Christine Wiesenthal
Professor
BA, MA Manitoba, PhD Alberta
Christine Wiesenthal's primary teaching and research interests include contemporary women's writing, creative writing (particularly poetry and nonfiction), and auto/biography studies. Her books include Figuring Madness in Nineteenth-Century Fiction,1997; Instruments of Surrender, 2001 (shortlisted for the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award and the 2001 Stephan G. Stephannson Award); The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther, 2005 (awarded the Canadian Historical Association's 2005 Clio Prize and shortlisted as a finalist for the 2006 Governor-General's Literary Award for nonfiction); and The Collected Works of Pat Lowther, 2010 (awarded the Book Publishers' Association of Alberta Best Poetry Book and Lois Hole Award for editorial excellence in 2011 and shortlisted for the Canadian Editors' Association Tom Fairley award for editorial excellence). Other recent publications include a nonfiction essay "Horses of the Ghost," commissioned for the Banff Center for the Arts Literary Journalism Program (2009) and published in LAKE: A Journals of Arts and the Environment (2010), and numerous poems including work chosen for the forthcoming anthology, The Best Canadian Poetry in English, 2011. Christine was recently honored to be chosen as the recipient of the 2010-2011 Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence by the Faculty of Arts' Collective Body of Arts Students.