- Irene Gammel
Irene Gammel is a literary historian, biographer, and curator. She has published numerous books including Baroness Elsa, a groundbreaking cultural biography of New York Dada artist and poet Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, and more recently, "Looking for Anne of Green Gables", revealing the hidden life of Canadian author L.M. Montgomery during the writing of her classic novel "Anne of Green Gables". Irene Gammel teaches at Ryerson University in Toronto. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Modern Literature and Culture and is the Director of the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre. Gammel holds a PhD (1992) and MA (1987) in English from McMaster University, and a Staatsexamen’s degree from the Universität des Saarlandes in Germany. She taught at the University of Prince Edward Island and held Visiting Professorships at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and Erfurt Universität in Germany. She also served as the President of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association.
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Exhibitions Irene Gammel curated "Anne of Green Gables: A Literary Icon at 100", a cross-Canada centennial exhibition in 2008. With June Creelman, she curated ["Reflecting on Anne of Green Gables, Souvenirs d’Anne … La maison aux pignons verts"] [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/whats-on/anne-exhibition/index-e.html] , at the Library and Archives Canada. ----
Publications Biography / Non-Fiction "Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic". Toronto: Key Porter Books and New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008. "Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity—A Cultural Biography". Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. "Die Dada Baroness: Das wilde Leben der Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven". Berlin: Ebersbach, 2003.
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Criticism
"Sexualizing Power in Naturalism: Theodore Dreiser and Frederick Philip Grove". Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1994.
New York Times Book Review [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/review/Bolick-t.html?ref=books]----
Edited Books I Got Lusting Palate: Dada Verse by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Berlin: edition ebersbach, 2005.
The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
Making Avonlea: L. M. Montgomery and Popular Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
Confessional Politics: Women's Sexual Self-Representations in Lifewriting and Popular Media. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.
L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999 (with E. Epperly)
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External Links Official Website [http://www.ryerson.ca/mlc]
Canada Research Chairs [http://www.chairs.gc.ca/]
Looking for Anne Trailer [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymXbhAyLuDo]
Key Porter Books [http://www.keyporter.com/]
St. Martin’s Press [http://us.macmillan.com/lookingforanneofgreengables]
Ryerson University [http://www.ryerson.ca/english/faculty/gammeli.html
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