Dr. Carole Gerson

Carole Gerson has become the single most important scholarly voice in the recovery of the history of early Canadian women writers which has been undertaken in the past fifteen years. She has written on the history of taste, on institutions, individual writers, and the establishing of canons; she has also edited significant anthologies and created important repositories of electronic information for scholars and students in the field. Her continuing research is informed by contemporary literary questions that have radically altered our understanding of the beginnings and development of Canadian literature. Her current work enters the lively debate on popular authors and contemporary culture.