Willmott, Glenn A. 1963-

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Willmott, Glenn A. 1963-

PERSONAL:

Born April 12, 1963, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; son of Donald E. (a sociologist) and Elizabeth E. (an artist) Willmott; married Yaël R. Schlick (a literature scholar), July 7, 1995; children: Sabina F.S., Daniel E.W. Education: University of Toronto, B.A. (hons.), 1987; Duke University, M.A., 1989, Ph.D., 1992.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Office—Department of English, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, assistant professor of English, 1993-95; Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, began as assistant professor, 1995, became professor of English, 2004—.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Gabrielle Roy Prize, Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures, 2002, for Unreal Country: Modernity in the Canadian Novel in English.

WRITINGS:

McLuhan, or Modernism in Reverse, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1996.

(Editor, and author of introduction, notes, and bibliography) Bertram Brooker, Think of the Earth, Brown Bear Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2000.

Unreal Country: Modernity in the Canadian Novel in English, McGill-Queen's University Press (Ithaca, NY), 2002.

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