Last week I received in the mail the latest issues of several journals I subscribe to: English Studies in Canada 32.4 (December 2006), Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne 32.2 (2007); Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 33.2 (Summer 2008); and Canadian Journal of Film Studies / Revue canadienne d’études cinématographiques 17.1 (Spring 2008). Each issue contains timely and provocative material: in ESC, a reader’s forum on “Popular Culture and the Culture of Research Funding,” edited by Julie Rak; in SCL/ELC, a special issue on “Poetics and Public Culture in Canada,” edited by Diana Brydon, Manina Jones, Jessica Schagerl, and Kristen Warder; in ChLAQ, a forum on J.K. Rowling’s outing of Dumbledore, edited by Kenneth Kidd; and in CJFS, a special issue on film and disability, edited by Nicole Markotic.

Meanwhile, I have recently finished setting up a new website for the Early Canadian Literature Society, which was founded last year. There’s not much up yet, but it will grow.

I did another interview for CBC Radio 1 last week—on Anne of Green Gables again, but this time in English—and have been told it will air tomorrow morning between 5:45 and 6:00 A.M. I probably won’t be awake to hear it, but if anyone is awake at that hour go to http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ and click on “Atlantic” under the CBC Radio One banner.

I will be interviewed by Line Boily on her radio show Les arts et les autres on Monday, 2 June 2008, at 1:05 EST, on Radio-Canada 1 (French-language CBC). The topic is Anne of Green Gables and I will be commenting on its origins, its continued international popularity in the centenary year, and its success in adaptations such as movies, musicals, and tourist sites in Ontario and Prince Edward Island. Since I am presently in Vancouver attending Congress, I will be speaking to her from Studio C at CBC Vancouver.

Les arts et les autres is broadcast across Ontario; to find your local frequency, click here. You can also listen to it live through the Radio-Canada website. On the homepage for Ontario, click on “Écoutez en direct—Première chaine” and choose your nearest location.

Also, today I am participating at a one-day symposium on Anne of Green Gables at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia. In addition to co-chairing an ACCUTE panel on “Anne of Green Gables: New Directions at 100,” I will be one of seven participants in a roundtable called “Anne of Green Gables: A Literary Icon at 100: Canadian Scholars and Critics Reflect on Anne of Green Gables in the Centenary Year,” chaired by Irene Gammel:

This round table of leading Canadian critics and scholars takes stock of Canada’s most famous literary icon, L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, at its centenary anniversary. What is behind the popularity of the novel? What is its global value and status? What is its future in Canada and the world? We also invite the public to submit questions to our panel of experts via email: Anne100@mlc.ryerson.ca.

My five-minute paper is titled “Confessions of a Male Montgomery Scholar” and will include a discussion of my Green Gables toenail clippers. I am also presenting a paper as part of the ACCUTE conference on the fiction of Joy Kogawa.

Je serai l’invité de Line Boily à l’émission de radio Les arts et les autres ce lundi, 2 juin 2008, à 13h05 (heure normale de l’est), à Radio-Canada (première chaine). L’entrevue porte sur le roman Anne… La Maison aux pignons verts : ses origines, sa popularité internationale continue pendant l’année de son centième anniversaire, et son succès dans les médias connexes, telles que le petit écran, la comédie musicale, et le site touristique en Ontario et à l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard. Étant donné que je suis présentement à Vancouver pour assister au Congrès des sciences humaines, je lui parlerai du Studio C à Radio-Canada Vancouver.

L’émission est diffusée à travers l’Ontario; vous trouverez votre fréquence locale ici. Vous pouvez également écouter à l’émission au site web de Radio-Canada. Une fois rendus à la page pour l’Ontario, choisissez la rubrique « Écoutez en direct » ainsi que votre région.