Joint PhD in Literary Studies / Theatre Studies in English

Graduate Faculty

 University of Guelph
Wilfrid Laurier University

Janice Kulyk Keefer, BA, MA (Toronto), D Phil (Sussex). 

Professor (1990).

E-mail: jkeefer@uoguelph.ca

Research Interests

Modernism, Canadian literature, and creative writing.

Books

  • Honey and Ashes: a story of family. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1998.

  • Marrying the Sea. Toronto: Brick, 1998.

  • Kyiv, of Two Lands: New Visions, an anthology of short fiction from Ukraine and Canada. Co-edited with Solemea Pavlychko. Coteau, 1998.

  • The Green Library. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1996.

  • Rest Harrow. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1992.

  • Traveling Ladies. Toronto: Random House, 1991.

  • Reading Mavis Gallant. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1989.

  • Constellations. Toronto: Random House, 1988.

  • Transfigurations. Ragweed P, 1987.

  • Under Eastern Eyes: a Critical Reading of Canadian Maritime Fiction. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1987.

  • The Paris-Napoli Express. Oberon, 1986.

  • White of the Lesser Angels. Ragweed P, 1986.

Selected recent articles

  • "Loved Labour Lost: Alistair MacLeod's Elegaic Ethos." Alistair MacLeod: Essays on His Works. Ed. Irene Guildford. Toronto: Guernica, 2001: 72-83.

  • "Personal and Public Records: Story and History in the Narration of Ethnicity." Tricks With a Glass: Writing Ethnicity in Canada. Ed. Rocio G. Davis and Rosalia Baena. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2000: 1-18.

  • "Home Comings/Border Crossings: Travels Through Imagined and Actual Worlds." Dangerous Crossings: Papers on Transgression in Literature and Culture. Ed. Monica Loeb and Gerald Porter. Uppsala: Swedish Science Press, 1999: 15-30.

  • "'The Sacredness of Bridges': Writing Immigrant Experience." Literary Pluralities. Ed. Christl Verduyn. Peterborough: Broadview Press & Journal of Canadian Studies, 1998: 97-110.

  • "From Dialogue to Polylogue: Canadian Transcultural Writing During the Deluge." Difference and Community: Canadian and European Cultural Perspectives. Ed. Peter Easingwood, Konrad Gross and Lynette Hunter. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 1996: 59-70.

  • "For and Against Multiculturalism: Could the Demidenko Scandal Have Happened in Canada?" The Sydney Papers 8.3 (Winter 1996): 73-82.

Professional activities

Member, Advisory Board, House of Anansi Press (since 1990); Member, Trillium Prize Jury (1997-8); Member, Rogers/Writers' Trust Communication Award, Fiction, 2000; Member Marian Engel Award Jury, 2001-2.

Awards

Winner of the 1999 Marion Engel Award, the CAA Award for Poetry, the CBC Radio Literary Competition, and the National Magazine Award.
The Green Library nominated for the Governor General's Award (1996).
Winner of the National Magazine Award Foundation's First Prize, Poetry. (1990).
Travelling Ladies shortlisted for Commonwealth Writers' Prize (1991).
Under Eastern Eyes nominated for the 1987 Governor General's Award (non-fiction category).
Winner of the Governor General's Gold Medal in English (1974).