Ian MacLaren
AASUA President
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Phone:
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780.492.2811
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Email:
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ian.maclaren@ualberta.ca
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Office:
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1600 College Plaza
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Office Hours:
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By appointment
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Address:
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University of Alberta
1600 College Plaza
Edmonton, AB
Canada T6G 2C8
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Ian MacLaren is also appointed in the Department of History and Classics. His research and teaching interests normally pertain to the interdisciplinary study of early Canada, and focus on the literature and art of exploration and travel, poetry, colonial studies, generally. circumpolar Arctic exploration, and the history of and writings about the Rocky Mountain national parks. A secondary interest is publishing history and bibliography. A tertiary interest is Canadian federal policies pertaining to the identification and management of protected areas. His editions of travellers' narratives and art include The Ladies, the Gwich'in, and the Rat (with Lisa LaFramboise; 1998), and Arctic Artist: The Journal and Paintings of George Back, Midshipman with Franklin 1819-1822 (with Stuart Houston; 1984). His most recent books are Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park: Studies in Two Centuries of Human History in the Upper Athabasca River Watershed (2007), and Mapper of Mountains: M.P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930 (with Eric Higgs and Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux, 2005). Recent essays include "The North as seen from Jasper—A National Parks Orientation to Security" (Humanizing Security in the Arctic, 2010), "Arctic Al: Purdy’s Humanist Vision of the North" (The Ivory Thought; Essays on Al Purdy, 2008), "Herbert Spencer, Paul Kane, and the Making of 'The Chinook'" (Myth and Memory: Rethinking Stories of Indigenous-European Contact, 2006), and "'Caledonian Suttee': The Rise and Fall of Carrier Cremation Cruelty" (BC Studies, 2006). He has supervised or is supervising graduate theses and postdoctoral projects about mountain guide Conrad Kain, Renaissance anthologist of travel writing Richard Hakluyt, nature writing in early Canada, the writing of women travellers in early Canada, studies of Inuit autobiography, the Canadian long poem, print culture in early Canada and Australia, the discourses of wilderness and ecology as they impinge on the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rockies, Native responses to Romanticism in early western Canada, and early Canadian periodicals. See website in the Department of History and Classics for lists of periodical and book publications (.pdf attachments of most are available by clicking on their titles).