Patricia Demers
Professor
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Phone:
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780.405.1190
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Email:
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patricia.demers@ualberta.ca
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Office:
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4-43 Humanities Centre
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Office Hours:
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By appointment
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Address:
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University of Alberta
4-43 Humanities Centre
Edmonton, AB
Canada T6G 2E5
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BA, MA McMaster, PhD Ottawa
Patricia DemersFRSC, researches and teaches in the areas of early modern women's writing; Elizabethan and Jacobean drama;17th-century poetry; biblical literature; children's literature; and contemporary women's writing. She has published articles on these topics in Mosaic, English Studies in Canada, Semeia, Sixteenth Century Journal, Huntington Library Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation, Bunyan Studies, Literature and Theology, and Topia, among others. Her books include two edited anthologies of children's literature, From Instruction to Delight: Children's Literature to 1850 (second edition, 2004; third edition, 2008) and A Garland from the Golden Age, and these critical studies: Women as Interpreters of the Bible, Heaven Upon Earth: The Forms of Moral and Religious Children's Literature to 1850, P. L. Travers, Louis Hémon's Maria Chapdelaine, The World of Hannah More, Women's Writing in English: Early Modern England and editor, Hannah More's Coelebs in Search of a Wife, 2007. She was awarded the University Cup in 2005 and the CAUT Sarah Shorten Award in 2008. She has served as Department Chair (1995-98) and Vice-President of SSHRC (1998-2002); she is the Past President of The Royal Society of Canada (2005-07).