Modern and postmodern (Canadian) literature; Native-Canadian Studies; gender studies; multicultural fiction and poetry; intercultural issues; popular culture.
Selected Publications:
World Enough and Time: Charles Bruce, A Critical Biography (1988); Landscape and Desire: Poems Selected and New (1992); Ed., A Very Large Soul: Margaret Laurence’s Letters to Canadian Writers (1995); A Deathful Ridge: A Novel of Everest (1997) A Far Time (2001); Ed. Every Grain of Sand: Canadian Perspectives on Environment and Ecology (2004); The Confluence (2007); Blazing Figures: a Life of Robert Markle (2009).
Awards:
SSHRC Sabbatical Leave Research Grant; Canada Council Creative Writing Grants (poetry and non-fiction, fiction).
