Brown, Russell
Email: russell.brown@utoronto.ca
Teaching and Research Interests
Canadian literature; American fiction; the Bible and Literature.
Degrees
B.A. (University St. Thomas), M.A., Ph.D. (SUNY, Binghamton)
Publications
Borderlines and Borderlands in English Canada: The Written Line (Orono, Maine: University of Maine/The Borderlands Project, 1981).
Co-ed.,
The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 2011.
Co-ed.,
The Penguin Book of English-Canadian Short Fiction (Toronto: Pearson / Penguin: 2005).
Co-ed.,
An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English (Toronto: Oxford Univ. Press, 2010).
Ed.,
The Collected Poems of Al Purdy (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1985).
“The Northrop Frye Effect.” In
Northrop Frye’s Canadian Literary Criticism and Its Influence. University of Toronto Press, 2009: 279-302.
“Open Secrets? Alice Munro and the Mystery Story.”
Open Letter 11.9/12.1 (Fall/Winter 2003-04): 185-209.
"‘The Seriousness of Things beyond Your Understanding’" [on the visionary tradition in English-Canadian writing],
University of Toronto Quarterly 70.4 (Fall 2001).
"The Practice and Theory of Canadian Thematic Criticism: A Reconsideration,"
University of Toronto Quarterly (Spring 2001).
Current Research
Canadian postmodernism, with special attention to the place of Marshall McLuhan and Robert Kroetsch; more generally: prairie fiction.
Russell Brown 
