J.R. (Tim) Struthers, BA, MA, PhD (Western).
Associate Professor (1997).
E-mail: tstruthe@uoguelph.ca
Research Interests
Form and style, from the autobiographical essay to the serial novel but especially in the short story and the story cycle; Canadian literature, criticism, and bibliography; Southwestern Ontario literature and culture; Hugh Hood, Alice Munro, Clark Blaise.
Books
- New Contexts of Canadian Criticism. Co-edited with Ajay Heble and Donna Pennee. Peterborough: Broadview, 1997.
- Ed. On Coasts of Eternity: Jack Hodgins' Fictional Universe. Oolichan Books, 1996.
- How Stories Mean. Co-edited with John Metcalfe. Erin: The Porcupine's Quill, 1993.
- Canadian Classics: An Anthology of Short Stories. Co-edited with John Metcalfe. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1993.
- Ed. The Possibilities of Story, 2 vols. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1992.
- Ed. New Directions from Old. Red Kite P, 1991.
- Ed. The Montreal Story Tellers: Memoirs, Photographs, Critical Essays. Véhicule P, 1985.
- Ed. Before the Flood: Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Hugh Hood's Work in Progress. ECW P, 1979.
Selected recent articles
- "A Visionary Tradition." University of Toronto Quarterly 70 (Fall 2001).
- "Alice Munro." A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English. Greenwood P, 2001.
- "Once More to the Lake: Towards a Poetics of Receptivity." New Contexts of Canadian Criticism. Co-edited with Ajay Heble and J.R. (Tim) Struthers. Peterborough: Broadview, 1997.
- "Anthologies in English: Short Fiction", "Anthologies in English: General: 1982-1997", & "Anthologies in English: General." The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (2nd ed.). Toronto: Oxford UP, 1997.
- "Visionary Realism: Jack Hodgins, Spit Delaney's Island, and the Redemptive Imagination." On Coasts of Eternity: Jack Hodgins' Fictional Universe. Oolichan Books, 1996.
- "Hood, Hugh (John Blagdon)." Reference Guide to Short Fiction. St. James P, 1994.
Journals
- Guest co-editor, with Russell Morton Brown, of The Visionary Tradition in Canadian Writing. Special issue of University of Toronto Quarterly 70 (Fall 2001).
Professional activities
Publisher of Red Kite Press (founded 1984). Red Kite has published eight titles to date; most recently, Four Women (1999), a volume of poem sequences by Penn Kemp, Colleen Thibaudeau, Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy, and Marianne Micros.
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