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Margaret Steffler

January 29, 2015

Margaret Steffler is Professor of English Literature at Trent University. She is the editor of P.K. Page’s Mexican Journal (2015) and is editing selected children’s literature by Page. She has published on the work of Miriam Toews, Carol Shields, Alice Munro, L.M. Montgomery, and Sylvia Fraser. Her current research projects focus on the work of Miriam Toews and on narratives of Canadian girlhoods.


Works by Margaret Steffler

ArticlesBook ReviewsBook Reviews of Author

Articles by Margaret Steffler

Breaking Patriarchy through Words, Imagination, and Faith: The Hayloft as Spielraum in Miriam Toews' Women Talking
By Margaret Steffler
Published in Returns Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 243 (2020): 61-78.

Book Reviews by Margaret Steffler

Juggling Ghosts
By Margaret Steffler
Published in Science & Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 221 (Summer 2014): 125-127.
  • The Juggler's Children: A Journey into Family, Legend, and the Genes that Bind Us by Carolyn Abraham
  • The Hungry Ghosts by Shyam Selvadurai
Dreaming of Butterflies
By Margaret Steffler
Published in South Asian Diaspora. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 190 (Autumn 2006): 104-105.
  • Flame of Separation by Des Kennedy
  • The Migration of Butterflies by Carol Malyon
  • Honour Thy Mother by T.C. Badcock
Biography Colonialism Diaspora
Receiving Gifts
By Margaret Steffler
Published in Women & the Politics of Memory. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 186 (Autumn 2005): 155-156.
  • The Birthday Girl by Jean Little and June Lawrason (Illustrator)
  • I Gave My Mum a Castle by Jean Little and Kady MacDonald (Illustrator)
  • The Girl With a Baby by Sylvia Olsen
Novel
Noticing Small Things
By Margaret Steffler
Published in Women & the Politics of Memory. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 186 (Autumn 2005): 139-140.
  • Good Night Sam by Marie-Louise Gay
  • Sally Dog Little: Undercover Agent by Bill Richardson and Céline Malépart (Illustrator)
  • Peter's Pixie by Donn Kushner and Sylvie Daigneault (Illustrator)
  • The Subway Mouse by Barbara Reid
Children's Literature Poetry
Girlhoods of Difference
By Margaret Steffler
Published in Gendering the Archive. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 217 (Summer 2013): 154-55.
  • House of Spells by Robert Pepper-Smith
  • The Last River Child by Lori Ann Bloomfield
  • And Me Among Them by Kristen den Hartog
Children's Literature

Book Reviews of Margaret Steffler's Works

Mexican Journal
By P. K. Page and Margaret Steffler
Reviewed in Page in the Darkness by Emily Ballantyne