Position, Awards, Education

Position

2019-2025: Henry Marshall Tory Chair, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta

2023-2024: Interim Chair, Deparment of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta

2009 to present: Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta

2014-2017: Associate Chair of Graduate Studies, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta 

2004: Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Alberta

1998: Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Alberta

Fellowship

Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 2022-present

Visiting Fellow, Merton College, University of Oxford, April 2024.

Eccles Centre Visiting Canadian Fellow in North American Studies, the British Library. April 2017-April 2018.

Awards

J. Gordin Kaplan Award for Research Excellence, University of Alberta, 2023.

"Great Supervisor" Award for Graduate Supervision, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Alberta, 2018.

The Killam Annual Professorship, University of Alberta, 2017-2018.

The Hogan Prize, a/b: AutoBiography Studies, 2017.

The Electa Quinney Award for Published Stories, Native American Literature Society (NALS). Life Among the Qallunnaat  by Mini Aodla Freeman. Eds. Keavy Martin and Julie Rak, with Norma Dunning, 2016.

Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, Manitoba Book Awards. For Life Among the Qallunnaat  by Mini Aodla Freeman. Eds. Keavy Martin and Julie Rak, with Norma Dunning, April 2016.

Finalist, Raymond Klibansky Prize (Now the Canada Prize) for the Best Book in the Humanities (English) for Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse. Award given by the ASPP, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2006.

Editorial Boards

a/b: a journal of autobiography studies

Canadian Literature

Critical Gambling Studies

European Journal of Life Writing

Palgrave Studies in Life Writing

Education

1998: Ph.D McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

1991: M.A. Canadian Studies Carleton University, Ottawa 

1989: B.A. Hons. English McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario