Professor Coral Ann Howells
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Professor Emerita of English and Canadian Literature
Areas of interest
- Canadian literature
- Contemporary Canadian women writers
- Gothic fiction
Background
- Lecturer and Reader, Dept. of English 1969-1996
- Professor of English and Canadian Literature, Dept of English 1996-2006
Academic qualifications
- MA (Queensland)
- Ph D (London)
Professional bodies/affiliations
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London
- British Association for Canadian Studies
Selected publications
- (Co-editor with Eva-Marie Kroller), The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Japanese translation (Tokyo: Sairyusha Press, 2016).
- “Alice Munro and her life writing”, in David Staines (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro (Cambridge University Press, 2016), 79-95.
- (Co-editor with Paul Sharrad and Gerry Turcotte, Vol 12 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English (Oxford University Press, 2017).
- (Editor), The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood, 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
- “But It Could Still: An Ecocultural 勛圖tv of Atwood’s The Tent”, Anglistik 34: 1 (2023), 177-192.
- “Margaret Atwood’s Burning Questions: Her Anthropocene Poems in Dearly”, British Journal of Canadian Studies 37:1 (2025), 3-20.
- “L’esthetique ecologique de Margaret Atwood”, in Christine Evain (ed.), Atwood (Paris: Cahiers de l’Herne, 2025), 107-112.
- Publications
- (Editor), The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
- (Editor) Where Are the Voices Coming From? (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004).
- Contemporary Canadian Women’s Fiction: Refiguring Identities (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
- Alice Munro (Manchester University Press, 1998).
- Margaret Atwood (Basingstoke and New York: Macmillan and St Martin’s Press, 1996).
- Jean Rhys (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991).
- (Editor with Lynette Hunter), Narrative Strategies in Canadian Literature: Feminism and Postcolonialism (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1991).
- Private and Fictional Words: Canadian Women Novelists of the 1970s and 80s (London and New York: Methuen, 1987).
- Love, Mystery and Misery in Gothic Fiction (London: Athlone Press, 1978). 2nd edition 1995; reissued (London: Bloomsbury, 2013).