Professor of English; Associate Professor Emeritus; Graduate Faculty; Undergraduate Instructor (UTM)
Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5R 2M8
Areas of Interest
- Twentieth Century British and Irish
- American
- Canadian
- Short Story
- Travel and Nature Literature
Publications
"Tall Cows and Tapestries: A Perspective on the Canadian Canon," (forthcoming, UTQ); review in Letters in Canada, UTQ;
Advisory Editor, The Art of Short Fiction edited by Gary Geddes (1993),
"Introduction: The Novels of Robert Stone," in Robert Stone, A Bibliography 1960-1992 (1992);
"Letters in Canada (fiction)," UTQ (1984-1988);
Arthur Koestler (1984), book reviews.
Current Research
Book in progress on the works of Robert Stone; Short Story Theory; Canadian Nature Literature and anthology of short fiction on "madness, murder, and other extreme states"; special issue of UTQ, with Michel Lord, on the state of the Canadian short story.
Education
BA, University of Manitoba
MA, University of Toronto
PhD, University of Toronto