HUTCHEON, Linda

HUTCHEON, Linda. Canadian, b. 1947. Genres: Humanities, Literary criticism and history, Music. Career: McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, assistant professor, 1976-82, associate professor, 1982-85, professor of English, 1985-88; University of Toronto, ON, adjunct professor at Center for Comparative Literature, beginning in 1980, professor of English and comparative literature, 1988-96, university professor, 1996-. Robarts Chair of Canadian Studies at York University, 1988-89. Publications: Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox, 1980; Formalism and the Freudian Aesthetic, 1984; A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms, 1985; A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction, 1988; The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction, 1989; The Politics of Postmodernism, 1989; Splitting Images: Contemporary Canadian Ironies, 1991; Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony, 1995; (with M. Hutcheon) Opera: Desire, Disease and Death, 1996; (with M. Hutcheon) Bodily Charm: Living Opera, 2000. TRANSLATOR: F. Leclerc, Allegro, 1974. EDITOR: Other Solitudes: Canadian Multicultural Fiction and Interviews, 1990; Double-Talking: Essays on Verbal and Visual Ironies in Contemporary Canadian Art and Literature, 1992; Likely Stories: A Postmodern Sampler, 1992; A Postmodern Reader, 1993. Address: Department of English, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3K1.