Neil Besner: Curriculum Vitae


	Curriculum Vitae Neil K. Besner English Department University of Winnipeg 515 Portage Avenue Winnipeg MB, Canada R3B 2E9 t: (204) 786-9294 (office) 011-55-21-274-6325 (home) f: (204) 774-4134; or 011-55-21-294-9684 e: n.besner@uwinnipeg.ca

	Languages Other Than English Portuguese, Spanish, French

	Post-Secondary Education
	1983		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 New. External examiner: Professor David Staines, English Department, University of Ottawa.
	1974		M.A., University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan. Field: American literature. Thesis: Saul Bellow’s Protagonists: A Struggle for Self-Transcendence.
	1972		B.A. (Honours English), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.

	Teaching Experience
	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.
	1983-87		Instructor, English Department, Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta. Co-ordinator of Composition Courses, September 1983 - June 1985.
	1982-83		Teaching Assistant, English Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia. Instructor, English Department, Kwantlen College, Vancouver, British Columbia.
	1980-81		Instructor, English Department, Okanagan College, Penticton, British Columbia.
	1978-80		Instructor, Centre for Continuing Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.
	1978-79		Teaching Assistant, English Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.
	1976-78		Sessional Lecturer, English Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.
	1975-76		Sessional Lecturer, English Department, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan. Instructor, Plains Community College, Regina, Saskatchewan.
	1975		Instructor, Epicenter Language Academy, Seville, Spain.
	1973-74		Instructor, English Department, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan.
	1972-73		Teaching Assistant, English Department, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan.

	Courses Taught
	English 4341		Seminar: Individual Author: Alice Munro
	English 4712		Seminar: Topics in Canadian Literature
	English 4711		Seminar: Canadian Literature
	English 3713		Contexts in Canadian Literature
	English 3712		Canadian Regional Literature
	English 3711		Canadian Literature
	English 1220		Survey of Canadian Literature
	English 1221		Contemporary Canadian Literature
	English 101		Modern Canadian Literature
			“History of Canadian Literature” (Prague)
	English 099		Remedial Grammar and Composition
	English 100		Introduction to Literature and Composition
	English 1110		Principles of Expository Writing
	English 301		Technical and Business Writing
	English 303		Advanced Expository Writing English
	2181		Writing Across the Curriculum
	ESL 010-040		English as a Second Language
	English 1202		Introduction to Poetry and Drama
	English 211/12		Major Authors Survey
	English 2201		Principles of Composition
	English 2231		Introduction to Fiction
	English 2237		Introduction to Dramatic Literature
	English 2357		The Short Story
	English 2142		Fundamentals of Literary Study
	English 4651		Seminar: Modern American Fiction
	English 4531		Seminar: Modern American Poetry
	English 4642		Seminar: Modern Fiction in Translation Courses are from first year to fourth year honours seminar levels, taught at Okanagan College, Kwantlen College, Douglas College, Mount Royal College, University of Regina, University of British Columbia, University of Winnipeg, and Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. In March-May 2001, I am scheduled to teach a graduate course at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, in Florianopolis, Brazil, on Canadian literature and the Postcolonial Moment; as of September 2001, I will be at McGill as the 2001-2002 Seagram Chair, and I will teach one course, “Understanding Western Canada,” at the Institute for the Study of Canada at McGill, and one course, “Canadian Fiction Since 1970,” for the English Department at McGill.

	Theses Directed Or Examined
			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, 1995.
			External Examiner for M.A. thesis on Mavis Gallant, University of Regina, 1995.
			External Examiner for M.A. thesis on Mavis Gallant, Lakehead University, 1994.
			External Examiner for M.A. thesis on Alice Munro, Acadia University, 1992.
			External Examiner for two diploma theses (on Margaret Atwood and on American Literature), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 1991 and 1992.

	Awards And Grants
	2000		University of Winnipeg International Travel Grant to deliver a paper in Recife, Brazil (June 21, 2000).
	1999		University of Winnipeg Discretionary Grant for travel in Brazil to deliver a lecture on Canadian literature at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Dec. 9, 1999).
	1999		University of Winnipeg International Travel Grant (SSHRCC) for travel to Brazil to deliver papers at International Conference on Elizabeth Bishop (May 19, 1999).
	1996		University of Winnipeg International Travel Grant (SSHRCC) for travel to Jerusalem to deliver a paper on Carol Shields at Israeli Association for Canadian Studies meeting (June 1996).
	1994/95		Discretionary and Research Grants totalling $3,200 awarded for editing assistance with Uncommon Wealth: An Anthology of Poetry in English, co-edited with D. Schnitzer and A. Turner.
	1994		U. of Winnipeg International Travel Grant (SSHRCC) for travel to Jerusalem to deliver a paper at Israeli Association for Canadian Studies meeting. (Award declined.)
	1992		U. of Winnipeg International Travel Grant (SSHRCC) for travel to Jerusalem to deliver a paper at meeting of the International Council for Canadian Studies.
	1991		With Professor Alan Mills, University of Winnipeg, granted $10,000 (SSHRCC Grant, Aid to Small Universities Program) to coordinate conference with Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Conference took place in Winnipeg, March 1992, and Prague, May 1992.
	1989		Dept. of External Affairs Travel Grant to deliver talks on Canadian literature in Holland and Belgium.
	1988 - 91		Nominated each year for Clifford Robson Teaching Award, University of Winnipeg
	1988		U. of Winnipeg Travel Grant.
	1988		U. of Winnipeg International Travel Grant (SSHRCC) to deliver talk on Canadian literature In France.
	1988/90/92/94/96		University of Winnipeg Exceptional Merit Awards
	1981-82		SSHRCC Doctoral Fellowship
	1979-80		SSHRCC Doctoral Fellowship
	1973		Summer Scholarship, University of Regina
	1972		Lionel Shapiro Creative Writing Award, McGill University

	Membership In Professional Associations
			ACCUTE (Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English)
			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)
			MLA Delegate Assembly Member (Regional delegate, Western Canada and U.S., 1997 - 99)
			MWG (Manitoba Writer’s Guild; President, 1991-93)
			President, Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota (1994-95)
			Advisory Board, Elizabeth Bishop Society (1998 —)
			Chair, Advisory Board, Winnipeg Writers’ Festival (1998-2000)
			Editorial Board, Essays on Canadian Writing
			Editorial Board, Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne
			Editorial Board, Journal of Canadian Poetry
			Consulting Editor, Inkshed
			Editorial Board, Turnstone Press (1992-99)

	Committee Work
	March 2000 - April 2000		Chair, Chancellor’s Selection Committee, University of Winnipeg
	Feb 2000 - Sept. 2000		Member, Advisory Board, Creative Communications Program, Red River College Sept.
	1998 - June 2000		Member, Appeals Committee, University of Winnipeg
	Sept. 1997 - June 2000		Member, Academic Planning Committee, University of Winnipeg
	Sept. 1997 - June 1998		Member, Board of Regents, University of Winnipeg
	Sept. 1997 - Dec. 1999		Member, Ethics Committee, University of Winnipeg
	Sept. 1997 - April 2000		Member, Faculty of Arts and Science Curriculum Committee, University of Winnipeg; Chair, April 1999 - April 2000
	Nov. 1995 - April 1996		Member, Search Committee for the Vice-President (Academic)
	Sept. 1995 - April 1996		Chair, University Distinguished Lecturers’ Committee
	Sept. 1995 - April 1996		Chair of Chairs’ Group
	July 1995 - Dec. 1996		Member, Board of Regents, University of Winnipeg
	Sept. 1994 - Jan. 1995		Ad HocCommittee to Prepare a University of Winnipeg Response to the Report of the University Education Review (Roblin) Commission
	July 1993 - June 2000		Chair, English Department, University of Winnipeg
	Sept. 1993 - July 1995		Academic Planning Committee, University of Winnipeg
	Dec. 1992 - April 1994		Negotiating Team, University of Winnipeg Faculty Association
	Sept. 1992 - May 1993		President’s Committee on Academic Innovation, University of Winnipeg
	Sept. 1992 - May 1993		Writing in the Disciplines Committee (University-wide), University of Winnipeg
	Sept. 1992 - May 1993		Coordinating Committee, Writing Program Review, University of Winnipeg
	Sept. 1992 - May 1993		Departmental Review Committee, English Department, University of Winnipeg Sept.
	1990 - July 1991		Acting Chair, F.C.A.S. Appeals Committee (University-wide), University of Winnipeg
	Sept. 1989 - July 1991		Chair, Personnel Committee, English Department, University of Winnipeg
	Sept. 1988 - Aug. 1989		Chair, Freshman Committee, English Department, University of Winnipeg
	Sept. 1988 - Aug. 1990		Visiting Lecturers’ Committee (University-wide), University of Winnipeg; Chair, Sept. 1989 - Aug. 1990
	Sept. 1987 - May 1991		Rhetoric and Composition Committee, English Department, University of Winnipeg
	Sept. 1987 - Aug. 1990		Visiting Lecturers’ Committee, English Department, University of Winnipeg
	Sept. 1987 - Sept. 1988		Library Committee, English Department, University of Winnipeg
	Sept. 1984 - June 1986		Chair, Academic Council, Mount Royal College
	Sept. 1985 - Dec. 1986		Chair, Constitutional Review Committee, Mount Royal College
	Sept. 1985 - June 1986		Chair, Literary Committee, English Department, Mount Royal College
	Jan. 1983 - June 1987		Literary Committee, English Department, Mount Royal College
	Sept. 1977 - April 1979		English 100 Steering Committee, English Department, University of British Columbia
	Sept. 1975 - May 1976		ESL Steering Committee, University of Regina
	Sept. 1972 - May 1973		English Department Advisory Committee, University of Regina
	Sept. 1971 - May 1972		English Department Steering Committee, McGill University

	Publications

	Book		Translated Carmen L. Oliveira, Flores Raras e Banalíssimas: A História de Lota de MacedoSoares e Elizabeth Bishop(Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 1995): Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Lota de Macedo Soares and Elizabeth Bishop. Forthcoming, Rutgers Univ. Press, Feb. 2002.
	Book		Guest editedNew 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.
	Book		Edited, special issue of Prairie Fireon 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.
	Article		“Of Course We May Be Reading It All Wrong: ‘Santarem’ Twenty Years Later.” Forthcoming in book of essays on Elizabeth Bishop, Gaspereau Press, Fall 2000.
	Review Essay		“Letters in Canada: Fiction I (1999).” Forthcoming, University of Toronto Quarterly, Winter 2001. Review Essay: “Letters in Canada: Fiction II (1998).” University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Winter1999/2000), 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 Fireon 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 Garpand 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.
	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. Sherwin, Mayne, and Amossi. (Jerusalem: Magnus Press, 1995), 1-17. Essay: “In Other Words: Fiction in Translation.” Prairie Fire, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Summer 1993), 82-86.
	Column		“Invention and its Discontents: A Polemical Free-write.” Inkshed, Vol. 11, No. 2 (December 1992), 12-14.
	Article		“The Bodies in the Text in Lives of Girls and Women: Del Jordan’s Reading.” In Multiple Voices: Recent Canadian Fiction, ed. Jeanne Delbaere (Sydney, Australia: Dangaroo Press, 1990), 131-44. (Proceedings of the IVth International Symposium of the Brussels Centre for Canadian Studies, 29 November - 1 December 1989).
	Article		“The Language of ‘Waiting’: Voice, Idiom, and Cliché in Keath Fraser’s Short Fiction.” Visions Critiques(Sorbonne Nouvelle), Special Issue, La Nouvelle de Langue Anglaise/The Short Story, 1989, 15-22.
	Article		“The Corruption of Memory: Mavis Gallant’s ‘An Autobiography.’” RANAM XX (1987), 35-40.
	Article		“Coming of Age in New Zealand: Buster O’Leary among STC, Rhett Butler, Hell’s Angels, and Others.” Ariel, Vol. 18, No. 1 (January 1987), 63-73.
	Article		“A Broken Dialogue: History and Memory in Mavis Gallant’s Short Fiction.” Essays on Canadian Writing, 33 (Fall 1986), 89-99.
	Article		“Kreisel’s Broken Globes.” Canadian Literature, 107 (Winter 1985), 103-111.
	Article		“Process Against Product: A Real Opposition?” English Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Fall 1985), 9-16.
	Entries		Mavis Gallant, Elizabeth Bishop, Theresa Gowanlock, J. E. Collins, Alexander Begg, and William Bleasdell Cameron, in the Encyclopedia of Canadian Literature, ed. W.H. New (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto P), forthcoming, 2001.
	Entries		“The Canadian Novel in English"; “Jorge Amado"; and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbandsin Encyclopedia of the Novel, ed. P. Schellinger (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn). Forthcoming, 2001.
	Entry		Ken Mitchell in Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, ed. Eugene Benson & L.W. Conolly. London: Routledge, 1994, Vol. 2, 1027-28.
	Entries		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		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		New Canadian Library edition of A Choice of Enemies, Mordecai Richler, McLelland & Stewart, 1993.
	Entry		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		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 Garpin 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 forthcoming second edition.
	Entries		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		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		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		Charles Yale Harrison in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Canadian Writers, 1920-1959, vol. 68, First Series, ed. W. New (Detroit: Gale, 1988), 162-64.
	Entry		Ken Mitchell in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Canadian Writers Since 1960, vol. 60, Second Series, ed. W. New (Detroit: Gale, 1987), 255-59.
	Entry		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).
	Review		Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin. Winnipeg Free Press, Sept. 10, 2000, D6.
	Review		Carol Shields, Dressing Up for the Carnival. Forthcoming, Prairie Fire, 2001.
	Review		Michael Ondaatje, Anil’s Ghost. Winnipeg Free Press, April 9, 2000, D1, 3.
	Review		Miriam Toews, A Boy of Good Breeding. Forthcoming, Prairie Fire, 2001.
	Review		Magic Lies: The Art of W.O. Mitchell, ed. Sheila Latham and David Latham. University ofToronto Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Winter 1998-99), 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, Vo. 13 (1998), 140-42.
	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), 6-10.
	Review		Mordecai Richler, Barney’s Version. Prairie Fire, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Winter 1998), 104-106.
	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, Headhunterand 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.
	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.
	Review		“Short Story Collection Spans Time and Emotions.” (W.D. Valgardsen, What Can’t Be Changed Shouldn’t Be Mourned.) The University of Winnipeg Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring 1991), 12.
	Review		“Community and Communion.” (On Manitoba Writers’ Guild Fall 1990 Conference.) NeWest Review16:2 (Dec. 1990/ Jan. 1991), 7-8.
	Review		“Local Polarities.” Susan Copoloff-Mechanic, Pilgrim’s Progress: A Study of the Short Stories of Hugh Hood. Canadian Literature, 126 (Autumn 1990), 142-43.
	Review		Frank Davey, Reading Canadian Reading. American Review of Canadian Studies, XIX: 2 (1989), 230-32.
	Review		“Transits Pastward.” Mavis Gallant, In Transit. Event, 18:2 (Summer 1989), 105-07.
	Review		“A Song Out of Sorrow.” Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy. Event, 18:1 (Spring 1989), 146-49.
	Review		Fred Stenson, ed., Alberta Bound: Thirty Stories by Alberta Writers. Wascana Review, 23:1 (Spring 1988), 111-15.
	Review		“The City and the Word, West.” Keath Fraser, Foreign Affairs. Essays on Canadian Writing, 36 (Spring 1988), 64-70.
	Review		“Fire and Ice.” Mavis Gallant, Paris Notebooks: Essays and Reviews. Canadian Literature, 116 (Spring 1988), 148-49.
	Review		Dennis Lee, ed., The New Canadian Poets, 1970-1985. Journal of Canadian Poetry, Vol. 2 (1987), 131-36.
	Review		Carole Gerson, ed., Vancouver Short Stories; David Watmough, ed., Vancouver Fiction. B.C. Studies, (Spring 1987), 74-78.
	Review		Gary Geddes, Changes of State; Yvonne Trainer, Everything Happens at Once. Wascana Review, 21:2 (Fall 1986), 112-16.
	Review		“Inland Rule.” Jane Rule, Inland Passage. Canadian Literature, 110 (Fall 1986), 139-40.
	Review		“In Distress.” Brian Fawcett, Capital Tales; Nora Keeling, Chasing Her Own Tail. Canadian Literature, 108 (Spring 1986), 162-63.
	Review		“Reading Plays.” Anne Chislett, Quiet in the Land, Mavis Gallant, What Is To Be Done? Canadian Literature, 104 (Spring 1985), 128-30.
	Review		“Abundant Form.” Sharon Butala, Bonnie Burnard, Sharon Sparling, Coming Attractions; Elizabeth Brewster, A House Full of Women; 83: Best Canadian Stories, ed. D. Helwig and S. Martin. Canadian Literature, 103 (Winter 1984), 119-21.
	Review		“The Most Part.” Hugh Hood, Trusting the Tale; Robert Currie, Night Games. Canadian Literature, 102 (Autumn 1984), 179-81.
	Review		“Across Broken Globes.” Henry Kreisel, The Almost Meeting and Other Stories. Canadian Literature, 94 (Autumn 1982), 125-27. Rpt. in Another Country: Writings By and About Henry Kreisel, ed. Shirley Neuman (Edmonton: NeWest Press, 1985), 334-37.
	Review		Aharon Appelfeld, The Age of Wonders. Edmonton Journal, 1 May 1982, p. D6.
	Review		Saul Bellow, The Dean’s December. Edmonton Journal, 13 March 1982, p. D8.
	Review		“Regionalism, Realism.” Roch Carrier, The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories; Paul Cameron Browne, The Land of Look Behind; Sheldon Currie, The Glace Bay Miner’s Museum; Douglas Daymond, ed., Selected Stories of Mazo de la Roche. Canadian Literature, 91 (Winter 1981), 131-34.
	Review		James A. MacNeill, Prairie Fire. Pacific Northwest Review of Books, I:3 (June 1978).
	Review		Geraldine Anthony, ed., Stage Voices: Twelve Canadian Playwrights Talk About Their Lives and Work. Pacific Northwest Review of Books, I:2 (May 1978). Review
	Article		“Open Letter to Saul Bellow.” Sphinx, 2:1 (Winter 1976), 58-62.
	Review		Philip Roth, The Breast. Sphinx, 1:1 (Winter 1974), 53-4.

	Papers Presented

			“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.” May 25, 2000 Longbeach, California, on “Future Directions in Elizabeth Bishop Studies: Bishop in Brazil.” American Literature Association. “Rereading Bishop’s Brazil.” Elizabeth Bishop Conference, Ouro Preto, Brazil, May 25, 1999. “Canadian Poetry.” Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, 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. “From Theory to Practice in the Post-Secondary Writing Classroom: What’s Wrong with What Works?” Building Bridges: Second National Writing/Literacy Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 23, 1993. “Beyond Two Solitudes, After Survival: Postmodern Fiction in a Postcolonial Culture.” International Canadian Studies Conference, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, May 18, 1992. “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.) “The Bodies in the Text in Lives of Girls and Women: Del Jordan’s Reading.” Multiple Voices: Recent Canadian Fiction, IVth International Symposium, Centre D’Études Canadiennes, Université Libre De Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, November 30, 1989. “Margaret Laurence in Translation and The Fire-Dwellers.” Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, November 27, 1989. “Voice and Time in A Jest of God: Rachel Cameron’s Telling Moments.” Margaret Laurence Conference, Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, August 26, 1988. “The Language of ‘Waiting.’” (On Keath Fraser’s short stories). International Conference on the Short Story in English, Université de Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France, Feb. 5, 1988. “A World Divided, A World Divined: Two North American Fictions.” (On The World According to Garp and The Diviners.) Biennial ACSUS (Association for Canadian Studies in the United States) Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Oct. 10, 1987. “A Variety of Exile: Story Against Autobiography in Mavis Gallant’s Short Fiction.” International Conference on Narrative Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 2, 1987. “The Corruption of Memory: Mavis Gallant’s ‘An Autobiography.’” Éspaces de la nouvelle canadienne anglophone/Spaces of the English Canadian Short Story, the University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, March 14, 1986. “Process Against Product: A Real Opposition?” Inkshed Conference, Devon, Alberta, May 1985. “History and Memory in Mavis Gallant’s Short Stories: A Broken Dialogue.” ACQL Meetings, Learned Societies Conference, University of Guelph, June 5, 1984. “George Orwell’s 1984.” “An Evening in 1984,” Mount Royal College, Calgary, May 16, 1984. “Henry Kreisel’s Prairie: A Broken Globe.” Popular Culture Association Meetings, Toronto, April 1, 1984. “Referentiality and Reflexivity: Speculations on ‘Realist’ Fiction.” Colloquium given for English Department, University of British Columbia, January 13, 1982.

	Referees
	Keith L. Fulton		Chair, English Department University of Winnipeg 515 Portage Avenue Winnipeg MB R3B 2E9 t: 204-786-9294 e: k.fulton@uwinnipeg.ca

	Judith Kearns		Director, Centre for Academic Writing University of Winnipeg 515 Portage Avenue Winnipeg MB R3B 2E9 t: 204-786-9848 e: j.kearns@uwinnipeg.ca

	John Hofley		Sociology Department University of Winnipeg 515 Portage Avenue Winnipeg MB R3B 2E9 t: 204-889-8458 e: j.hofley@uwinnipeg.ca

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