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Eleanor Ty

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Eleanor Ty
Eleanor Rose Ty
Eleanor Rose Ty
BornManila, Philippines
OccupationProfessor
NationalityCanadian
Notable work Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority
Website
www.wlu.ca/faculty/eleanor-ty

Eleanor Rose Ty, FRSC, is a Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.[1] She holds a PhD and MA in English from McMaster University, and a BA Hons from the University of Toronto.

Career

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Eleanor Ty works on Asian American and Asian Canadian literature and film, life writing, graphic novel, Canadian literature and Eighteenth Century British novels. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Canada Research Chair, 2018–2019, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[2] She was awarded University Research Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2015.[3]

She has published twelve books: two edited collections on memory studies, six books on Asian American and Asian Canadian Studies, and four on Eighteenth-Century British literature. Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives was awarded the 2022 Prize for Edited Book Collection by the Comics Studies Society.[4] Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority won the APALA: Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association award for Adult Non-Fiction book in Literature for 2017.[5] Her co-edited book, Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography, received an honorable mention in the literature category in 2008 from The Association for Asian American Studies.[6][7] Her research on 18th Century revolutionary novelists, on Filipino American literature, and on women writers has often been cited by other scholars and resources.[8][circular reference][9][circular reference][10][circular reference][11]

In 2017, Eleanor Ty served as the program co-chair with Angie Chung for the annual conference of the Association for Asian American Studies held in Portland, Oregon.[12] With James Skidmore, Eleanor Ty served as Academic Co-Convenor of Congress for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2012 held in Waterloo.[13]

Awards

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  • 2019 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada [14]
  • 2018-2019 Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair,[15] University of California Santa Barbara[16]
  • 2017-2018 Asianfail was the Winner of the 2017/18 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Adult Non-Fiction Category. Awarded by the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association[17]
  • 2015-2016 University Research Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
  • 2010 Honorable Mention: The Association for Asian American Studies Literature Book Award for 2008
  • 2008 Aid to Scholarly Publications Grant
  • 1994 Unsex’d Revolutionaries Short-listed for the 1994 Raymond Klibansky Book Prize in English
  • 1993 Aid to Scholarly Publications Grant

Selected publications

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Books authored :

Books/Journals edited:

  • Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022.
  • Migration, Exile and Diaspora in Graphic Life Narratives. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies[18] (Co-edited with Candida Rifkind and Nima Naghibi). Spring 2020.
  • Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory (Co-edited with Cynthia Sugars.) Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2014
  • The Memory Effect: The Remediation of Memory in Literature and Film (Co-edited with Russell J.A. Kilbourn). Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013
  • Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography (Co-edited with Christl Verduyn). Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008
  • Asian North American Identities Beyond the Hyphen (Co-edited with Donald Goellnicht). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004
  • Memoirs of Emma Courtney by Mary Hays (1796)(Ed.). Oxford: Oxford World's Classics, 1996. xlv + 220 pp. 2nd ed., 2000
  • The Victim of Prejudice by Mary Hays (1799)(Ed.). Peterborough and Lewiston, N.Y.: Broadview Press, 1994. xxxviii + 198pp. 2nd ed., 1998

Chapters in books : (Selected)

  • Social Issues in Three 21st Century Texts About Growing up Canadian, in "Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien" ZKS, 68, Wißner, Augsburg 2018 ISSN 0944-7008 pp 103 – 113
  • "(East and Southeast) Asian Canadian Literature: The Strange and the Familiar." The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. Ed. Cynthia Sugars. 564–582. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016
  • "Contemporary Filipino American Writers and the Legacy of Imperialism." Chapter 21 of Cambridge History of Asian American Literature. Eds. Rajini Srikanth and Min Song. 371–386. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015
  • "Revising the Romance of the Land: Place in Settler Narratives by Contemporary Asian Canadian Writers." The Canadian Mosaic in the Age of Transnationalism. Ed. Brigitte Glaser and Jutta Ernst. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2010. 163-178
  • "A Filipino Prufrock in an Alien Land: Bienvenido Santos’ The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor." Lit: Literature, Interpretation, Theory. Special Issue on Asian American Literature and Culture. Ed. Karen Chow. 12.3 (Summer 2001): 267-283

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