The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: Alice Munro

  • “We Can’t Ask Alice”: Our Munro Roundtable at MLA 2026 in Toronto

    Huge thanks to Sarah Caskey, Nadine Fladd, and Julie Rivkin for their wonderfully thoughtful and engaging presentations. This was a tricky session for me, and I appreciated the guidance of Munro scholars–notably Maggie Redekop and Naomi Morgenstern, during the planning stage–as well as Lorraine York, whose work on Atwood and celebrity helped shape Nadine Fladd’s…

  • Considering Alice Munro

    I’ve been spending a fair amount of time working on a Munro chapter, in my Canadian women’s crime fiction book. The revisions since the spring have been rather more extensive than I’d anticipated. I thought I was writing about how Munro depicts violent crime, or suspicion that crimes have been committed, in a range of…

  • Canadian Art Monsters

    A CFP, to start, for what may be a doomed endeavour; my sense is that this is still, perhaps, premature? But the MLA Convention will be in Toronto in January 2026, and the CanLit forum panels don’t seem amenable to the topic (although I may submit something, in case I’m wrong). And I’m feeling a…