RÉPERTOIRE

Born in Edmonton, 1939.
On the executive of LTAC from 1974 to 1985; President from October, 1979 to May, 1983;
representative of LTAC, at various times, on PLR Commission and Canadian Copyright Institute; on the committee to form the Translation Centre at Banff in 2001.
Has written widely on literature, translation and visual art (see website).
Author of Egregore, A History of the Montreal Automatist Movement (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1992), translated by Jean Antonin Billard as Égrégore, Une histoire du mouvement automatiste de Montréal (Montréal: KÉTOUPA édition et les Éditions du Passage, 2014). Co-editor with Betty Bednarski of Jacques Ferron hors Québec/Jacques Ferron Outside Quebec (Toronto: Éditions du Gref, 2010). Co-author, with Roald Nasgaard, of The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal, 1941-1960 (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2009). With Suzanne Mineau, intitiated and edited a collection of stories by Joyce Marshall, translated by various LTAC members, entitled Blood and Bone, En chair et en os (Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press, 1995). Guest editor and translator (in collaboration with Betty Bednarski, Ray Chamberlain and others) for a special number of Brick (No. 16, Fall, 1982) devoted to Jacques Ferron.

B.A. and M.A. in English, University of Alberta
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Rutgers
Taught at York University, Toronto, from 1972 to 2005. Currently Emeritus Professor and Senior Scholar

Canada Council Translation Prize (Now Governor General's Award for Translation), 1982, for translation of Claude Gauvreau's Entrailles