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Department of

English

The Joanne Dempsey Lecture Series

In memory of the late USD Professor of English Joanne Dempsey, this biannual lecture series brings Renaissance scholars to the University of San Diego community.

Dempsey Lecture Series March 15, 2012, Warren Auditorium, Mother Rosalie Hill Hall (SOLES) 5:00pm
David Staines, "Border Crossings: Margaret Atwood's American-Canadian Vision"

Free Admission. Reception to follow. See flyer.

David Staines, a writer, critic, professor, and editor who helped establish the Giller Prize and the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, has been named to the Order of Ontario. Professor Staines currently teaches English Literature at the University of Ottawa. He has also taught at Harvard, the University of Prince Edward Island, Mount Holyoke, and the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). Staines has served as general editor of McClelland & Stewart’s New Canadian Library series since 1988, and has also edited books on Stephen Leacock, Margaret Laurence, Marshall McLuhan, and Northrop Frye.

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University degrees

PhD, Harvard University
MA, Harvard University
BA, University of Toronto

Fields of interest

  • Canadian literature
  • Medieval literature
  • Victorian poetry

Previous teaching

Harvard, University of P.E.I., Smith, Mount Holyoke, University of Massachusetts ( Amherst).

Ongoing research

Essays on Canadian literature, cyclic forms in medieval art and literature.

Selected publications
Co-editor, Northrop Frye on Canada (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2001); co-editor, Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Me (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2003).

Editor, Margaret Laurence: Critical Reflections (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2001);

Author, Beyond the Provinces: Literary Canada at Century's End (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995);

Editor, My Financial Career and Other Follies, by Stephen Leacock (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1993);

Co-editor, The Short Story in English (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991);

Translator, The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990);

Co-editor, Elements of Literature (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1987);

Editor, Stephen Leacock: A Reappraisal (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1986);

Editor, The Fortyninth and Other Parallels: Contemporary Canadian Perspectives (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1986);

Co-editor, Illuminations: The Days of Our Youth (Toronto: Gage, 1984);

Author, Tennyson's Camelot: The Idylls of the King and Its Medieval Sources (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1983);

Editor, The Callaghan Symposium (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1981);

Editor, The Canadian Imagination: Dimen­sions of a Literary Culture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1977);

Editor, Responses and Evaluations: Essays on Canada, by E.K. Brown (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977);

Awards and achievements

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Staines, David, co-editor, Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Me. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2010.

 

 

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Staines, David, translator, The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.

 

 

Past Lecturers:

2010 Linda Troost, Washington & Jefferson College
2008 Arnold Rampersad, Stanford University
2005 Richard Strier, University of Chicago
2003 Andrew Hadfield, University of Wales
2001 Joseph Wittreich, The Graduate School, City University of New York
1999 Diana Maddox, The Old Globe Theatre
1997 William Alfred, Harvard University

 

Joanne Dempsey

Joanne Thérèse Dempsey was born in Rockville Centre, New York, on December 26, 1946, and died in San Diego, California, on November 29, 1990. She graduated from Newton College of the Sacred Heart in 1968 and received her PhD in English and American Literature from Harvard University, with a dissertation on Milton’s Paradise Regained. She taught at the University of San Diego from 1980 until her death in 1990.

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Past Lecturers' Biographies:

2010 - Linda Troost, Washington & Jefferson College

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Linda Troost is professor and chair of English at Washington & Jefferson College in western Pennsylvania. She received her degrees from Smith College and the University of Pennsylvania and teaches British literature of the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, British drama, editing and desktop publishing, and theory and criticism. She is active in the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Jane Austen Society of North American, and the International Robin Hood Society. For four years sheserved assecretary/treasurer of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. In 2007–08, she held a visiting research fellowship from the Institute of English Studies of the University of London. She has published many essays and reviews and is founding editor of Eighteenth-Century Women, a hardcover serial from AMS Press. Most notably, she is the editor, along with her husband Sayre Greenfield, of Jane Austen in Hollywood, the first scholarly exploration of the Austen film phenomenon that started in the 1990s. She has lectured on three continents on Jane Austen and on Austen film adaptations. Listen to the interview with Linda Troost on KPBS radio HERE!