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The Symposium gratefully acknowledges the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the University of Ottawa, its Faculty of Arts
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Welcome to the online home of the Canadian Literature Symposium, an annual event hosted by the Department of English at the University of Ottawa. Announcing the 2012 Canadian Literature Symposium The Worlds of Carol Shields April 27-29 2012 Essayist and fiction writer, playwright and poet, CAROL SHIELDS had an extraordinary literary career, winning, among other prizes, the American Book Critics’ Circle Award, the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, the Governor General’s award for Fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize. The University of Ottawa granted her an MA (1975) and conferred on her the first of her honorary degrees (1995). Proposals are invited for this major conference. All topics are welcome, biographical, literary, and especially new methodologies of reading her many writings. Send electronic or paper proposals by September 15, 2011 to David Staines (dstaines@uottawa.ca) Follow us on Twitter @CanLitSymposium Since 1972, the symposium has brought together thousands of Canadian and international scholars for the purpose of exploring particular topics relevant to the Canadian literatures. In conjunction with the University of Ottawa Press, the symposium has facilitated the publication of over thirty books of criticism, beginning in 1973 with The Grove Symposium, the first volume in the press's highly respected Reappraisals: Canadian Writers series. Over the years, the Canadian Literature Symposium has shed new light on the work of such writers as Archibald Lampman, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Leacock, Margaret Laurence, and Al Purdy, and addressed such topics as Canadian-American literary relations, translation, the Canadian short story, Canadian modernism, children's literature, and Canadian postcolonial theory. Together, the Symposium and the Reappraisals book series have provided an invaluable opportunity for readers and researchers to contribute to an ongoing re-examination of the history and theory of Canadian literary practice. Archival materials related to our three previous symposia, Rediscovering Early Canadian Literature (2010), Double-Takes: Intersections Between Canadian Literature and Film (2009) and Re: Reading the Postmodern (2008), can be found here. Just released: RE: Reading the Postmodern: Canadian Literature and Criticism after Modernism, edited by Robert David Stacey. The latest book in the Reappraisals series is now available from the University of Ottawa Press. Thank you for visiting our site. Check back often for updates. |