Mary Ann Gillies
D.Phil, Oxford, 1988Academic Positions:
Professor of English, Simon Fraser University 2008 -
Associate Dean of Arts and Social Science, Simon Fraser University 2003-2008
Associate Professor of English, Simon Fraser University 1998-2008
Assistant Professor of English, Simon Fraser University 1993-98
Canada Research Fellow, Department of English, Simon Fraser University
1990-1993
Contact Information
Mail Address
Department of EnglishSimon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C.
Canada
V5A 1S6
office: (778) 782-4837
FAX: (778) 782-3033
gillies@sfu.ca
Research Interests:
- Primary Area:
- Late nineteenth and early twentieth century British literature, especially Anglo-American modernism, Pacific Rim modernism, and print culture
- Secondary Areas:
- Institutions of literature, interdisciplinary approaches to modernism, literature and philosophy, cultural studies, and popular culture
Work in Progress:
Emily Carr and Katherine Mansfield: Voices From the RimArticles on Laurie R. King ("Laurie R. King: Post Modern Feminist Detective Fiction") and T. S. Eliot ("T.S. Eliot, Anglo-American Modernism, and China")
Books:
Pacific Rim Modernisms (co-edited with Helen Sword and Steve Yao).
Toronto: University of Toronto P, 2009
The Professional Literary Agent in Britain: 1880-1920. Toronto:
University of Toronto P, 2007 (Short listed for the Raymond Kiblansky Prize)
Modernist Literature: An Introduction. (co-author, Aurelea Mahood)
Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh P, 2007
Henri Bergson and British Modernism. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's
UP, 1996.
Refereed Articles and Chapters in Books:
Chapters in Books
“Oceans Apart? A Comparison of Emily Carr and Katherine Mansfield’s Encounters
with Modernism” in Pacific Rim Modernisms
"Introduction" to Pacific Rim Modernisms. Co-Authored with Helen
Sword and Steven Yao.
"Bergsonism" in A Concise Companion to Modernism. ed. David Bradshaw
(Oxford: Blackwells, 2002):95-115.
"A Case Study in Online Classroom Interaction to Enhance Graduate Instruction
in English Literature" in The Web in Higher Education: Assessing the
Impact and Fulfilling the Potential. co edited Cleborne D. Maddux,
and D. Lamont Johnson (Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, 2001):231-248.
Co-authored with Lucio Teles and Stacy Ashton. Simultaneous publication
of the article by Computers in the Schools.
"The Literary Agent and the Sequel" in Part 2: Reflections on the Sequel.
Eds. Betty A. Schellenberg and Paul Budra, Toronto: University of Toronto
P, 1998 (131-143).
Articles
"East Meets West in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot" Working Paper Series
(Hong Kong: David C. Lam Institute for East West Studies, 2002) 30pp.
"A Case Study in Online Classroom Interaction to Enhance Graduate Instruction
in English Literature" Computers in the Schools vol 18 no 1 (2001):231-248
co-authored with Lucio Teles and Stacy Ashton. Simultaneous publication
in The Web in Higher Education: Assessing the Impact and Fulfilling
the Potential. co edited Cleborne D. Maddux, and D. Lamont Johnson
(Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, 2001):231-248.
"A.P. Watt: Literary Agent" Publishing Research Quarterly vol.
9, no. 1 (Spring 1993):20-34.
"Thomas Hardy: Modernist Poet" Modern Language Quarterly vol. 41,
no 4 (December 1990):535-54.
"Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes as Bergsonian Comedies"
Conradiana 20:30 (September 1988):195-214.
"T.S. Eliot and Henri Bergson: An Uneasy Relationship" Eliot Centenary
Issue Literary Half Yearly vol. 23 no 2 (July 1988):1-13.
Conference Papers and Invited Presentations:
30 papers from 1990-2008, mostly on topics related to print culture (especially the literary agent), and modernism. I have served on a number of conference organizing committees in various capacities.I was the conference co-chair of MSA6: “Other Modernisms/Modernism’s Others” – the annual conference of the Modernist Studies Association held in Vancouver in 2004.
I was the program co-chair of SHARP 98 – the annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing held in Vancouver in 1998.
Grants, Awards, and Fellowships
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Aid to Scholarly
Publishing Programme, Publication Grant (2006)
Dean of Arts Research Grants (2002-2006)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Conference Grant
for MSA6 (2004: $50,000)
Visiting Fellow, Lam East West Center, Hong Kong Baptist University (2001)
SSHRC Small Grants (1997, 1999, 2003)
SSHRC International Travel Grant (1996; 1998)
Simon Fraser University Publications Grant (1998; 2008)
President’s Research Grant, Simon Fraser University (1990-1993)
Canada Research Fellowship, Simon Fraser University (1990-1993)
Faculty of Arts Research Grant, Simon Fraser University (1996)
Excellence in Teaching Award (Honourable Mention), University
of Victoria (Student’s Council) (1988)
Professor of the Year Award, University of
Victoria (Alma Mater Society)(1986)
SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, (1984-1985)
Rhodes Scholarship (1981-1984)
Supervision of Graduate Students:
PhD. Students:
Completed: Steve Collis; Kate Scheel
M.A. Students:
I have supervised 12 MA students and served on the committee of another 12 students.





