Julie Rak

Julie Rak holds the Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her latest book is False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction (2021). She has written extensively on nonfiction, including Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market (2013) and Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse (2004). Her latest edited collection is the Identities volume of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory (2022), and with Sonia Boon, Candida Rifkind, and Laurie McNeill the forthcoming textbook The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada (2022).


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Signs of Life
By Julie Rak
Published in Archives and History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 178 (Autumn 2003): 105-106.
  • Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives by Helen M. Buss (Editor), D. L. MacDonald (Editor) and Anne McWhir (Editor)
  • Love Strong as Death: Lucy Peel's Canadian Journal, 1833-1836 by J. I. Little (Editor)

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