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by Maeve Conrick (Editor), Munroe Eagles (Editor), Jane Koustas (Editor)
Shows how the natural landscape and the built environment are both the product of and actors in the creation of ideological notions of Canada. Interdisciplinary in focus, it offers a perspective on land, landscape and landmarks in Canada by scholars from the UK, Ireland and the USA as well as Canadian-based scholars from France, Ireland and Canada.
Author Biography
Maeve Conrick is a professor and former principal of the UCD College of Arts and Humanities, University College Dublin. She has published extensively in books, journals, and edited collections in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, with particular reference to French and English. She is a former president of the Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland and recipient of the Prix du Québec. In 2017 she was awarded the Governor General's International Award in Canadian Studies.Munroe Eagles is a professor of political science and the director of the Canadian Studies Academic Program at the University at Buffalo - State University of New York (UB-SUNY). His research focuses on the electoral and political geography of Canada and on Canadian-American relations. He currently serves as vice-president of the Association of Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS).Jane Koustas, professor of French at Brock University, was the Craig Dobbin Professor of Canadian Studies at University College Dublin. She is the co-editor, with Christl Verduyn, of Canadian Studies: Past, Present, Praxis and, with Joe Donohoe, of Robert Lepage: Théàtre sans frontières: Essays on the Dramatic Universe of Robert Lepage. She is the author of Les belles étrangères: Canadians in Paris.Caitríona Ní Chasaide is a lecturer at Limerick Institute of Technology. Her research looks at second- and third-language acquisition from a sociolinguistic perspective. She also has a particular interest in immersion education. She is a former secretary of the Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland.
