Scholarship
Books
Mary Shellev’s Frankenstein: The 1818 Text. Calgary: Broadview Literary Press, 1994. (With D.L. Macdonald); second edition 1999. Third edition 2012.
Sun Peaks: An Evolution of Dreams. Peaks Media, 2011. An illustrated history of fifty years of the resort on Tod Mountain, contracted by the Sun Peaks Resort Corporation. 20,000 words, 110 photos sourced and interpreted.
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis, a Scholarly Edition (1796). Calgary: Broadview Literary Press, 2004. (With D.L. Macdonald)
Mary Wollstonecraft’s Two Vindications: A Scholarly Edition. Calgary: Broadview Literary Press, 1997. (With D.L. Macdonald)
The Canadian Handbook for Writers Workbook. Toronto: Harcourt Brace, 1995.
The Canadian Handbook for Writers. Toronto: Harcourt Brace, 1995.
The Collected Fiction of John Polidori. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. (With D.L. Macdonald)
The Collected Poems of Malcolm Lowry. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1992.
Editorial Work
Member, Scientific Board, Annales Scientia Politica, 2014-.
Chair, National Scholarly Board of the Canadian Poetry Database. CDrom publication, Chadwyck-Healey, UK.
Editor, Studies in Canadian Literature/Etudes en litterature canadienne (refereed journal, 1989-1996).
Fitch, Sheree. In This House are Many Women. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 1993. Editor for the press.
Refereed Publications
“Beyond the Brochure: Deep Mapping Sun Peaks,” book chapter in Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry. Eds. MacLennan, D, Garrett-Petts, W, Druxbury, N. (Routledge). FORTHCOMING, Spring 2014.
“Canadian Post-Secondary Players in India: Obstacles, Issues, Opportunities.” (with PhD candidate Iain Macpherson). Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Research Analysis Reports (25 Nov 2008). 22 pages. http://www.asiapacific.ca/en/research/canadian-post-secondary-players-india-obstacles-issues-opportunities
“A Legacy of Canadian Cultural Tradition and the Small Press: The Case of Talonbooks.” Studies in Canadian Literature/Etudes en litterature canadienne 25.1 (2000): 131-49.
“Canadian Literature: The Classroom Conference.” In Myth and Milieu: Atlantic Literature and Culture 1918-1939. (Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1993): 198-99.
“The Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts: Textual Bibliography in Canada, or Roughing It in the Bush.” American Review of Canadian Studies 23.3 (1993): 439-52.
“He lived, nightly.” Malcolm Lowrv Review 31/32 (1993): 41-44.
“David Adams Richard’s Blood Ties: Essentially Women.” Room of One’s Own 14.4 (1991):23-39.
“Unearthing Malcolm Lowry’s Two Unknown Volumes of Poetry.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 29.1 (1991): 7-22.
“Face to Face: A Conversation with David Adams Richards.” Matrix 32 (1990): 38-40.
“David Adams Richards: ‘He Must Be a Social Realist Regionalist’.” Studies in Canadian Literature/Etude en litterature canadienne 15.1 (1990): 154-70.
“Three New Poems by Malcolm Lowry, with a Textual Introduction.” Canadian Literature 121 (1989): 55-58.
“Issues in Editing Malcolm Lowry’s Poems.” The Malcolm Lowry Review 23/24 (1988): 2-39.
“Confabulations: Malcolm Lowry and Sharon Thesen.” The Malcolm Lowry Review 21/22 (1988): 121-29.
Reviews
“New Directions.” Canadian Literature 136 (1993): 161-63.
“Female Mosaic.” Canadian Literature 130 (1991): 162-64.
“Underlying Currents: David Adams Richards’ Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace.” Matrix 34 (1991): 75-76.
“The Lowry/Noxon Letters.” University of Toronto Quarterly 59.2 (1989): 156-57.
“Prairie Poetics: Dennis Cooley’s The Vernacular Muse.” Prairie Forum 14.1 (1989): 125-28.
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
Papers
“The Potential of Cultural Mapping for Eduction.” New Media and Education of Aesthetics and Culture, at Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Weimar, Germany. 14-15 November 2014.
Keynote, “Mapping the Spirit of Place: Sun Peaks.” Mapping Culture: Communities, Sites and Stories, Coimbra, Portugal, 28-30 May 2014.
Keynote, “The Mountain and the Map: A Tale of Academic Adventure, with an Example.” The Finnish Association of Tourism and Hospitality Research Annual Symposium, Helsinki, Finland. 13-14 March 2014.
“Representing the Multiplicity of Place; or Deep Contexts Require Deep Maps, with an Example,” in Digital Worlds: Mapping Local Cultures and Telling Local Stories panel, at The International Social Science Council, Montreal, 13 to 15 October 2013. Paper 13 October 2013.
“Seven Critical Factors in the Resident Experience at Mountain Resorts.” Canadian Mountain Studies Initiative, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 11-14 December 2012.
“Beyond the Brochure: Mapping and the Representation of Culture.” International Conference Network for Tourism Research and Education, held at Sun Peaks Mountain Resort, 28-30 November 2012.
“Space, Place, and Community: The Role of the Local in the Mountain Resort Experience.” International Geographical Union Symposium. Trier, Germany. 22-25 August 2012.
“A Fine Balance: Residents and the Guest Experience at Sun Peaks Mountain Resort.” Canada West Ski Areas Association 2012 Spring Conference. Kelowna, British Columbia. 2 May 2012.
“Continental ‘Drift’”: Autonomy. Government, and Governance in Canadian Duals, from Coast to Coast to Coast.” British Society for Research into Higher Education, Wales, UK. 15 December 2010.
“A New ‘Chapter’: A Monolithic Bookseller and the Culture of Canadian Small Presses.” British Association of Canadian Studies. Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland. April 2002. ACCEPTED BUT I DECLINED TO ATTEND.
“A Literary Dinner: The Presentation of Food in Recent Canadian Fiction.” Institute of Commonwealth Studies. London, England. 17 May 2001
“Regenerating Identity and Community: Writing the Survivor of the Second World War.” 8th Biennial Jerusalem Conference in Canadian Studies of the Israel Association for Canadian Studies. Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 26 June 2000. ACCEPTED BUT I DECLINED TO ATTEND.
“Parallel Galleries and Small Presses: Challenges to Building a Cultural Nation in Canada in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century.” British Association for Canadian Studies. University of Edinburgh. 13 April 2000
“Thirty Years of Talonbooks: Or, On Reading the Life and Times of a BC Literary Press.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC. 20 July 1998
“Shifting the Puzzle to Make the Pieces Fit: Addressing Resistance in the University.” Freshman Year Experience National Conference. Costa Mesa, California. 20 January 1997
“Problem-based Learning: Writing Across the Curriculum.” NBTA Teachers of English and Language Arts Council. Moncton, NB. 17 June 1996
“Vital Marginalism: The Texts and Contexts of Maritime Literature.” Atlantic Canada Faculty Institute, Canadian-American Centre, University of Maine. Fredericton, NB. 5 June 1996
“Issues in Canadian Literature.” Canadian Studies Program, University of Maine at Orono. 13 April 1995
“Versioning Frankenstein.” Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, University of San Francisco. 4 November 1994. (With D.L. Macdonald)
Invited Speaker. “Establishing a Learned Journal.” Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario. 6 November 1992
“A Difficult Crossing: Voyages of Ethnicity in Canadian Literature.” Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Conference. Kingston, Jamaica. 17 August 1992
“WASP Multiculturalism: Ethnic Protest in the Work of Joy Kogawa and George Ryga.” Midwestern Modem Language Association, Chicago, Illinois. 14 November 1991
“Women in Learned Journals.” Plenary Session, Canadian Association of Learned Journals, Learned Societies Meeting, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. 30 May 1991
“Toward a Generic Strategy: Lowry’s Fictive Discourses.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. 22 February 1991
“Problems in Editing the Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry.” International Lowry Symposium, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. 14 May 1987
Chair and/or Panelist
Program Chair, Creativity and Innovation, SMART2000, Calgary. 14 November 2000
Program Chair, Learned Societies Meeting, Carleton University. Canadian Association of Learned Journals, June 1993
Program Chair, Learned Societies Meeting, UPEI, Canadian Association of Learned Journals, May 1992
Panelist and Chair, “The Editor and the University: The UNB Model.” Canadian Association of Learned Journals, Learned Societies Meeting, UPEI, Charlottetown, PEI. 31 May 1992
Chair, “History, Identity and Perspective.” Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Conference, Learned Societies Meeting. UPEI, Charlottetown, PEI. 26 May 1992
Chair, “Regionalism-Atlantic Canada.” Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures,
Learned Societies Meeting 1992. UPEI Charlottetown. PEI. 26 May 1992
Panelist and Chair, “Overview Panel.” “Literature and Culture Between the Wars: 1918-1939,” Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, 6 October 1991
Chair, “Women in the Universities.” Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures, Learned Societies Meeting, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. 29 May 1991