Elizabeth McKim

Department of English
BA (UNBSJ), MA (Concordia), PhD (York)
Professor (1991)
Associate Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Narrative
Co-Editor, Narrative Works: Issues, Investigations, & Interventions

Office: Edmund Casey Hall, Room 322
Mailbox: Edmund Casey Hall, Room 220
Phone: (506) 452-0448
Fax: (506) 450-9615

e-mail: mckim@stu.ca

Interests

Poetry of the Romantic period, poetic theory, versification, narrative theory, literature and medicine, literary gerontology.

Courses Regularly Taught

English 1006 Introduction to Literature
English 2013 Research Methods in English
English 2023 Survey of English Literature
English 2653 Literature and Aging
English 3363 Romantic Period 1
English 3633 Literature and Medicine
English 3723 Jane Austen

Selected Publications

"Kay Smith." New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia. Ed. Anthony Tremblay. Digital, (Forthcoming.)

With William L. Randall. Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old. Oxford University Press (2008).

With William L. Randall. "From Psychology to Poetics: Aging as a Literary Process." Journal of Aging, Humanities, and the Arts 1.3 (2007): 147-58.

"Making Poetry of Pain: The Headache Poems of Jane Cave Winscom." Literature and Medicine 24.1 (Spring 2005): 93-108.

With William L. Randall. "Toward a Poetics of Aging: The Links between Literature and Life." Narrative Inquiry 14.2 (2004): 235-60.

With Roger Gerald Moore. "Through a Distorting Mirror: Elizabeth Bishop's Translations of Two Poems by Octavio Paz." "Divisions of the Heart": Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Memory and PlaceI. Ed. Sandra Barry, Gwendolyn Davies, and Peter Sanger. Wolfville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2001. 267-77.

"'Driving to the Interior': Shifting Boundaries in the Early Landscape Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop." Wascana Review 34.1 (1999): 9-25.

"Not, Properly Speaking, Irregular': The Metre of 'Christabel.'" Wordsworth Circle 24 (1993): 74-78.

"'An Epicure in Sound': Coleridge on the Scansion of Verse." English Studies in Canada 18 (1992): 287-300.

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