Fenwick, Gillian

Gillian Fenwick
Associate Professor of English, Fellow of Trinity College; Graduate Faculty; Undergraduate Faculty 
Office Phone: 416-978-1687
Office Location: Trinity College, Angel's Roost, 26
gillian.fenwick@utoronto.ca
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Office Hours and/or Leave Status: On leave July - December 2012

Teaching
Undergraduate
Department of English, and Humanities 199, 299 and 399 courses:

• Nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century British fiction, prose and poetry.
• Travel literature.
• Naturalist fiction.
• Literary prizes.
• Literature and the internet.
• Literature and film.

Graduate
Department of English and Graduate Collaborative Program in Book History and Print Culture:

• Bibliography.
•  Applied bibliography.
•  Research methods.
•  History of the book, editorial studies, textual studies.
•  Biographical studies.
•  Marketing printed materials.
•  Men and women of letters.
•  George Orwell.
•  Thomas Hardy.

I am also interested in pedagogy, teaching development and professional skills.

Research Interests

• Nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century men and women of letters.
• Publishers and publishing history.

I am just finishing the second of two books on the travel writer Jan Morris, Jan Morris A Bibliographical Life. I am currently writing a new bibliography text book, A Guide to Research Methods for Graduate Students in English, and a biography of the writer Jack Common. Meanwhile I continue to collect material for a publishing history of the Dictionary of National Biography 1885-1996.

Publications

Books
The Contributors’ Index to the Dictionary of National Biography 1885-1901 (1989).

Leslie Stephen’s Life in Letters (1993).

Women and the Dictionary of National Biography (1994).

George Orwell A Bibliography (1998).

Understanding Tim Parks (2003).

Traveling Genius: The Writing Life of Jan Morris (2008).

Jan Morris: A Bibliographical Study (in the press).