Dr. Christl Verduyn is Professor of English Literature

English literature

English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....

 and Canadian Studies

Canadian Studies

Canadian Studies is a Collegiate study of Canadian culture, Canadian languages, literature, Quebec, agriculture, history, and their government and politics. Most universities recommend that students take a double major and French, if not included in the course...

 at Mount Allison University

Mount Allison University

Mount Allison University is a primarily undergraduate Canadian liberal arts and science university situated in Sackville, New Brunswick. It is located about a half hour from the regional city of Moncton and 20 minutes from the Greater Moncton International Airport...

. She is the 2006 recipient of the Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies

Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies

The Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies is an award established in 1995 by the International Council for Canadian Studies...

, awarded by the International Council for Canadian Studies

International Council for Canadian Studies

The International Council for Canadian Studies is a federation of twenty-one national and multi-national Canadian Studies associations and six associate members in thirty-nine countries. Established in 1981, the Council operates in both Official Languages of Canada...

. She is cited in particular for the integration of her scholarship with the larger community and for exceptional contributions to the study of Canadian women's writing, in both English and French.

History

Christl Verduyn is a graduate of Trent University

Trent University

Trent University is a liberal arts and science-oriented institution located along the Otonabee River in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.The enabling legislation is the Trent University Act, 1962-63. The University was founded through the efforts of a citizens' committee interested in creating a...

 in Peterborough, Ontario

Peterborough, Ontario

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. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Quebec literature from the University of Ottawa

University of Ottawa

The University of Ottawa is a bilingual, research-intensive, non-denominational, international university in Ottawa, Ontario. It is one of the oldest universities in Canada. It was originally established as the College of Bytown in 1848 by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate...

. She is a former President (2002) of the Association for Canadian Studies

Association for Canadian Studies

The Association for Canadian Studies is a non-profit organization, founded at Queen's University in 1973. Its activities are conducted in both Official Languages of Canada. Through the organization, its individual and institutional members initiate and support research and teaching in Canadian...

. Her published scholarship includes a number of edited collections of significant correspondence or articles, including Asian Canadian Writing: Beyond Autoethnography (with Eleanor Ty, Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Wilfrid Laurier University Press, based in Waterloo, Ontario, is a publisher of scholarly writing and is part of Wilfrid Laurier University. The fourth-largest university press in Canada, WLUP publishes work in a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences — literary criticism,...

, 2008), Must Write: Edna Staebler's

Edna Staebler

Edna Staebler, CM was a Canadian author, best known for a series of cookbooks, Food That Really Schmecks, based on Mennonite home cooking as practiced in the Waterloo Region....

 Diaries (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005), Marian Engel

Marian Engel

Marian Engel, OC, née Marian Ruth Passmore was an award-winning Canadian novelist.-Summary:Born May 24, 1933 in Toronto, Ontario, to teacher parents Frederick Searle and Mary Elizabeth Passmore...

: A Life in Letters (with Kathleen Garay, University of Toronto Press

University of Toronto Press

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, 2004), Aritha van Herk

Aritha Van Herk

Aritha van Herk is a Canadian writer, critic, editor, and university professor.She was born in Wetaskiwin, Alberta . Her parents and elder siblings immigrated to Canada from the Netherlands before she was born. She grew up in a bilingual home, speaking English and Dutch. In 1974, she married...

: Essays on her Works (Guernica

Guernica Editions

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, 2001), Marian Engel's Notebooks (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999), Lifelines: Marian Engel's Writings (McGill-Queen's University Press

McGill-Queen's University Press

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, 1995) and Dear Marian, Dear Hugh: The MacLennan

Hugh MacLennan

John Hugh MacLennan, CC, CQ was a Canadian author and professor of English at McGill University. He won five Governor General's Awards and a Royal Bank Award.-Family and childhood:...

-Engel

Marian Engel

Marian Engel, OC, née Marian Ruth Passmore was an award-winning Canadian novelist.-Summary:Born May 24, 1933 in Toronto, Ontario, to teacher parents Frederick Searle and Mary Elizabeth Passmore...

 Correspondence (University of Ottawa Press

University of Ottawa Press

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, 1995). She is also a widely published poet, including the collection Silt (Guernica

Guernica Editions

Guernica Editions is a Canadian independent publisher established in Montreal, Quebec, in 1978, specializing in Canadian literature, poetry and nonfiction...

, 2002).

In 2006, Verduyn was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Royal Society of Canada

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