Gwendolyn Davies
BA (Dalhousie-King's), Educ. Certif. (Toronto), MA (Toronto), PhD (York), DCL (U. of King's College), FRSC
Gwen Davies' main research and supervisory areas are pre-1950 Canadian literature, Atlantic literature (1628 to current), and the History of the Book in Canada. She has authored, edited, or co-edited five books, including a scholarly edition of Thomas McCulloch's The Stepsure Letters, Studies in Maritime Literary History, and, with Carole Gerson, Canadian Poetry: From the Beginnings Through the First World War. Over her career, she has served on various national funding and professional committees, including being President of the Canadian Association of Chairs of English, President of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, and a member of the Executives of both Canadian and Northeastern U.S. Associations for Graduate Studies. From 2000-2008, she was Associate Vice President of Research and Dean of Graduate Studies at UNB. She is editing a critical edition of James DeMille's A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder for 2010-11 publication; is working on four 1890s reform women writers from the Maritimes; and is planning a book on Loyalist women as agents of cultural transfer in the late 1800s. She was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada in 2004 and since 2008 has been Professor and Dean Emerita at UNB. She currently sits on the Vanier CGS Program Selection Board, is on the Advisory Board of the W.A. Deacon Literary Foundation, and is General Editor of Formac's Maritime Fiction Reprint Series. She is a member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
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