ANDREA CABAJSKY
Curriculum Vitae
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Université de Moncton (2011-present)
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Université de Moncton (2004-2011; tenured 2009)
Ph.D. (2002) University of British Columbia
M.A. (1995) University of Western Ontario
B.A. (First-Class Hons.; 1994) University of Western Ontario
Certificat, Français Langue Seconde (1993) Université Laval
Books
The Manor House of de Villerai: A Tale of Canada Under the French Dominion by Rosanna Mullins Leprohon. Edited (with Introduction and Notes) by Andrea Cabajsky. Peterborough, ON: Broadview P, 2014.
(with Brett Josef Grubisic) National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010. Reviewed in Choice, Canadian Literature, Anglistik (Germany), and American Review of Canadian Studies.
Edited Journal Issues
"Worlding French-Canadian Literatures / Littératures franco-canadiennes et littérature-monde" (with Nicole Nolette). Theme-issue of the Journal of Canadian Studies 53.3 (Winter 2019). Forthcoming.
"Resurfacing / Refaire surface: Women Writing Across Canada in the 1970s" (with Christl Verduyn, Andrea Beverley, and Kirsty Bell). Special issue of Studies in Canadian Literature 44.2 (Fall 2019). Forthcoming.
Articles in Refereed Journals / Refereed Book Chapters
"French-Canadian Literature from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century." In Adam Watt, ed. Cambridge History of the Novel in French. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, forthcoming 2020.
"Introduction: Worlding French-Canadian Literatures / Littératures franco-canadiennes et littérature-monde" (with Nicole Nolette). Journal of Canadian Studies 53.3 (Winter 2019): 467-476. Forthcoming.
"Introduction: Écrivaines canadiennes des années 1970 / Women Writing in 1970s Canada" (with Christl Verduyn, Andrea Beverley, and Kirsty Bell). Studies in Canadian Literature 44.2 (Fall 2019). Forthcoming.
"Francophone Acadian Literature as an Ultraminor Literature: The Case of Novelist France Daigle." Ultraminor Literature. Ed. Bergur Moberg and David Damrosch. Spec. Issue of Journal of World Literature 2.2 (2017): 158-77.
“Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French-Canadian Literature.” In Cynthia Sugars, ed. Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. New York: Oxford UP, 2016. 242-59.
“Afterword.” The Seats of the Mighty by Sir Gilbert Parker. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP (Early Canadian Literature Series), 2015. 371-98.
"France Daigle." The New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia. St. Thomas University. Summer 2015. Web.
“'Le sentiment vif de créer': entretien avec France Daigle." Studies in Canadian Literature 39.2 (Spring 2014): 248-58.
"'The Vivid Feeling of Creating': An Interview with France Daigle." Studies in Canadian Literature 39.2. (Spring 2014): 259-69.
“From The Abbott to Lady Audley’s Secret: Reconsidering the Form of Canadian Historical Fiction Through the Content of Library Catalogues.” In Janice Fiamengo, ed. Home Ground, Foreign Territory: Essays on Early Canadian Literature. Ottawa: U of Ottawa P, 2014. 89-113.
"Lost and Found: The Dead Witness (1872), Rosanna Mullins Leprohon's Final Novel." Canadian Literature 217 (Summer 2013): 196-202. Special Issue on “Gendering the Archive.”
“L'écriture et la réception de la rencontre interculturelle: paratextes et patriotisme dans Les anciens Canadiens et The Seats of the Mighty.” In Mourad Ali-Khodja and Jean-François Thibault, eds. Territoires de l’interculturalité. Québec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2013. 137-52.
“Plagiarizing Sir Walter Scott: The Afterlife of Kenilworth in Victorian Quebec.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 44.3 (Autumn 2011): 354-81.
“Canada,” in Peter Logan (Gen. Ed.) Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel (Oxford: Blackwell, 2011), 135-44.
(with Brett Josef Grubisic) “Introduction: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada,” in Andrea Cabajsky and Brett Josef Grubisic (eds.), National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press: 2010). vii-xxiv.
“Occupation, Assimilation, Partnership: Canadian Literature in English and French, 1769-1899,” in Elizabeth Sauer and Julia M. Wright (eds.), Reading the Nation in English Literature (London: Routledge, 2009), 186-200.
“Catholic Gothic: Atavism, Orientalism, and Generic Change in Charles De Guise’s Le Cap au diable,” in Cynthia Sugars and Gerry Turcotte (eds.), Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009), 1-21 (lead essay).
“Novel Reading and Women's Writing in the Romantic Period: The Modern Romances of Laure Conan and Maria Edgeworth,” in Michael Kenneally, et. al. (eds.), “Ireland and Quebec,” special issue of Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 33.1 (“Ireland and Quebec”; Spring 2007): 67-74.
“Historiographical Revision and Colonial Agency: Napoleon Bourassa's Jacques et Marie,” in Daniel Coleman, et. al. (eds.), ReCalling Early Canada: Reading the Political in Literary and Cultural Production (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2005), 73-90.
“The National Tale from Ireland to French Canada: Putting Generic Incentive Into a New Perspective,” in Jason King (ed.), “Ireland and Canada,” special issue of Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 31.1 (Spring 2005): 31-45.
“An Affair of Commercial Imperialism: Urbanism, the Environment, and the Canadian Thames.” In D.M.R. Bentley, ed. Mnemographia Canadensis: Essays on Memory, Community, and Environment in Canada. Vol. 2. London, ON: Canadian Poetry Press, 1999. 1-28 (lead essay).
Selected Papers Presented at Scholarly Conferences (Last 6 Years)
"Francophone Acadian Literature as 'Ultraminor' Literature?" As part of seminar on "Ultraminor Literature" co-organized by David Damrosch and Bergur Moberg. Annual conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Harvard University (March 17-20, 2016).
"Towards a Comparative Literature of New Brunswick: The Case of Moncton mantra by Gérald Leblanc." Annual conference of the Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL), Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Ottawa (May 30-June 2, 2015).
"Le roman historique canadien-anglais à l’épreuve de la critique littéraire." L’histoire à l’épreuve des sciences humaines et sociales. Symposium organized by the Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les cultures en contact (GRICC). Université de Moncton, 7 November 2014.
“Reconsidering Scott’s Canadian Reception in the Nineteenth Century Through the Content of Library Catalogues,” Tenth International Scott Conference, University of Aberdeen, Scotland (July 8-12, 2014).
“Interculturalism and the ‘New Comparative Literature’ in New Brunswick : The Cases of Just Fine and Moncton Mantra,” Annual Thomas H. Raddall Conference, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS (July 5-7, 2013).
“Lost and Found : The Dead Witness; or, Lillian’s Peril, Rosanna Mullins Leprohon’s Final Novel,” Annual Conference of the Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL), Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Victoria, BC (June 1-3, 2013).
“Alternative Responses to Nation-Formation: Variant and Lost Poems by Rosanna Mullins Leprohon,” Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics, co-organizer Christl Verduyn, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick (September 20-23, 2012).
“The Afterlife of Kenilworth in Victorian Quebec: Plagiarism, Sir Walter Scott, and the French-Canadian Historical Novel,” Ninth International Scott Conference, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (July 5-9, 2011).
“Reconsidering Frédéric Houde,” Annual Conference of the Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL), Congress of the Humanities, UNB, Fredericton (May 27-29, 2011).
“Reading Historical Novels at Four Confederation-Period Montreal Libraries,” Rediscovering Early Canadian Literature, University of Ottawa, Annual Canadian Literature Symposium, May 7-9, 2010.
“History and Community in Les portes tournantes and Fall On Your Knees,” Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), McGill University, Montreal, Canada, April 8-11, 2010.
Selected Recent Book Reviews
"Indigenous Poetics: Reciprocity and Responsibility." Review of Indigenous Poetics in Canada (ed. Neil McLeod; Wilfid Laurier UP, 2014). Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 77 (Fall/Winter 2015): 104-107.
"Resituating CanLit." Review of Devil in Deerskins by Anahareo (ed. Sophie McCall; University of Manitoba Press, 2014) and The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature, ed. Reingard M. Nischik (Palgrave 2014). Canadian Literature 222 (Autumn 2014): 117-118.
Review of Suzanne Desroschers, Bride of New France (Toronto: Penguin, 2011), Canadian Ethnic Studies (2014).
Review of Inventing Canada, Klaus-Dieter Ertler and Martin Löschnigg (eds.) (Peter Lang, 2008), for Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies (University of Cologne; Fall 2010).
Invited Lectures (Last 6 Years)
“L’Histoire à l’épreuve des littératures canadiennes,” for the conference, “L’Histoire à l’épreuve des sciences humaines et sociales,” organized by the Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les cultures en contact (GRICC), Université de Moncton, New Brunswick, 26 September 2014.
“Fanon de John Edgar Wideman,” invited lecture delivered through the monthly lecture series, Les jeudis de la librairie, a literary and cultural studies public lecture series directed to the university community and to the general public, organized by the Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les cultures en contact (GRICC), Université de Moncton, New Brunswick, 20 February 2014.
“Littérature et politique,” roundtable organized by the Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les cultures en contact (GRICC), Université de Moncton, New Brunswick, 15 March 2013.
“Joseph Anton de Salman Rushdie,” public lecture delivered through the monthly lecture series, Les jeudis de la librairie, organized by the Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les cultures en contact (GRICC), Université de Moncton, New Brunswick, 21 February 2013.
“Home de Toni Morrison,” public lecture, Les jeudis de la librairie, organized by the Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les cultures en contact (GRICC), Université de Moncton, New Brunswick, 24 January 2013.
“Out of the (Internet) Archive: Lost Poems by Rosanna Mullins Leprohon,” School of Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, May 12, 2011.
Service (Selected)
University
Chair, English Department, 2013-2016, 2016-2019
Academic Senate, Université de Moncton, 2012-2015, 2015-2018
Senate Appeals Committee, 2014-2016, 2016-2018
Tenure and Promotion Committee, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 2013-2014
Selection Committee, Faculty Teaching Award (University-wide), 2013-2014
Human Research Ethics Committee, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 2006-2008, 2012-2014
Profession
Associate Editor, Journal of Canadian Studies (2015-2018)
Vice-President (Anglophone), Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL; 2015-2017)
Member, Advisory Board, Early Canadian Literature Series, Wilfrid Laurier University Press (2012-present)
Acadian Literature Editor, New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, St. Thomas University (General Editor: Tony Tremblay)
Co-organizer (with Professors Christl Verduyn, Andrea Beverley, and Kirsty Bell) of conference Resurfacing: Women Writing Across Canada in the 1970s. Forthcoming April 2018.
Co-organizer (with Professor Christl Verduyn) of Literary Passages/Passages littéraires, a joint colloquium at Université de Moncton and Mount Allison University, March 12-13 2015.
Regular Researcher and Member of the Coordinating Committee, Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les cultures en contact (GRICC), Université de Moncton (2013-present)
Reader, Oxford University Press, Ashgate Press, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Canadian Literature, and Journal of Canadian Studies (2010-present)
Co-organizer (with Professor Elspeth Tulloch, Laval University) of colloquium “Representations of History in Canadian and Quebec Literatures” under the umbrella of the 133rd Congrès national des sociétés historiques et scientifiques de la France. Hotel Clarendon, Quebec City, June 7, 2008
Awards and Distinctions (Selected)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Visiting Fellow, School of Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University, Spring 2011
ASPP Grant for National Plots, 2010
Heritage Canada/Université de Moncton Standard Research Grant