Jennifer Andrews
Professor, Department of English | University of New Brunswick
Fredericton , NB, CANADA
Jennifer Andrews’s areas of interest include nineteenth- and twentieth-century English-Canadian and American literature
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Biography
Jennifer Andrews’s areas of interest include nineteenth- and twentieth-century English-Canadian and American literature, Native North American literature, literary theory, border studies, and cultural studies. Jennifer has supervised MA and PHD theses on a wide variety of academic topics including: the poetry studies of Leonard Cohen, English-Canadian short fiction by women, Dionne Brand's poetry, Native adaptations of Shakespearean drama, English-Canadian female fiction writers' use of humour, Douglas Coupland, depictions of female adolescence in Maritime literature, and the increasing conservatism of recent English-Canadian historical novels. She has also supervised several fiction creative theses.
She has published book chapters and articles in a variety of scholarly journals including American Literary History, ESC, American Indian Quarterly, ECW, The Canadian Review of American Studies and The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Her co-authored book, Border Crossings: Thomas King’s Cultural Inversions, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2003 and her SSHRC-funded book on Native North American women poets, titled In the Belly of a Laughing God, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2011. In 2014, she was awarded a $45,000 SSHRC Insight Development Grant to pursue a new project entitled “Americans Write Canada” that explores American constructions of Canadian identities. Jennifer is a former Acting Editor/Co-editor of Studies in Canadian Literature (2001-2002, 2003-2012), and served as Acting Graduate Director from 2011-2012. She served as Department Chair from 2013 to 2016. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
The following is a selected list of Professor Andrew's accomplishments.
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Areas of Expertise (5)
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century English-Canadian and American Literature
Native North American Literature
Literary Theory
Border Studies
Cultural Studies
Accomplishments (5)
SSHRC Insight Development Grant
Awarded $45,052 over two years, June 2014-2016
University Research Fund Competition Award Recipient
$5,300, March, 2014
University Merit Award Recipient
$5,000, May, 2011
University Research Fund Competition Award Recipient
$5,520, February, 2011
Busteed Publication Fund Award Recipient
$500, March, 2010
Education (4)
University of Arizona: Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Indian / Native North American Studies 1999
Held a Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship and a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Arizona
University of Toronto: Ph.D., English 1998
University of Toronto: M.A., English 1994
McGill University: Honours B.A., English 1993
Affiliations (1)
- University of New Brunswick : Elected Faculty Member Board of Governors
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Languages (2)
- English
- French
Media Appearances (2)
Faculties at NB universities pass no confidence motions in their administrations
NB Media Co-Op
2014-04-09
The New Brunswick Media Co-op interviewed Dr. Jennifer Andrews, chair of the English department and author of the motion, to discuss the priorities and ramifications of the motion...
Making Trouble at UNB
ACCUTE Canada Newsletter
2014-04-01
If, those many years ago when I first came to UNB, someone had told me that this winter I would have found myself on strike, and then locked out of my home institution, and that, in the aftermath of these events, I would be proposing a NoConfidence motion in the University Management Committee at an Arts Faculty Council meeting a few weeks ago (a motion that passed resoundingly), I would have laughed. I joined the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick in July of 1999, feeling perhaps naively optimistic and incredibly grateful that I had finally landed my dream job...
Articles (8)
Indigenous Women’s Poetry in Canada: Erotic Transformations
Native American Indian Studies2015
Rethinking Postcolonialism and Canadian Literature Through Diasporic Memory: Reading Helen Humphreys' Afterimage
Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory2014
Revisioning the Dick: Reading Thomas King’s DreadfulWater Mysteries
Detecting Canada: Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film2014
Reading The Bricklin: Narrating the Place of Dreaming in an Era of Self-Sufficiency
The Journal of New Brunswick Studies2013
Queer(y)ing Fur: Reading Fashion Television’s Border Crossings
Parallel Encounters: Culture and the Canada-U.S. Border2013
Public Education: What Not To Wear in the United Kingdom and the United States
Transformations and Mistranslations: American Remakes of British Television2011
Re-reading Photographs Through Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal
Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies2010
Revisioning Fredericton: Reading George Elliott Clarke’s Execution Poems
Studies in Canadian Literature2008
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