Mary McGillivray

Department

English

Campus Location

Nicholson Tower

Phone

(902) 867-2256

Biography

Ph.D. (Queen's University)

M.A. English (Dalhousie University)

B.A. Honours English and French Literature (Dalhousie)

Academic Positions:

Academic Vice President and Provost (2005-2013)
Dean of Arts (2003-2005)
Chair, Department of English (1999-2002)

Research

Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century Canadian Poetry; Biography; 20th-Century Canadian Culture; Canadian Studies; Canada and Internationalism/Multiculturalism; Canada and the Eurasian East

Recent Activities:

Visiting Professor, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey (November, December 2013)

Visiting Professor, Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey (2014)

Publications

Public Lecture:

" 'Real Life': Space, Time and Identity in the Short Fiction of Alice Munro," Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2014.

The L'nu symbol. L’nu is a word the Mi’kmaq use to describe themselves, meaning “human being” or “the people.”

StFX espi-kina’matno’kuom etek Mi’kma’ki, wejkwa’taqanik Mi’kmaq maqamikewmuew mna’q iknmuetu’tik. Nalikitquniejk na Mi’kmawey wisun wjit Antigonish teluek Aklasie’w-iktuk, ‘place where branches are torn off.’

StFX is located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded ancestral territory of the Mi'kmaw people. The Mi'kmaw name for Antigonish is Nalikitquniejk, meaning ‘place where branches are torn off.’

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