Susan Rudy fonds

RUDY,  SUSAN, 1961-
Susan Rudy fonds.
1978-2003.

Susan Rudy is a professor of English at The University of Calgary. Her research interests include Canadian Literature, Experimental Writing, Feminist Theory, Literary Theory, North American Poetry and Poetics, and Women's Writing in English. She is the author of three books: Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1991); with Pauline Butling, Writing in our Time: Radical Poetries in English Canada (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005), and Poets Talk: Interviews with Robert Kroetsch, Daphne Marlatt, Erin Mouré, Dionne Brand, Marie Annharte Baker, Jeff Derksen, and Fred Wah (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2005). She is also the editor of Fluid Arguments (Toronto: Mercury Press, 2005), a forthcoming book of Nicole Brossard's essays in English and co-author with Pauline Butling of At the moment: alternative poetries and communities in English Canada since 1960. She has published papers on Eli Mandel, Erin Mouré, Audrey Thomas and Claire Harris. An active editor, she oversaw the publication of papers presented at the conference "Les Femmes et Les Textes / Women and Texts: Langages, Technologies, Communautés, Languages, Technologies, Communities"; she has also editied and co-edited several issues of the journal Open Letter: a Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory.
Fonds consists of material relating to Particular Arguments: a special issue on Bronwen Wallace, Open Letter, Seventh Series, No. 9, Winter 1991, guest edited by S. Rudy and Eric Savoy; material relating to "Les Femmes et Les Textes / Women and Texts: Langages, Technologies, Communautés, Languages, Technologies, Communities",  an international conference co-organized by Susan Rudy at The University of Leeds, Leeds, England, July 2-5, 1997; and material relating to English Studies in Canada, Special Issue: Women and Texts: Part Two, v. 28, no. 2, June 2002, co-edited by S. Rudy and Mary Jane Edwards.

Donated by S. Rudy in 2008.

Text in English.
No restrictions on access.
File level inventory available at repository.
Related fonds is Susan Rudy and Pauline Butling  Collection of research material relating to At the moment: alternative poetries and communities in English Canada since 1960.

Further accruals expected.

Acc 851/08.12