Launch of websites on Editing Modernism and Media History

Announcing the launch of two research websites: Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC), directed by Dean Irvine (Associate Professor of English at Dalhousie University), and Media History in Canada, created by Duncan Koerber (Ph.D. candidate in Communication and Culture, York University/Ryerson University).

From Dean Irvine:

EMiC Online networks our project’s 32 participants and 33 partners from regions across Canada and from France, England, and the United States; it also seeks to establish new connections with other interested scholars, institutions, and publishers.  Our participants and partners are editing and publishing new print and digital editions of modernist Canadian texts that have either fallen out of print or exist only in university rare-book rooms and archives.  These texts from the early to mid-twentieth century include not only poetry, fiction, and drama but also autobiography, correspondence, and non-fictional prose.

From Duncan Koerber:

I created this bibliographic database to help students and researchers find sources on Canadian media history. As the recent media history conferences at Ryerson and Brock have revealed, we are still trying to come to grips with what media history in this country is all about and what resources exist (often these sources exist in many different disciplines and are not necessarily identified as, or predominantly about, media history).

Back from Congress

I returned late last night from Congress in Vancouver, where I had a great time. Waiting for me was the latest issue of Children’s Literature, where I discovered a listing of my doctoral dissertation in their “Dissertations of Note” column! This was a pleasant surprise, given that the column tends to focus primarily on dissertations from American universities. The column—and the whole issue for that matter—is available through ProjectMuse to subscribing libraries.

I also received an e-mail today from the L.M. Montgomery Research Centre at the University of Guelph (not to be confused with the L.M. Montgomery Research Group that I run) that a tentative program has been posted for their forthcoming conference on Montgomery and the archival collection there. I will be participating in a roundtable of people who will be discussing two short films from the early 1980s: Boys and Girls and I Know a Secret.