Wendy Robbins
BA (Bishop’s), MA, PhD (Queen’s)
Wendy Robbins is a co-founder of Women’s Studies at UNB. 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. In 2005, Dr. Robbins was elected Chair of the Women’s Committee of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT). Her annual “Ivory Towers: Feminist and Equity Audits” is published online by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Her current literary research focuses on campus fiction, especially representations of professors in Canadian literature. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
Contact Information:
Office: Carleton Hall 329
Phone: (506) 458-7411
