Wendy Robbins
BA (Bishop’s), MA, PhD (Queen’s)
Wendy Robbins became the first woman to be promoted to full professor of English at UNB, and is a co-founder of Women’s Studies. She has developed numerous courses on women’s writing and feminist approaches to literature, winning the Allan P. Stuart Award for excellence in teaching. She publishes widely on Canadian and Commonwealth literature and is a past president of the Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (CACLALS). Her editorial work includes the pioneering “Women Writers of the Commonwealth” special issue of World Literature Written in English (University of Texas, 1978). In the 1980s, she was managing editor of Studies in Canadian Literature, turning it into one of the first scholarly journals in Canada to accept electronic manuscripts. After serving in Ottawa as Director of Research at the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, she co-founded PAR-L, one of the world’s first feminist online discussion lists. Dr. Robbins has served as Vice-President, Women’s and Equity Issues, of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences; Chair of the Women’s Committee of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT); and Member of the Expert Panel on Women in University Research at the Council of Canadian Academies. Her current literary research focuses on campus fiction, especially representations of professors in Canadian literature, and on academic auto/biography. Two recent online publications are “Critiquing Canada’s Research Culture: Social, Cultural, and Political Restraints on Women’s University Careers,” in Forum on Public Policy Online, and (with Jessie Sagawa) “Resister and Rebel Storytellers: Slave Narratives and Neo-Slave Narratives by and/or about Women Connected to Canada,” in Postcolonial Text, 6.4 (2011).
Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit and Co-ordinator of Women's Studies Interdisciplinary Program
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Office: Carleton Hall 329 Phone: (506) 458-7411
