Gisele Baxter
Lecturer, University of British Columbia English Department.
Last Contribution:
Why Does There Need to be a Great American Novelist?
Contributor Biography
Gisele Baxter is a lecturer in the English department at the University of British Columbia. She holds a BA from Mount Saint Vincent University and an MA and PhD from Dalhousie University. She is the recipient of the Ian Fairclough Teaching Prize (2002-03), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship (1992-94), the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (1989-90), the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship (Honourary) (1989-90), and the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship (1988-89). Her teaching and research interests include 20th- and 21st-century literary and cultural studies; history of the novel; representations of near-future/alternate history dystopias; the production and reception of popular culture; the gothic inheritance in literature and popular culture; narrative in prose fiction and film; the turn of the millennium and the gothic impulse; Dracula and Frankenstein in various media; representations of gender; narrative forms and theory; composition; and children's and "young adult" literature.
