Jennifer Andrews
Professor
Email: fassdean@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-1439
Mailing Address:
- Canadian literature written in English
- American literature
- Indigenous literatures of Turtle Island
- Literary theory
- Comparative Canadian-American studies
Education
- Hons BA (McGill)
- MA, PhD (University of Toronto)
Remarks:
I am the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and a member of the Department of English at Dalhousie. My latest book, Canada Through American Eyes: Literature of Canadian Exceptionalism was published in 2023 by Palgrave Macmillan. I’m most interested in how cross-border relationships have shaped literary and cultural studies in both Canada and the U.S.
I have supervised MA and PhD theses on a wide array of academic topics including the poetry of Leonard Cohen, English-Canadian short fiction by women, Dionne Brand’s poetry, Indigenous adaptations of Shakespearean drama, English-Canadian female fiction writers’ use of humour, Douglas Coupland, depictions of female adolescence in Atlantic Canadian literature, the increasing conservatism of recent English-Canadian historical novels, body image in contemporary Canadian women’s writing, healing in recent Indigenous women’s literature, and the reformation of Northeastern literary relations. I have also supervised several creative writing theses (plays, poetry, and prose).
Selected Publications:
“Introduction: Making Exceptions, Taking Refuge: Canadian and American Border Crossings.”Canadian Review of American Studies 56.1 (2026): 1-13. https://utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/cras-2026-001.
“Coda: The (Trans)national Dimensions of Camp Zero.” Canadian Review of American Studies 56.1 (2026): 144-150. https://utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/cras-2026-009.
“Reading Evangeline and What is Left the Daughter: Tracing American Projections of Grief Across the Forty-Ninth Parallel.” Comparative American Studies 18 (2021).
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14775700.2021.2008749.
“Reading Evangeline and What is Left the Daughter: Tracing American Projections of Grief Across the Forty-Ninth Parallel.” Comparative American Studies 18 (2021).
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14775700.2021.2008749.
“Becoming Bird(ie): Exposing Canadian Government Complicity with Forced Adoptions in Christina Sunley’s The Tricking of Freya” 2021. Exploring Canada: Exploits and Encounters. Eds. Gerd Bjørhovde and Janne Korkka. Bruxelles, Belgium: Peter Lang. 121-130.
“German Internment Camps in the Maritimes: Another Untold Story in P.S. Duffy’s The Cartographer of No Man’s Land.” Peer-reviewed contribution to On the Other Side(s) of 150: Untold Stories and Critical Approaches to History, Literature, and Identity in Canada. Eds. Linda Morra and Sarah Henzi. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2021. 221-239.
“The Missionary Position: The American Roots of Northrop Frye’s Peaceable Kingdom.” The Journal of Canadian Studies 52.2 (2018): 361-380.
“Escape to Canada: Richard Ford’s Fugitive Novel.” Canadian Review of American Studies 48.1 (2018): 38-62.
“Refusing the Borders of Can. Lit.” Refuse: CanLit in Ruins. Eds. Hannah McGregor, Julie Rak, and Erin Wunker. Toronto: BookThug, 2018. 165-176.
“Acadian Identities, Arcadian Dreams: Ted Dykstra's Evangeline.” Reading Between the Borderlines. Ed. Gillian Roberts. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2018. 310-351.
In the Belly of a Laughing God: Humour and Irony in the Poetry of Native Women Writers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. ASPP funded.
Border Crossings: Thomas King’s Cultural Inversions. Co-authored with Professor Priscilla
Walton, and Professor Arnold Davidson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.
ASPP funded.
Books:
Canada Through American Eyes: Literature and Canadian Exceptionalism. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, June 2023. Shortlisted for the 2025 ACQL Gabrielle Roy Prize for the best book in English-Canadian literary criticism. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-22120-0
In the Belly of a Laughing God: Humour and Irony in the Poetry of Native Women Writers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.
Border Crossings: Thomas King’s Cultural Inversions. Co-authored with Professor Priscilla Walton, and Professor Arnold Davidson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Selected Awards:
SSHRC Insight Grant, 2022-2027
SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2014-2017
SSHRC Research Grant, 2002-2007
SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1998-1999
Fulbright Doctoral Scholarship, 1998
SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, 1994-1998