Faculty Member, Department of English
Associate Professor
Bishop's University
About
Linda Morra's research and teaching interests encompass Canadian and American literature, Canadian and Cultural Studies, Visual Art Culture, Indigenous literature, and women's writing.
She earned her B.A. from the University of Toronto, and her M.A. and Ph.D. (in Canadian literature and Canadian Studies) from the University of Ottawa. Linda also held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (UBC), during which time she worked on her book, Corresponding Influence: Selected Letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth (2006). Her most recent interdisciplinary book, Troubling Tricksters, co-edited with Dr. Deanna Reder, is forthcoming in early 2010 (WLUP).
She is collaborating with Dr. Jessica Schagerl on editing Basements and Attics: Explorations in the Materiality and Ethics of Canadian Women's Archives (WLUP 2010), a collection of essays that assesses the negotiations—and sometimes contradictions—involved in responsibly dealing with the tangible records of women's public and private lives, and the fact that these preserved archival documents were often seen as part of a systematic nation-building process.
With funding and support from SSHRC (2005-2009) and the FQRSC (2009-2012), she is working on a monograph in which she explores Canadian women writers’ self-agency and textual integrity in relation to the publishing industry in Canada.
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