Janice Williamson
Professor
BA Carleton, MA, PhD York
Janice Williamson has lectured widely and published on twentieth-century Canadian women's writing, feminist cultural studies (women's trauma narratives, feminist performance and women's film), and popular culture including written and video readings of West Edmonton Mall. Publications include, as author: Crybaby! (NeWest Press, 1998), an image-text creative nonfiction work exploring family photography and writing, women's autobiography, memory and trauma; Tell Tale Signs: fictions (Turnstone Press, 1991), an image-text collection, and several poetry chapbooks, including a boy named: -- a winner of the Canadian bpNichol Chapbook Award. Her collection of interviews, Sounding Differences: Conversations with Seventeen Canadian Women Writers (UTP, 1993), investigated questions of feminist and lesbian poetics, race issues, and canonicity. Other work include: editor with C.Potvin, Women's Writing and the Literary Institution [in Canada/Quebec] (U of A Research Institute for Comparative Literature, 1992); editor with D. Gorham, Up and Doing: Canadian Women and Peace (Women's Press, 1989), a collection of theory, activist documents, essays and creative work; curator and author with B.Elliott, Dangerous Goods: Feminist Visual Art Practices (Edmonton Art Gallery, 1990). She is working on an autobiographical creative nonfiction book-length work Hexagrams For My Chinese Daughter: A Mother's Journal on transracial adoptive maternity. Her edited anthology of essays, poetry and drama The Case of Omar Khadr is under consideration for publication by McGill-Queen's in the fall of 2011. Canadian women's nonfiction writing is the subject of her research as part of the electronic Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory.