Instructor, Canadian Studies

Contact Information:

Office: 356 Business Administration Bldg.
Phone: (419) 372-3492
Email: margarc@bgsu.edu

Teaching:  CAST 201 - Introduction to Canadian Studies

Education:

• M.A., (A.B.D.) Michigan State University
• B.A., Ed., Northern Michigan University, 1990

Publications:

• “Writing Center Subverts Kevin Davis,” in Peer Review (publication of The Writing Center at Michigan State University), 1996.
• “Selfe Questions Electronic Global Village,” in Peer Review, 1996.

Conference Activities and Seminars:

• Panel Moderator, “Literary Representations of the North(s) at the North and Nordicity—Representations of the North Conference hosted by the University of Toronto, 2007.
• “Border Issues and the Imaginary in the Fiction of Joyce Marshall and Other Canadian Women Writers,” presented at ACSUS biennial conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 2001.
• “Home in a Foreign Land: Postcolonialism and Feminism in the Short Fiction of Joyce Marshall,” presented at ACSUS biennial conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 1999.
• “The Border Between: Houses in the Short Stories of Joyce Marshall,” presented at ACSUS biennial conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 1997.
• “The Third Thing: An ‘Intermodernist’ Comparison between Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Urquhart’s Changing Heaven,” presented at the (Canadian) Congress of Learned Societies, St. Catherine’s, ON, May 1996.

Professional Affiliations:

• Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS)
• Midwest Association for Canadian Studies (MWACS)
• Michigan State University Canadian Studies Association (MSUCSA)

Honors and Awards:

• SCRAM Fellowship, Michigan State University's College of Arts and Letters research abroad fellowship.
• George B. Lawson Prize, Michigan State University's Department of English essay writing award.
• Research Fellowship Competition Award, Michigan State University.
• Mildred B. Erickson Fellowship, Michigan State University.