People
The Co-Chairs
Jason Nolan
Jason Nolan is an Assistant Professor at the School of Early Childhood Education at Ryerson University, where he teaches courses in critical thinking and children and technology. His areas of research interest include: online and virtual narrative identity, children and technology, teacher professionalization, and critical pedagogy. He is a fellow of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, serves on the board of the Journal of Dracula Studies, is editor-at-large with The Harrow, as well as co-editor-in-chief of the journal Learning Inquiry. He is presently finishing up a paper, co-authored with Yuka Kajihara, “Realizing Fiction: How the Virtual Landscapes of Dracula and Anne of Green Gables Changed the World,” for publication. E-mail: jason[at]jasonnolan[dot]net. Web: http://jasonnolan.net/.
Benjamin Lefebvre
Benjamin Lefebvre is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, where he is studying Montgomery’s cultural capital in her lifetime and beyond. He has published widely on L.M. Montgomery, most recently in Diversity and Change: Early Canadian Women Writers (2008) and Storm and Dissonance: L.M. Montgomery and Conflict (2008). In addition to editing Reassessments of L.M. Montgomery, a special double issue of Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse (2004), he is now preparing Montgomery’s unpublished final novel, The Blythes Are Quoted, for publication. E-mail: ben[at]roomofbensown[dot]net. Web: http://roomofbensown.net/.
Yuka Kajihara
Yuka Kajihara is Osborne Collection Assistant with the Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books of the Toronto Public Library. She consults widely on issues relating to Montgomery and Japanese culture, and has a particular interest in LMM’s life in Ontario. Yuka is presently working on a chapter about Canadian scholarly perception of LMM. E-mail: yuka[at]yukazine[dot]com. Web: http://yukazine.com/.
Advisory Board
Cecily Devereux
Cecily Devereux is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Alberta, specializing in English-Canadian women’s literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is the editor of a scholarly edition of Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables (Broadview Press, 2004) and the author of Growing a Race: Nellie L. McClung and the Fiction of Eugenic Feminism (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006).
Elizabeth R. Epperly
Elizabeth R. Epperly’s most recent books are Through Lover’s Lane: L.M. Montgomery’s Photography and Visual Imagination (2007) and Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery (2008). For years a Professor of English at the University of Prince Edward Island, she was the founder and first chair of UPEI’s L.M. Montgomery Institute. Web: http://www.lmmontgomery.ca/ and http://lmm.confederationcentre.com/.
Janice Fiamengo
Janice Fiamengo is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. She has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers, and has a monograph forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press on the strategies of rhetoric and self-presentation of six early Canadian women writers, reformers, and journalists. Web: http://www.english.uottawa.ca/faculty/fiamengo.html.
Trinna S. Frever
Trinna S. Frever is a Lecturer at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on intermedia theory, particularly the interconnections between orality, visuality, musicality, and print fiction. Stemming from her interest in North American women’s regionalist writing 1880-1940, she has presented and published numerous essays on L.M. Montgomery.
Irene Gammel
Irene Gammel is Canada Research Chair in Modern Literature and Culture and Professor of English at Ryerson University. Her most recent book, Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic, was published in 2008. Web: http://www.ryerson.ca/mlc/.
Carole Gerson
Carole Gerson is a professor in the English Department at Simon Fraser University. She has published extensively on Canadian literary history and early women writers and most recently co-edited volume 3 of History of the Book in Canada / Histoire du livre et de l’imprimé au Canada (2007).
Jennifer H. Litster
Jennifer Litster’s doctoral thesis (University of Edinburgh, 2001) examined “The Scottish Context of L.M. Montgomery.” She has written articles on Montgomery for the journal Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse and the volumes L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture and The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery. In 2006 she taught a special English course on L.M. Montgomery at the University of Prince Edward Island with Elizabeth Waterston. Jenny currently works for the Institute of Education at the University of London, UK.
Laura Robinson
Laura Robinson is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. She has published articles on L.M. Montgomery in Canadian Studies: An Introductory Reader, Canadian Literature, L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture, Children’s Voices in Atlantic Literature and Culture, and Storm and Dissonance: L.M. Montgomery and Conflict.
Kate Sutherland
Kate Sutherland is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto. She teaches and writes in the areas of tort law, feminist legal theory, law and sexuality, and law and literature. She is currently engaged in research on the various legal disputes in which L.M. Montgomery and her work became embroiled throughout her lifetime. Web: http://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty/Sutherland_Kate.html.
Hildi Froese Tiessen
Hildi Froese Tiessen, an Associate Professor of English and Peace Studies at Conrad Grebel University College, has collaborated with Paul Tiessen on a number of articles on L.M. Montgomery’s relationship with Ephraim Weber and on several conference presentations, including one on Montgomery’s unpublished correspondence with George Boyd MacMillan. Their scholarly edition of letters After Green Gables: L.M. Montgomery’s Letters to Ephraim Weber, 1916-1941 was published in 2006. Web: http://grebel.uwaterloo.ca/contact/hildi.shtml.
Research Associates
Mary Beth Cavert
Mary Beth Cavert, who holds a graduate degree in Educational Administration (University of Minnesota) and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education (St. Olaf College, Minnesota), recently retired after thirty-four years of teaching in public schools in Edina, Minnesota. She has presented papers at conferences hosted by the L.M. Montgomery Institute and has contributed chapters to The Lucy Maud Montgomery Album (1999) and The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery (2005). With Carolyn Strom Collins, she writes for and co-edits The Shining Scroll, the newsletter of the L.M. Montgomery Literary Society.
Carolyn Strom Collins
Carolyn Strom Collins received a B.A. in French (Samford University) and an M.A. in Library Science (University of Minnesota). She is co-author, with Christina Wyss Eriksson, of The Anne of Green Gables Treasury (1991), The Anne of Green Gables Treasury of Days (1994), and The Anne of Green Gables Christmas Treasury (1997). She has also contributed chapters to The Lucy Maud Montgomery Album (1999) and to Storm and Dissonance: L.M. Montgomery and Conflict (2008). In addition to founding the L.M. Montgomery Literary Society of Minnesota in 1991 and, with Mary Beth Cavert, co-editing its newsletter, The Shining Scroll, she is on staff at the L.M. Montgomery Heritage Museum in Park Corner, PEI.
