Graduate academic calendar 2012 - 2013 - Trent University

GRADUATE PROGRAMS English Literature
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M.A. Program in English Literature (Public Texts)
Telephone: 705-748-1011, ext. 7733
Fax: 705-748-1823
E-mail: publictexts@trentu.ca
Web: www.trentu.ca/englishma
The constantly evolving material forms of texts and their modes of circulation shape publics into being,
and are shaped by publics in turn. In the M.A. in English Literature at Trent University, we investigate
the history of the Public Text, map its present and imagine its futures. Our students will develop new
ways of looking at the production of texts, their circulation, and the relationship between texts and
their publics, exploring issues which are emerging as central to literary research in the twenty-first
century.
A key element of this program is the combination of theory and practice. Thus in the Public
Texts Colloquium, students will be brought together with faculty, visiting scholars and experts
(e.g., archivists, librarians, printers, publishers, editors, booksellers, book designers) for an intensive
exploration of relevant historical, theoretical and practical issues. In the same spirit, students will be
able to customize their studies by choosing one of three different paths to the degree: some may wish
to embark on a concentrated study of some aspect of the subject by writing a thesis; others may wish
to combine additional courses with a major research paper; and still others may elect to combine their
academic studies with the practical experience of an internship. This flexibility assures that, in addition
to being prepared for further studies at the Ph.D. level in English literature and in allied areas such as
Print Culture or the History of the Book, our graduates will develop professional skills applicable to
fields such as publishing, editing, communications, journalism, information science, or archival work.
Graduate Program Director
M. Epp, B.A. (Saskatchewan), M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (Alberta)
Faculty and Research Areas
English
S. J. Bailey, B.A. (Queen’s), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), 19th century literature, especially poetry; travel
writing and literature of the environment; critical theory; gender studies.
R. Bode, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), 19th and early 20th century British and American; novel;
drama; young adult fiction; ecocriticism; 19th century American women writers; George Eliot;
Wharton; Conrad; Shakespeare.
L. Clark, B.A., M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Virginia), Romantic and 18th-C. philosophy and literature;
Shaftesbury, Rousseau, Smith, Burke; Jane Austen; Joseph Conrad; Milton; the romantic sublime;
tragedy and comedy.
L. W. Conolly, (Emeritus), B.A. (Wales), M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Wales), F.R.S.C., English-Canadian
drama; Canadian theatre history; censorship; 18th, 19th and 20th century British theatre and
drama, especially Shaw.
R. J. Dellamora, (Emeritus), A.B. (Dartmouth College), B.A. (Cambridge), M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale),
period formation in relation to celebrity, publicity, and the textual creation of minority public
cultures in England, 1880-1945.
M. C. Eddy, B.A., M.A. (Western Ontario), Ph.D. (Toronto), Modern and contemporary American
fiction; African-American fiction; 19th century American women poets; black literary and critical
theory; theories of subjectivity and the body; Faulkner; Morrison.
M. Epp, B.A. (Saskatchewan), M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (Alberta), 19th and 20th century American
literature; the relationship between print culture and performance; literary theory; literary humour;
international modernism.
J. Findon, B.A. (British Columbia), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), Middle English literature; Middle Irish
and Middle Welsh literature; women in medieval literature; myth and folklore; children’s literature;
creative writing.
H. M. Hodges, B.A. (Queen’s), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), postcolonial literatures of Africa, South Asia
and the West Indies; contemporary British cultures and literatures; oral literatures of Africa and the
West Indies.