Germaine Warkentin, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Toronto, is the leading exponent, editor, and theoretician of exploration writing in English about early Canada. Her obviously breathtaking range is matched by equally impressive depth: few scholars have increased more our knowledge of the history of manuscripts and printed books in Western Europe and the Americas from 1300-1700.

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WARKENTIN, Germaine –Department of English, University of Toronto
Germaine Warkentin, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Toronto, is the leading exponent, editor, and theoretician of exploration writing in English about early Canada. Using the important Humanities perspective of "book history" to investigate, anthologize, and edit the writings of Pierre-Esprit Radisson and other explorers, she inaugurated a new field of academic study in Canada. This is in addition to her major contributions as a scholar of Early Modern literature, and her foundational work editing and writing critically on major modern Canadian writers, from Northrop Frye to James Reaney. Her obviously breathtaking range is matched by equally impressive depth: few scholars have increased more our knowledge of the history of manuscripts and printed books in Western Europe and the Americas from 1300-1700.