Professor Coral Ann Howells

Contact details

Name:

Professor Coral Ann Howells

Qualifications:

FRSC

Position/Fellowship type:

Senior Research Fellow

Institute:

Institute of English Studies

Home institution:

Formerly University of Reading

Email address:

c.a.howells@reading.ac.uk

Website:

http://research.sas.ac.uk/ies/fellow/203/professor-coral-ann-howells/

Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

English Literature, Gender studies

Regions:

North America

Summary of research interests and expertise:

Specialised in teaching and writing about Canadian literature, particularly contemporary Canadian women writers, including Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro
 

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
01-Jan-2012	'Rewriting Tradition: Literature, History, and Changing Narratives in English Canada Since the 1970s' Chapters In Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts: Narratives of English Canada. Ed. Eva Darias Beautell. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012. pp. 19-42
01-Jan-2012	'Canadian? Literary? History? Writing Canadian Literary Histories' Chapters In Various Cultures, Variant Readings: Essays in Honour of Professor Jameela Begum. Vol. I. Ed. B. Hariharan et. al. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2012. pp. 30-44.
01-Jan-2010	“Literary History and National Narrative in the Cambridge History of Canadian Literature, the Cambridge History of Australian literature and A New Literary History of America.” With Eva-Marie Kroller. Anglistik 21.2 (2010): 115-132.
01-Jan-2010	“Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Travelling Ladies.” Chapters Janice Kulyk Keefer: Essays on Her Works. Ed. Deborah Saidero. Toronto: Guernica, 2010: 57-78. (Reprint of 1992 essay)
01-Jan-2009	“Switching the Plot: From Survival to the Cambridge History of Canadian Literature.” With Eva-Marie Kroller. Canada Exposed / Le Canada a découvert. Ed. Pierre Anctil, André Loiselle, Christopher Rolfe. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2009: pp. 45-60.
01-Jan-2009	“The 1940s and 1950s: Signs of Cultural Change.” Cambridge History of Canadian Literature. Ed. C.A.Howells and E-M. Kroller. Cambridge : CUP, 2009: pp.289-311.
01-Jan-2009	“Not Belonging, but Longing: Shifts of Emphasis in Contemporary Diasporic Writing in Canada.” Diasporic Subjectivity and Cultural Brokering in Contemporary Post-Colonial Literatures. Ed. Igor Maver. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009: pp.1-14.
01-Jan-2009	The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature Co-edited with Professor Eva-Marie Kroller of the University of British Columbia
01-Jan-2006	Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood ed.
	Oxford History of the Novel in English, Vol.12 'The Novel in English since 1950 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific'. Co-editor (with Gerry Turcotte and Paul Sharrad).

Relevant Events

Related events:

Date	Details
01-Jan-2012	'All That Below-the-Surface Stuff: Carol Shields's Conversational Modes' The Worlds of Carol Shields. University of Ottawa. 27-29 April, 2012
01-Jan-2012	Graduate Classes: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale Visiting Professor for graduate classes on Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. University of Udine, Italy. February 2012
01-Jan-2011	An Atwoodian Mosaic: Transformations of 'The Year of the Flood' International conference on the "Canadian Cultural Mosaic as Metaphor", University of Udine, Italy, April 2011
01-Jan-2011	Gender and the City International conference "The Glocal City in Canadian Literature", University; of Salamanca, June 2011