Visiting Scholars
TransCanada Institute sponsors visiting scholars interested in pursuing research at the University of Guelph and in nearby research institutions that fits its mandate. While it cannot provide financial support, it offers generous in-kind support in the form of office space, full library privileges, computing and other research facilities, and an environment conducive to intellectual dialogue and collaboration.
Research Fellows affiliated with the Institute for at least one term are expected to share their research with the other Institute Fellows and give a public lecture.
Vappu Kannas – 2012
Vappu Kannas is a doctoral student in the Department of Modern Languages/English at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research focuses on the journals of L. M. Montgomery, more specifically on the way Montgomery writes about her male and female romances. She has presented her work on Montgomery in several international conferences, for example the tenth triennial conference of the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies (NACS) held in Aarhus, Denmark in 2011, and the L. M. Montgomery conferences held in Prince Edward Island in 2010 and 2012.
Benjamin Lefebvre – 2012
Benjamin Lefebvre received his Ph.D. from McMaster University and specializes in twentieth-century Canadian literature, with secondary interests in television studies, texts for young people, and the archive. His edition of L.M. Montgomery’s rediscovered final book, The Blythes Are Quoted, was published by Penguin Canada in 2009 and has since sold to Finland, Poland, and Japan; it was followed by a restored and annotated edition (in collaboration with Andrea McKenzie) of Montgomery’s First World War novel Rilla of Ingleside (2010). He is also co-editor of Anne’s World: A New Century of Anne of Green Gables (UTP, 2010) and editor of Textual Transformations in Children’s Literature: Adaptations, Translations, Reconsiderations (Routledge, 2012). He has also published journal articles (on the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation and on texts by authors such as Arlette Cousture, Beatrice Culleton, Deborah Ellis, Joy Kogawa, John Marlyn, and Marlene Nourbese Philip) in Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse, Canadian Literature, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, English Studies in Canada, Essays on Canadian Writing, Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue d’études canadiennes, Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, and Voix plurielles. He is currently finishing a multi-volume project on L.M. Montgomery’s narrative strategies and reception history. Website: http://roomofbensown.net/
André Pereira Feitosa – 2009
André Pereira Feitosa is a doctoral student in Compared Literature at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. His project focuses on the grotesque in the works of Angela Carter, Lya Luft and Susan Swan. He has finished his master’s degree in Canadian Literature at UFMG entitled “The Female Body and the Cannibalistic Redemption in The Edible Woman: The Grotesque in Margaret Atwood.”
Sérgio Luiz Bellei is a professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Studies in the Department of Foreign Languages at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. He is the author of O Cristal em Chamas (1986), Nacionalidade e Literatura (1992), Monstros Índios e Canibais (2000) and O Livro, a Literatura e o Computador (2002). His main contribution to periodicals and collected works in Brazil and abroad include essays on comparative culture, and more recently, on the cultural significance of hypertext: “Brazilian visitors to the U.S.: 20th century perspectives” (North Dakota Quarterly, 1992); “Brazilian Culture in the Frontier” (Bulletin of Latin American Research, 1995); “A virgem dos lábios sem mel” (Luso-Brasilian Review, 1999); “odeandrade@pindorama.org.br; ou e-mail para Oswald,” (Luso-Brasilian Review, 2002); “Brazilian anthropophagy revisited” (essay published by Cambridge UP in Cannibalism and the colonial world, ed. by Peter Hulme, 1998). He is currently writing a book on digital libraries, hypertext, and literature.
Shaily Mudgal – 2008
Shaily Mugdal is a doctoral student in the Department of English, University of Rajasthan, in Jaipur, India. Her dissertation, “Third-World Negotiations with Canadian Identity: A Study in Theory and Practice,” explores Canadian diasporic representations. Her affiliation with TransCanada Institute was facilitated by a six-month fellowship from the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.