An Interview with Sherrill Grace
A Life with Canada's Literature and the Arts
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14288/canlit.vi263.201280Keywords:
Canadian literature, Canlit, Sherrill Grace, Canadian literary studies, Canadian North, Northern Canada, Canada in World War I and World War II, biography, women in academia, archival research, Timothy Findley, Malcolm Lowry, Tom Thomson, Mina Hubbard, Sharon Pollock, Margaret AtwoodAbstract
This interview by Margery Fee focuses on Sherrill Grace’s academic career in Canadian literary studies. The introduction outlines her many awards and gives an overview of the major figures about whom she has written. In the interview, Sherrill Grace discusses stages in her career from her early years in Quebec, her education, and her career at the University of British Columbia from 1977 to her post-retirement research and writing. Her identification as a Canadian inspired her research trajectory, as she moved from her work on Malcolm Lowry to Canadians, including Margaret Atwood; dramatist Sharon Pollock; Mina Hubbard, an explorer; Timothy Findley, an actor and author; and Tom Thomson, a painter. She also discusses how she learned as she taught and conducted research, from her colleagues and graduate students in particular, but also from her international conference participation as a speaker.
