BA [Hons] McGill, MA Cambridge, PhD Dalhousie
Nora Foster Stovelteaches Modernist literature, twentieth-century fiction, poetry and drama, and contemporary Canadian and women's fiction. She has published numerous articles on Modernist writers, especially D.H. Lawrence, and on contemporary women novelists Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood and Margaret Drabble. She has published Margaret Drabble: Symbolic Moralist (Washington: Starmont 1989), Rachel's Children: Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God (1992) and Stacey's Choice: Margaret Laurence's The Fire-Dwellers (1993) for ECW's Canadian Fiction Studies series, and two volumes of Margaret Laurence's Early Writings—Embryo Words (1997) and Colors of Speech (2000)—for Juvenilia Press. She has edited Margaret Laurence’s Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists (2001) and Margaret Laurence’s Heart of a Stranger (2003) for the University of Alberta Press. She was awarded a SSHRC grant and a McCalla Research Professorship to compose Divining Margaret Laurence: A Critical Study of her Writings, and she has been awarded a SSHRC grant to compose "Sparkling Subversions: Carol Shields' "Double Vision."