Carole Gerson

Carole Gerson is a professor in the department of English at Simon Fraser University and was a co-editor of the multi-volume project, History of the Book in Canada. Her focus on women writers has resulted in many articles that include well-known authors such as L.M. Montgomery and Susanna Moodie, as well as studies of the canonization of Canadian women writers that concern more obscure figures. With historian Veronica Strong-Boag she has issued two books on Pauline Johnson – Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake (2000) and E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake: Collected Poems and Selected Prose (2002). Her recent book, Canadian Women in Print, 1750-1918 (2010), which applies principles of print culture analysis to a wide range of early authors, received the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian criticism. In 2013 she received the Marie Tremaine medal from the Bibliographical Society of Canada.