ANDREA CABAJSKY
Curriculum Vitae
Full Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Université de Moncton (2021-present)
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)
Lecturer in English, University of British Columbia (2002-2004)
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
Selected Publications*
*To access these and other publications, please see my Academia page.
Edited Books
Canadian Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century: Fiction (forthcoming 2026; under contract with Routledge Press).
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). Special issue of the Journal of Canadian Studies 53.3 (2019).
"Resurfacing: Women's Writing in 1970s Canada / Refaire surface : écrivaines canadiennes des années 1970" (with Christl Verduyn, Andrea Beverley, and Kirsty Bell). Special issue of Studies in Canadian Literature 44.2 (2019).
Articles in Refereed Journals / Refereed Book Chapters
"Canada," in Oxford Handbook of Victorian Popular Fictions, ed. Andrew King and Fiona Snailham (invited submission; in preparation).
"From Linguistic Constraint to 'Argotherapy': Reappropriating the Novel Form in France Daigle's Pas pire and Pour sûr," Topiques: études satoriennes (in preparation).
"Female Authorship, Incomplete Archives, and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Montreal: The Case of Rosanna Mullins Leprohon," Port Acadie 36-37 (2022 [published 2023]): 237-57. Special issue on "Women and Archives" ("Femmes et archives").
"Francophone Acadian Literature as an Ultraminor Literature: The Case of Novelist France Daigle," in Ultraminor World Literatures, ed. Bergur Rønne Moberg and David Damrosch, Leiden: Brill, 2022. 26-45.
"French-Canadian Literature from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century," in Cambridge History of the Novel in French, ed. Adam Watt, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2021. 362-81.
"Worlding French-Canadian Literatures / Littératures franco-canadiennes et littérature-monde" (with Nicole Nolette). Journal of Canadian Studies 53.3 (2019): 467-476.
"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 (2019): 5-15.
"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 Presentations (Last 6 Years)
"De la contrainte linguistique à la réappropriation romanesque : les jeux langagiers et lexico-ludiques dans Pas pire et Pour sûr de France Daigle," annual conference of the Conseil international d'études francophones (CIEF), Université de Moncton, June 24-28, 2024.
"La valorisation et l'interdiction de la langue vernaculaire dans Pour sûr de France Daigle," Topiques du langage et des langues dans la fiction narrative, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, November 23-25, 2023.
"La création littéraire comme outil d'émancipation linguistique en milieu minoritaire," L'Acadie politique sous nos yeux : au croisement des regards et des chemins. Colloque des Hautes Études Publiques (HEP), Université de Moncton, September 14-15, 2023.
"Formal Innovation in Francophone Acadian Theatre: Céleste Godin's Overlap, annual conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Chicago, march 16-19, 2023.
"Female Authorship, Incomplete Archives, and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Montreal: The Case of Rosanna Mullins Leprohon," annual conference of the Association of Canadian and Québec Literatures (ACQL), conference held online owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, May 26-28, 2022.
with Kirsty Bell and Andrea Beverley, "Regional CanLit and Collaborative Pedagogy, annual conference of the Association of Canadian and Québec Literatures (ACQL), conference held online owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, May 26-28, 2022.
"'A source of embarrassment for its critics': The Romantic Novel and Colonial Canada," annual conference of the Association of Canadian and Québec Literatures (ACQL), conference held online owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, May 29-31, 2021.
"'A source of embarrassment for its critics': The Romantic Novel and Colonial Canada," annual conference of the Association of Canadian and Québec Literatures (ACQL), conference cancelled owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, May 2020.
"Captivity Narratives and the Continental Literary Imagination in Douglass Huyghue's Argimou and Joseph Doutre's Les Fiancés de 1812, annual conference of the Association of Canadian and Québec Literatures (ACQL), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 1-3, 2019.
"Theorizing 'Romance' in Canadian and Québec Studies, annual conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Georgetown University, Washington D.C., March 7-10, 2019.
Recent Encyclopedia Entries
"Rosanna Leprohon," in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing, ed. Lesa Scholl, Palgrave-Macmillan. (First publication online in December 2022), Web. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_374-3.
Recent Invited Lectures
Keynote address: "Failed Future Worlds: Settler-Indigenous Relations in Canada's Colonial Fictions," conference (Re)Tracing Self, World, and Agency in Narratives of Transformation, Université Laval, March 15-16, 2024.
Plenary interview with author Beth Powning, Annual Atlantic Undergraduate English Conference (AAUEC), Université de Moncton, March 24, 2024.
Respondent to lecture "La mémoire culturelle face à la fin de monde" by Dr. Matthew Cormier, Webinaires de la Faculté des arts et des sciences sociales, Université de Moncton, January 18, 2023.
Recent Media Interviews
CBC Radio, Ideas, episode "The Passion of Émile Nelligan," January 9, 2024.
Recent Conferences Organized
Co-organizer (with Professors Thomas Hodd and Matthew Cormier), Annual Atlantic Undergraduate English Conference (AAUEC), held at Université de Moncton, March 24, 2024.
Co-organizer (with Professors Christl Verduyn, Andrea Beverley, and Kirsty Bell), Resurfacing: Women Writing Across Canada in the 1970s, held at Université de Moncton and Mount Allison University, April 26-28, 2018.
As VP of ACQL, annual conference of the Association of Canadian and Québec Literatures, 2016 and 2017.
Co-organizer (with Professor Christl Verduyn) of Literary Passages/Passages littéraires, a joint colloquium held at Université de Moncton and Mount Allison University, March 12-13, 2015.
Service (Selected)
University
Chair, English Department, 2011-2012, 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, 2021-2023
Selection Committee, Faculty Teaching Award (University-wide), 2013-2014
Human Research Ethics Committee, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 2006-2008, 2012-2014
Profession (Selected)
Member, Advisory Board, Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne (2023-present)
Member, Publications Committee, Awards for Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP), Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences (2020-2023; 2023-present)
Associate Editor, Journal of Canadian Studies (2015-2020)
Chair, Gabrielle Roy Prize (for the Best Scholarly Book in Canadian Literary Criticism) administered by the Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL; 2015-2017)
Vice-President (Anglophone), Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL; 2015-2017)
Member, Advisory Board, Early Canadian Literature Series, Wilfrid Laurier University Press (2012-2020)
Selected Awards and Distinctions (Last 6 Years)
Keynote speaker, conference (Re)Tracing Self, World, and Agency in Narratives of Transformation, Université Laval, March 15-16, 2024.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant (2024-2026; Principal Investigator)
Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, Université de Moncton, Standard Research Grant (2022-2024, 2019-2021; Principal Investigator)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Connection Grant (2017-2018; Co-applicant, with Christl Verduyn [Applicant], Andrea Beverley, and Kirsty Bell)