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A selection of AvH’s scholarly articles from the past 15 years.

  • “Epilogue: Etching on Glass: Carol Shields’s Revision.” Relating Carol Shields’s Essays and Fiction: Crossing Borders. Ed. Nora Foster Stovel. London: Palgrave R Macmillan, 2023 (237-245).
  • “Procrastination.” A to Z of Creative Writing Methods: Knowing, Doing, Practicing and Creating. Ed. Francesca Rendle-Short, Julienne van Loon, David Carlin, Peta Murray, Stayci Taylor, Deborah Wardle. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023 (138-140).
  • “’Speck’s Idea,’ by Mavis Gallant.” Central European Journal of Canadian Studies. Vol. 17, 2022 (37-40).
  • “Encounters of Writer/Explorers: Surprise and Ambush.” Exploring Canada: Exploits and Encounters. Ed. Gerd Bjørhovde, Janne Korkka. Bern: Peter Lang Publishing, 2022 (23-37).
  • Reprint of “Ghost Narratives: A Haunting.” Bronwen Wallace: Essays on Her Works. Ed. Wanda Campbell. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2022 (158-173).
  • “The Ferocious Persistence of Place.” Space Place and Hybridity in the National Imagination. Ed. Christine Vandamme, Andre Dodeman. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021 (145-156).
  • “Metaphorical Murder.” American Review of Canadian Studies. vol. 50, no 4 (Winter 2020, 403-417).
  • “Trembling Strength: Migrating Vulnerabilities in S. Bala, Y. Ladha, and D. Chong.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 56.3 (September 2021, 345-358).
  • “The Radical Volte-Face of Place,” Special Issue on Place and Placelessness in Postcolonial Short Fiction. Commonwealth Essays and Studies 42.2 | 2020 (1-12).
  • “Re-Discovering Margaret Laurence.” Afterword, Recognition and Revelation: Short Nonfiction Writings by Margaret Laurence. Ed. Nora Stovel. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2020 (291-295).
  • “Driving Toward Digression.” Robert Kroetsch: Essayist, Novelist, Poet. Ed. David Staines. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2020 (233-244).
  • “Lies and Reparation: Palliative or Poison.” Glocal Narratives of Resilience. Ed. Ana Maria Fraile-Marcos. New York and London: Routledge, 2020 (192-203).
  • “Lola Montez, c’est moi; or, Francesca Replayed.” In Resurfacing: Women Writing in 1970s Canada. Studies in Canadian Literature, 44.2, 2019 (197-210).
  • “Afterword,” Post-Glacial: The Poetry of Robert Kroetsch. Selected and with an Introduction by David Eso. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2019 (77-85).
  • “New Versions of Roguery.” With Vanja Polić. Text Matters, Volume 9, Number 9, 2019 (9-21).
  • “The North Within.” Beyond the 49th Parallel: Many Faces of the Canadian North. Ed. Evaine Le Calvé-Ivicevic, Vanja Polić. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2018 (53-64).
  • “Invisible Restlessness in the Yearning City: The Classified and Consumed; or Joyfully Resonant.” The Urban Condition: Literary Trajectories through Canada’s Postmetropolis. Ed. Eva Darias-Beautell. Wilmington, Delaware: Vernon Press, 2018 (121-139).
  • “Across the ‘Ocean of the Page’: Nischik and Kroetsch Gaining Ground.” Gained Ground: Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies. Ed. Eva Gruber and Caroline Rosenthal. Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2018 (211-222).
  • “Teaching, or Not Teaching, Creative Writing.” Writing Creative Writing: Essays from the Field. Ed. Rishma Dunlop, Daniel Scott Tysdal, Priscila Uppal. Toronto: Dundurn, 2018 (201-209).
  • “Tripping on the Threshold: Groping in the Dark.” In-Between—Liminal Spaces in Canadian Literature and Culture. Ed. Stefan L. Brandt. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017 (35-44).
  • Afterword: “To the Lighthouse and Beyond: Five Memoirs of Women Scholars of Canadian Literature.” American Review of Canadian Studies, 47.3, 2017 (300-319).
  • “At Home or Nowhere.” Care Home Stories, Ed. Sally Chivers and Ulla Kriebernegg. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2017 (31-38).
  • “Lines on Biting into Kroetsch’s Lemon. Again.” Robert Kroetsch: Essays on His Works. Eg. Nicole Markotic. Oakville, ON: Guernica Editions, 2017 (176-181).
  • “Taking Stock, Reprise.” Studies in Canadian Literature, Special 40th Anniversary Issue: Canadian Literature: The Past Forty Years. 41.1 (49-64).
  • “Ordinary Life in Alberta in the First World War.” The Frontier of Patriotism: Alberta and the First World War. Ed. Adriana A Davies and Jeff Keshen. Calgary, University of Calgary Press, 2016 (219-230).
  • “Nur keine Panik/Pas de Panique.” Writing Crisis. Ed. Ursula Mathis-Moser. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, 2016 (157-208).
  • “The Half a Mile of Heaven’s Gate.” How Canadians Communicate: Sports. Ed. David Taras & Christopher Waddell. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2016 (361-375) (revised version of earlier published paper).
  • Foreword: “Masked Melnyk.” First Person Plural, by George Melnyk. Calgary: Frontenac House, 2015 (xi-xviii).
  • “The Sundance Kid: Simulacrum of a Visit.” Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, 2015 (1-7).
  • “Cleansing Dislocation: To Make Life, Do Laundry” in The Domestic Space Reader. Edited by Chiara Briganti and Kathy Mezei. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012 (194-197).
  • “Infiltrating the Transcultural City: Fenestrations, Farthingales, and Factory Girls.” Reading Transcultural Cities. Ed. Isabel Carrera Suárez, Emilia Durán Almarza, Alicia Menéndez Tarrazo. Palma, Spain: Editions U.I.B., 2011 (43-59).
  • “’Why Should We Forgive our Enemies?’ The Passions and Persuasions of Creative Writing.” Wascana Review 43.1. 2011.
  • “History’s Mirror.” Wascana Review 42.1. 2011. On-line journal.
  • “Stygian Suitcases: Travel’s Temptation.” Riding/Writing Across Borders in North American Travelogues and Fiction. Vienna, Austria: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2011 (21-33). Invited.
  • “Pretending to Europe.” Imaginative Spaces: Canada in the European Mind, Europe in the Canadian Mind. Judit Molnar, ed. Brno, Hungary: Masarykova University Press, 2009 (9-15).