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Bruce Greenfield
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Associate Professor of English, Undergraduate Advisor Bruce.Greenfield@Dal.ca |
Teaching and Research Areas:
Colonial and nineteenth-century American literature and culture; narrative theory; travel writing; autobiography; history of the book.
Selected Publications:
Narrating Discovery: The Romantic Explorer in American Literature, 1790-1845 (Columbia UP, 1992).
"Can Fur Traders Have Feelings? Sentiment in Samuel Hearne´s Journey to the Northern Ocean (1795)." In Studies in Canadian Literature 37.2 (2012): forthcoming.
"Now Reader Read": The Literary Ambitions of Henry Kelsey, Hudson´s Bay Company Clerk." In Early American Literature, 47.1 (2012): 31-57.
"Writing in the Northwest: Narratives, Journals, Letters, 1700-1870." In The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature. Eva-Marie Kroller and Coral Ann Howells, eds. New York: Cambridge University Press,
2009: 67-86.
"Exploration and Discovery." In American History through Literature, 1820-1870. Edited by Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert Sattelmeyer. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006: 389-395.
"The West/California: the Site of the Future." Chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing. Edited by Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002: 207-222.
“Creating the Distance of Print: the Memoir of Peter Pond, Fur Trader.” In Early American Literature 37.3 (2002): 415-438.
“The Mi'kmaq Heroglyphic Prayer Book: Writing and Christianity in Maritime Canada, 1675-1921.” In The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492 to 1800. Ed. Edward Gray and Norman Fiering. New York and Oxford: Berghan Books, 2000: 189-211.
Awards:
Mellon Fellow, American Philosophical Society (1994); Beinecke Library Fellow (1990); American Antiquarian Society/Society for 18th-Century Studies Fellow (1990); John Carter Brown Library Fellow (1989); SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (1978-1983).
Current Research:
Colonial & nineteenth-century travel writing in America; History of the Book; autobiography.