilian Poems.) Elizabeth Bishop Conference, Acadia University,
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, September 26, 1998.
"Brazil in Bishop's Eyes." (On Elizabeth Bishop's Brazilian poems.) The Elizabeth Bishop
Conference and Poetry Festival, Worcester, Massachusetts, October 11, 1997.
“Canadian Fiction’s Future Callings: The Stone Diaries.” International Canadian Studies
Conference, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, May 15, 1996.
"Great Canadian Shields." Keynote Address, 1994, Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North
Dakota Annual Conference, Winnipeg, October 1994.
"Beyond Two Solitudes, After Survival: Postmodern Fiction in a Postcolonial Culture."
International Canadian Studies Conference, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, May 18,
1992.
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"Rereading 'The Moslem Wife': Irony in The Light of Imagination." (On Mavis Gallant's
fiction.) Biennial ACSUS (Association for Canadian Studies in the United States) Conference,
Boston, November 21, 1991.
"Titular Claims: European Perspectives on Contemporary Canadian Writing." Our Futures:
Third Interdisciplinary Symposium on Western Canada and Europe, Trier - Manitoba University
Partnership, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, September 11, 1990. (Revised
version read at meeting of Circle of Modern Philology, Prague, Czechoslovakia, May 30, 1991.)
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