Mapping Ann-Marie MacDonald
with Richler Writer-in-Residence Ann-Marie MacDonald and Dr. Neta Gordon (Brock University)
Wednesday, December 4, 5-7 PM
Redpath Museum Auditorium, 859 Sherbrooke West
Join the Department of English for an evening of literature, literary criticism, and digital humanities with our 2024-2025 Richler Writer-in-Residence, the renowned playwright, director and novelist Ann-Marie MacDonald and esteemed Canadian literature Professor Neta Gordon (Brock University).
In discussion with Ann-Marie MacDonald and Professor Erin Hurley, Professor Gordon will describe her student-centred, interdisciplinary project, "Mapping Ann-Marie MacDonald," and its frameworks of data feminism and consensus-driven literary analysis. It also explores the unique situation for faculty and students working on the project to be collaborating with the creative artist.
This year鈥檚 Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence is internationally acclaimed novelist, playwright, performer, and broadcast host, Ann-Marie MacDonald. She is the author of the bestselling novels Fayne, Fall on Your Knees, The Way the Crow Flies, and Adult Onset. MacDonald鈥檚 writing for the stage includes the award-winning play Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), as well as The Arab鈥檚 Mouth, Belle Moral: A Natural History, and Hamlet-911. She also authored the libretto for the chamber opera Nigredo Hotel, and book and lyrics for the musical Anything That Moves.
Neta Gordon is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Brock University, and the author of聽Catching the Torch: Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I聽(Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2016) and聽Bearers of Risk: Writing Masculinity in Contemporary English-Canadian Short Story Cycles聽(91社区-Queen's UP, 2022). Most recently, Professor Gordon has turned to research on Ann-Marie MacDonald, focusing on the author鈥檚 decades-long invitational approach to making space for marginalized voices.