Atwood Margaret - Margaret Atwood: the open eye

Margaret Atwood: The Open Eye

Edited by

John Moss and Tobi Kozakewich

REAPPRAISALS: CANADIAN WRITERS
Gerald Lynch, General Editor

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Margaret Atwood : the open eye / edited by John Moss & Tobi Kozakewich.

(Reappraisals, Canadian writers, ISSN 1189-6787; 30)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7766-0613-2
ISBN-10: 0-7766-0613-1

1. Atwood, Margaret, 1939Criticism and interpretation. I. Moss, John, 1940-II. Kozakewich, Tobi, 1975- III. Series.

PS8501.T86Z732 2006 C818.5409 C2006-902920-2

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JULIA BREITBACH , MA, studied English and American Literature, German Literature, and Art and Media Studies at the University of Constance and Yale University. During her studies she received grants from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Study Foundation) and the German Academic Exchange Service. She is now a PhD student in North American Literature at the University of Constance with a special interest in the intersections between literature and photography.

PAMELA S. BROMBERG is Professor of English at Simmons College in Boston. She has published numerous articles on womens writing, narrative, and Romanticism, including Learning to Listen: Teaching about the Talk of Miss Bates, Buchi Emecheta: Dislocation and Discovery, and Margaret Drabbles The Radiant Way: Feminist Metafiction. Her research interests include feminist literary theory, film, and popular culture.

DIANA BRYDON is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. She has published extensively, including books on Timothy Findley and Christina Stead, and has edited Postcolonialism: Critical concepts in literary and cultural studies and Shakespeare in Canada: a world elsewhere? with Irena R. Makaryk. Her current research focuses on globalization and autonomy and the ends of post-colonialism.

WANDA CAMPBELL has a masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of Windsor, and a PhD in Canadian Literature from the University of Western Ontario. She teaches Creative Writing and Womens Literature at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. She has edited several books, including Hidden Rooms: Early Canadian Women Poets and most recently the Canadian edition of Literature: A Pocket Anthology for Penguin. Her academic articles have appeared in the Reappraisals Series and in journals such as Mosaic, Canadian Poetry, Studies in Canadian Literature, Essays in Canadian Writing, Canadian Literature, and Wascana Review. She has also published two collections of poetrySky Fishing and Haw-[Thorn]and her poems and stories have appeared in creative journals across Canada.

SALLY CHIVERS is Assistant Professor of Canadian Studies and English at Trent University. She has published extensively on womens literature, disability, and autobiographyfor example, in From Old Woman to Older Women: Contemporary Culture and Womens Narratives. Her research interests include women and aging, gender studies, and the body.

FRANK DAVEY is the Carl F. Klinck Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Western Ontario. He is the first to hold this chair. Frank Daveys writing makes a humorous and ironic comment on the ambiguous play of signs in contemporary culture, on the popular stories that lie behind them, and on the struggles between different groups in societyracial, regional, gender-based, ethnic, economicthat drive this play. He is the author of Margaret Atwood: A Feminist Poetics (1984), Popular Narratives (1991), and Cultural Mischief: A Practical Guide to Multiculturalism (1996). He is the editor of Talons New Canadian Criticism Series and numerous books of poetry.

SANDRA DJWA is Professor of English in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests include national, modern, and postcolonial literatures, literary and institutional history, biography, poetry, textual studies and editing, as well as the writers E.J. Pratt, F.R. Scott, Roy Daniells, Margaret Atwood, and P.K. Page. She is the author of E.J. Pratt: The Evolutionary Vision and a biography of F.R. Scott, The Politics of the Imagination (1987). She has edited Carl Klincks memoirs, Giving Canadaa Literary History: A Memoir (1991). Her biography of Roy Daniells, entitled Professing English, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2002. She is presently working on a biography of P.K. Page.

REGINA M. EDMONDS , a clinical psychologist, is Associate Professor of Psychology at Assumption College. Her specialty areas include family systems theory, trauma based disorders, eating disorders and the qualities that characterize successful mother-daughter relationships. She is currently the Director of Assumptions Womens Studies Program, working to provide a transnational emphasis to that program.

CHRISTINE EVAIN is a French lecturer at the cole Centrale de Nantes. She is currently completing her dissertation on Margaret Atwood. Her research interests focus on Canadian and contemporary literature, including that by John Grisham, Alice Munro, and Kazuo Ishiguro.

JANICE FIAMENGO is Associate Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. She has published numerous articles on Canadian literature and is currently completing a monograph on the strategies of rhetoric and self-presentation of early Canadian women journalists, essayists, and activists. She is also editing an anthology of essays on animals in Canadian literature and a collection of Sara Jeannette Duncans newspaper writing.

NATHALIE FOY is an instructor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto, where she recently completed her PhD. Her thesis examines the undermining of vision in Canadian fiction. Her work today forms part of her next project, on the representation of mothering in Canadian fiction.

JULIE GODIN is in the last year of her PhD at the University of Ottawa. Her work focuses on American Literature, specifically African-American literature of the twentieth century. She is currently writing her thesis Uptown, Downbeat: Contestations of Space, Mobility and Masculine Self-Fashioning in African American Urban Discourse. Her interests include slave narratives, representations of criminality and marginality, and dissident subjectivities in American and Canadian texts.