Lorraine York, McMaster University
Communication Studies & Multimedia
Professor
Hamilton, Ontario
yorkl@mcmaster.ca
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(905) 525-9140 ext. 23739
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Bio/Research
Lorraine York is a contemporary Canadian literature specialist with a particular interest in theories of celebrity and authorship. Her first book, The Other Side of Dailiness, (ECW Press, 1988) examined the role of photography in postmodern Canadian literature. Front Lines: The Fiction of Timothy...
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Bio/Research
Lorraine York is a contemporary Canadian literature specialist with a particular interest in theories of celebrity and authorship. Her first book, The Other Side of Dailiness, (ECW Press, 1988) examined the role of photography in postmodern Canadian literature. Front Lines: The Fiction of Timothy Findley (ECW Press, 1991) was a study of systems and discourses of war as intertexts in Findley’s work. She also edited a collection of essays on Margaret Atwood, Various Atwoods, for Anansi Press in 1995 . Her book, Rethinking Women’s Collaborative Writing, published by the University of Toronto Press in 2002, reaches beyond Canadian literature to examine the workings of power, difference and property in collaborative works by women in English, American, Italian and French as well as Canadian literary and theoretical texts. Collaborators include: Michael Field, Edith Somerville and Martin Ross, Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland, the Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective, Carol Shields and Blanche Howard, Helene Cixous and Catherine Clement, and Suniti Namjoshi and Gillian Hanscombe. Along with Jennifer Blair, Daniel Coleman and Kate Higginson, she coedited ReCalling Early Canada: Reading the Political in Literary and Cultural Production (University of Alberta Press, 2005). She has just finished writing a book on Canadian literary celebrity that brings theories of celebrity drawn from film and cultural studies to bear on the celebrity of earlier Canadian figures like L.M. Montgomery, Mazo de la Roche, Stephen Leacock, Pauline Johnston, as well as contemporary writers Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields and Margaret Atwood. She has published a number of articles on other aspects of contemporary Canadian literature, and is the managing editor of the journal Essays on Canadian Writing.
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