Contributors

Angie Abdou has published seven books and co-edited Writing the Body in Motion: A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature with Jamie Dopp. Her novel The Bone Cage, about Olympic athletes, was a Canada Reads finalist. Her two memoirs on youth sport hit the Canadian bestseller list. Booklist declared Home Ice: Reflections of a Reluctant Hockey Mom a “first-rate memoir” and a “must-read for parents with youngsters who play organized sports.” Abdou is a professor of creative writing at Athabasca University and a nationally certified swim coach.

Jason Blake is a professor in the University of Ljubljana’s English Department. He is the editor-in-chief of The Central European Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue d’études canadiennes en Europe centrale as well as the author of Canadian Hockey Literature (University of Toronto Press, 2010) and the co-editor (with Andrew C. Holman) of The Same but Different: Hockey in Quebec (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017). He translates frequently from Slovenian, and less frequently from German, and he has published a trio of guides aimed at Slovenian students writing in English. In 2022 he received the International Council of Canadian Studies’ Certificate of Merit.

Misao Dean is a professor at the University of Victoria, specializing in early Canadian writing. Her most recent book is Inheriting a Canoe Paddle (University of Toronto Press, 2013).

Jamie Dopp is an associate professor of Canadian literature at the University of Victoria. He is the author of two novels, three collections of poems, and many essays and reviews. In recent years his academic work has focused on sport literature in Canada. He has co-edited two earlier collections of essays, Now Is the Winter: Thinking about Hockey, with Richard Harrison, and Writing the Body in Motion: A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature, with Angie Abdou. He is currently nearing completion of a major critical work called Hockey on the Moon: Imagination and Canada’s Game.

Adrian Markle is the author of the forthcoming novel Bruise (Brindle & Glass) as well as short stories in magazines and anthologies around the world, including EVENT and Release Any Words Stuck Inside of You. His critical work also appears in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature and The Power of Storytelling in Hong Kong Education (Routledge, forthcoming). Adrian has a PhD from the University of Exeter and currently teaches English and creative writing at Falmouth University in Cornwall, UK, where he lives with his partner, the writer Eleanor Walsh. He likes old dogs.

Fred Mason teaches sport sociology and sport history in kinesiology at the University of New Brunswick. Fred’s wide-ranging published academic research includes work on media coverage of parasports and women’s sports, the history of sports medicine, fieldwork at the Women’s World Cup and the Olympics, fictional hockey enforcers, and science fiction and fantasy writing with sport connections. He has published short fiction in chapbook collections and the Canadian Writer’s Journal, poetry in the anthology The Warbler’s Song, and photography in the magazine incunabula and on the cover of the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. As of writing, he has completed twenty-nine ultramarathons, including three hundred-milers in Vermont, at Cape Chignecto, Nova Scotia, and on a treadmill.

Eva-Maria Müller studied at Gieß en University and the University of Alberta and is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck. Her chapter in this volume developed out of her PhD thesis, “Rewriting Alpine Orientalism: Lessons from the Canadian Rockies and Austrian Alps.” Her most recent mountain-themed publications include an article in The New Review of Film and Television Studies, “Cinematic Cultures of Descent: The Other Sides of the Mountaineering Story” (2023), and, with Christian Quendler, a co-edited special issue of the Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, “Mediating Mountains” (2022). She also serves as academic advisor for two cultural festivals in the Tyrolean Alps.

Gyllian Phillips is a professor in the Department of English Studies at Nipissing University. She co-edited (with Allan Pero) The Many Facades of Edith Sitwell (University Press of Florida, 2017) and has published articles on other modernist writers, 1930s film, travel writing, and postcolonial literature. Her most recent work, in research and teaching, focuses on decolonizing approaches to ecocriticism in outdoor adventure narratives.

Jael Richardson is the founder and executive director of FOLD—the Festival of Literary Diversity (https://thefoldcanada.org/). She is the author of The Stone Thrower, Gutter Child, Because You Are, and The Hockey Jersey. Richardson holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Guelph and lives in Brampton, Ontario.

Veronika Schuchter teaches at Oxford University. She situates her research broadly at the intersection of contemporary literature, postcolonial studies, gender studies, and the medical humanities. Her current research project offers the first study of menopause as a literary trope in fiction, auto-fiction, and poetry by selected writers in the twenty-first century. Her PhD dissertation, “Imagining a Feminist Supermodernity: Non-Places in Contemporary British and Canadian Women’s Writing,” is the first major reconsideration of Marc Augé’s theorization of supermodernity and its non-places through an intersectional feminist lens.

Heidi Tiedemann Darroch currently teaches Canadian studies at the University of Victoria and writing and literature at Camosun College. She has published on Atwood, Munro, Canadian drama, and mystery fiction, and she has a chapter forthcoming in the MLA’s volume Teaching Margaret Atwood. She is working on a book-length study of Louise Penny and the landscape of Canadian crime fiction. Her PhD is from the University of Toronto.

Cory Willard holds a PhD in English literary and cultural studies from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He splits his time between teaching in the Department of English, Languages, and Cultures and working as a writing and learning strategist at Mount Royal University. His writing and research focus primarily on North American fly fishing literature with emphases on ecocriticism, place studies, and environmental ethics. When he’s not trapped at a desk, you can find him streamside.