Christl Verduyn
BA (Trent), MA & PhD (Ottawa)
Christl Verduyn is Professor in the Department of English and the Canadian Studies Program at Mount Allison University. Her research and teaching interests include Canadian and Québécois literatures; women's writing and criticism; multiculturalism and minority writing; life writing and Canadian studies. She has published books, articles, special issues of journals and reviews in these areas, and has been an active participant in and organizer of conferences in them as well. Her research has been generously supported over the years by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities, and has received a number of awards and recognitions, including the Gabrielle Book Prize for Lifelines: Marian Engel's Writing (1995) and the Association for Asian American Studies Honourable Mention for Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography (2008, with E. Ty). She is currently co-editing collections in Canadian studies and Canadian literature and serving as Editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies (2008-2011). Before joining the faculty at Mount Allison, Christl Verduyn taught at Wilfrid Laurier University (2000-2006), where she chaired the Canadian Studies Program, and at Trent University (1980-2000), where she was Chair of Women's Studies (1987-90) and Chair of Canadian Studies (1993-99). She was President of the national Association for Canadian Studies (2000-2002) and in 2006 she received the Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and served as President of its Academy of Arts and Humanities from 2007-2009.
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