ACCUTE 2009
Organized and chaired by Thomas Hodd (Guelph-Humber) and Tobi Kozakewich (Queen’s), these two panels took place at Carleton University on 23 and 25 May 2009.
Where Would We Be Without our Supporting Cast? Cultural Workers in Early Canadian Literary Society
- D.M.R. Bentley (Western), “Thomas Cary’s Work for the ‘Peace and Good Order of a Well-Regulated Society’”
- Suzanne Bowness (Ottawa), “‘Behind every good writer is a great editor’: Edmund E. Sheppard and Saturday Night“
- Geordan Patterson (Alberta), “The Mouthpieces of Dalhousie: Dalhousie’s Patronage of Early Canadian Letters”
- Janice Fiamengo (Ottawa), “Fighting the Philistines: Sara Jeannette Duncan as Reviewer”
Snap, Crackle, Pop: Rethinking Early Canadian Popular Literature
- Kathleen Patchell (Ottawa), “Divergent Paths: Anne of Green Gables and Sowing Seeds in Danny“
- Susan Warwick (York), “‘Out of the gray everydayness of things’: Arthur Stringer and Popular Canadian Crime Fiction”
- Linda Quirk (Queen’s), “Beyond the Margins of the Canadian Literary Canon: Recovering the Lost Stories of Joanna E. Wood”
ACCUTE 2008
Organized and chaired by Janice Fiamengo (Ottawa) and Thomas Hodd (Guelph-Humber), these two panels took place at the University of British Columbia on 1 June 2008.
New Directions in Early Canadian Literary Studies I
- D.M.R. Bentley (Western), “Location Studies: A Prospectus”
- I.S. MacLaren (Alberta), “The Challenges of Teaching to Undergraduates North American Literature in English before 1800″
- Jessica Schagerl (McMaster), “Making Peace with Early Canadian Literary Studies”
- Allan Weiss (York), “Strong and Free: Themes in Early Canadian Utopian Literature”
New Directions in Early Canadian Literary Studies II
- Gwendolyn Guth (Heritage), “Louisa Murray’s ‘Suppression of Genius in Women’ and Other Forgotten Essays”
- Linda Quirk (Queen’s), “Too Transgressive for Can. Lit.: Sara Jeannette Duncan’s A Social Departure“
- Shelley Hulan (Waterloo), “Early Native and Metis-Authored Historiography as Rhetoric”