Brendan Frederick R. Edwards
Education:
primary and secondary education
in Courtland and Tillsonburg, Ontario, 1980-1995;
undergraduate studies in
Film Studies, Queen’s University, 1995-1996;
undergraduate studies in
Canadian Studies and Native Studies, Trent University, 1996-1998;
graduate studies in Library
and Information Studies, McGill University, 1998-2000;
graduate studies in Canadian
Studies and Native Studies, Trent University, 2000-2002;
doctoral studies in History,
University of Saskatchewan, 2003-2008.
Degrees:
BA, on Dean?s Honours List,
Trent University, 1998;
MLIS, McGill University
(an A.L.A. accredited programme), 2000;
MA, Trent University, 2002;
PhD, University of Saskatchewan,
2008.
Certificates:
ACE TESOL Certificate, London
Language Institute (recognised by TESL Canada), 2007.
Academic Awards:
Courtland Lions Club Bursary,
1995;
Dean’s Honours List, Trent
University, 1997-1998;
Travel Award, Canadian Association
of College and University Libraries, 2000;
Entrance Bursary, Trent
University, 2000;
Travel Awards, History of
the Book in Canada Project, 2000-2001;
Ontario Graduate Scholarship,
2001-2002;
Recipient of funding, Symons
Trust for Canadian Studies, Trent University, 2001-2002;
Ontario Graduate Scholarship,
2002-2003 (declined);
Ontario Graduate Scholarship,
2003-2004 (declined);
Native-Newcomer Relations
Scholarship, University of Saskatchewan, 2003-2004;
Recipient of funding, Margaret
J. Messer Canadian History Fund, University of Saskatchewan, 2004;
Travel Grant, Society for
the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, 2004;
Recipient of funding, President/Student
Fund, University of Saskatchewan, 2004;
Travel Award, College of
Graduate Studies and Research, University of Saskatchewan, 2004;
Travel Award, Bibliographical
Society of Canada, 2004;
Travel Award, American Society
for Ethnohistory, 2004;
Recipient of funding, Margaret
J. Messer Canadian History Fund, University of Saskatchewan, 2005;
Recipient of funding, President/Student
Fund, University of Saskatchewan, 2005;
Travel Award, College of
Graduate Studies and Research, University of Saskatchewan, 2005;
Travel Award, Bibliographical
Society of Canada, 2005;
Doctoral Scholarship, Canada
Graduate Scholarships Program, SSHRC, 2004-2007.
Academic and Professionally related Experience:
Technical Trainer, Trent Radio, Trent University, 1997;
Spoken-word Archive Coordinator, Trent Radio, Trent University, 1998;
Reference Librarian and Library Assistant, Government Documents Department, McLennan Library, McGill University, 1998 -2000;
Member, Master of Library and Information Studies Student Association, McGill University, 1998-2000;
Library Assistant, Kingston Psychiatric Hospital Staff Library, Kingston, Ontario, 2000;
Graduate Student Member, Library Services Committee, Trent University, 2000-2001;
Research Assistant, Professor Alan Law, Sociology Department, Trent University, 2000;
Research Assistant, Professor Joan Sangster, History and Women’s Studies Departments, Trent University, 2001;
Teaching Assistant, Canadian Studies - History 101, “Canada: Nation and Citizenship,” Trent University, 2000-2002;
Supply Librarian, Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board, 2001-2002;
Archivist and Research Assistant, Professor Thomas H. B. Symons, Founding President and Vanier Professor Emeritus, Trent University, 2001-2003;
Assistant Curator, The Perkins Bull Collection Incorporated, 2002-2003;
Research Assistant, Professor Michael Peterman, English and Canadian Studies Departments, Trent University, 2002-2003;
Conference Organiser and Conference Secretary, Founding Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Studies, held at the University of King’s College, Halifax, 2003;
Teaching Assistant, History 152.3, "Post-Confederation Canada," University of Saskatchewan, 2004;
Historical Researcher, forthcoming National Film Board of Canada production on contemporary effects of the Indian Act, 2004;
English as a Foreign Language Teacher, Canadian Summer School, Slovakia, July/August, 2003/2004/2005/2007;
Graduate Student Representative, Founding Executive Council, Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture, 2004-2005;
Interim Special Collections Librarian, Research Services Division, Main Library, University of Saskatchewan, 2004-2005;
Member of Council, Bibliographical Society of Canada, 2005;
English Teacher, Obchodna Akademia, Trnava, Slovakia, 2005-2006;
Lecturer, Language Department, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Trnava, Slovakia, 2006;
Editor and Proofreader, 2006- ;
Library Trainer and Consultant,
Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge, Correctional Service Canada, Nekaneet Reserve,
Saskatchewan, 2004/2008.
Academic and Professionally related Memberships:
American Society for Ethnohistory;
Association for Commonwealth
Studies;
Bibliographical Society
of Canada;
Canadian Association for
the Study of Book Culture;
Canadian Historical Association;
Canadian Library Association;
Society for the History
of Authorship, Reading & Publishing.
Areas of Academic Specialty:
Canada since 1700;
Comparative Colonial History;
History of Literacy and
Aboriginal Peoples.
Comprehensive Reading Fields
completed, July 2005.
Dissertation title: A War
of Wor(l)ds: Aboriginal writing in Canada during the ‘Dark Days’ of the
early twentieth century
Publications:
Monographs:
Anson House: a refuge and a home. Trent University’s History 475 Class. Edited by Elwood H. Jones, assisted by Brendan F. R. Edwards. Peterborough, Ont.: Anson House Millennium Committee, 2001.
Paper Talk: a history
of libraries, print culture, and Aboriginal peoples in Canada before 1960.
Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2005.
Articles or chapters in monographs:
"’To put the talk upon paper’: Aboriginal communities," History of the Book in Canada / Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada. Volume II (1840-1918). Edited by Yvan Lamonde, Patricia Lockhart Fleming, and Fiona A. Black. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.
“Reading on the ‘Rez’” History
of the Book in Canada / Histoire du livre et de l’imprimé au Canada.
Volume III (1918-1980). Edited by Carole Gerson and Jacques Michon.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Book reviews:
Review of The Canadianization Movement: emergence, survival, and success, by Jeffrey Cormier. In Choice 42.5 (January, 2005).
Review of Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000, by Faye Hammill. In SHARP News 14.1-2 (Winter & Spring 2005).
Review of The Red Man’s on the Warpath: the image of the ‘Indian’ and the Second World War, by R. Scott Sheffield. In Choice 42.8 (April, 2005).
Review of American Indian Education: a history, by Jon Reyhner and Jeanne Eder. Submitted to Libraries & Culture.
Review of Bloody Falls of the Coppermine: madness, murder, and the collision of cultures in the Arctic, 1913, by McKay Jenkins. In Choice (February, 2006).
Review of A Book In Every Hand: Public Libraries in Saskatchewan, by Don Kerr. In Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 43.2 (Autumn 2005).
Review of From Migrant to Acadian: a North American border people, 1604-1755, by N.E.S. Griffiths. In Choice (January, 2006).
Review of Hidden in Plain Sight: contributions of Aboriginal peoples to Canadian to identity and culture, edited by D.R. Newhouse, C.J. Voyageur, and D. Beavon. In Choice (March, 2006).
Review of In the Days of Our Grandmothers: a reader in Aboriginal women’s history in Canada, edited by Mary-Ellen Kelm and Lorna Townsend. In Choice (August, 2007).
Review of Back Track, a novel by Harold Johnson. In Canadian Book Review Annual 2006.
Review of Travelling Knowledges: positioning the im/migrant reader of Aboriginal literatures in Canada, by Renate Eigenbrod. In Canadian Book Review Annual 2006.
Review of Battle Grounds: the Canadian military and Aboriginal lands, by P. Whitney Lackenbauer. In Choice (October, 2007).
Review of Nation and History: Polish historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War, edited by Peter Brock, et. al. In Canadian Book Review Annual 2006.
Review of Working on Screen: representations of the working class in Canadian cinema, edited by Malek Khouri and Darrell Varga. In Canadian Book Review Annual 2006.
Review of Tales from Maliseet Country: the Maliseet texts of Karl V. Teeter, trans. and edited by Philip S. LeSourd. In Choice (May, 2008).
Review of Canadian Studies in the New Millennium, edited by Patrick James and Mark Kasoff. Submitted to Choice.
Review of Encylopedia of Manitoba. Submitted to Choice.
Review of Makúk:
a new history of Aboriginal-White relations, by John Sutton Lutz. Submitted
to Choice.
Editing and Proofreading (resulting in publication):
Faculty of Architecture, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. Individually designed Slovak residential architecture 1989-2005 / Slovenský rodinný dom 1989-2005. Andrea Bacová, curator. Bratislava: Slovak Technical University Press, 2006.
Pavel Dvorák. Pictoria: the early history of Slovakia in images / Najstaršie dejiny Slovenska v re?i obrazov. Pictoria editions. Photography by Jakub Dvorák. Budmerice, Slovakia: Vydavate?stvo Rak Budmerice, 2006.
Juraj Štaffa. The Life
and Artwork of Sculptor and Medalist William Schiffer / zivot a tvorba
Sochára a Medailéra William Schiffer. Simona Jurcová,
curator. Trnava, Slovakia: Western Slovakian Museum and the Museum of Book
Culture, 2007.
Other writing:
“Diverse Canada: Part One: The Impossible Nation.” Friendship: for learners of English XXXX.1-2 (September-October 2006) 18-19.
“Diverse Canada: Landscapes and Environments.” Friendship: for learners of English XXXX.3 (November 2006) 7.
“Diverse Canada – Part 3: Multiculturalism.” Friendship: for learners of English XXXX.4-5 (December-January 2006-2007) 18.
“Springtime in Canada.” Editorial. Friendship: for learners of English XXXX.6 (February 2007) 1.
“Diverse Canada: Annual Holidays and Traditions.” Friendship: for learners of English XXXX.6 (February 2007) 6.
“Diverse Canada – Part Four: The English Language in Canada.” Friendship: for learners of English XXXX.7 (March 2007) 7.
“Diverse Canada – Part Six: Canada’s First Nations.” Friendship: for learners of English XXXX.8 (April 2007) 7.
“Diverse Canada – Part Seven: Famous Canadians, Famous Inventions.” Friendship: for learners of English XXXX.9-10 (May-June 2007) 10.
“Playing Canadian: the birth, near-death, and renaissance of popular Canadian music, 1950-present.” Indie Rock Memories <http://indierockmemories.com/PlayingCanadian.html> 2007.
“’He Scarcely Resembles the
Real Man’: images of the Indian in popular culture.” Our Legacy / k?-k?-p?-isin?
k? tam? koyiwa / T’a bet’á dene dáhidl? <http://scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy>
Launched 21 June, 2008.
Forthcoming publications / Work in progress:
“Chief Teller of Tales: John Buchan's Ideas on Aboriginal Peoples, the Commonwealth, and an Emerging Idea of Canada, 1935-40.” Forthcoming collection of essays in honour of Professor J.R. Miller, edited by Myra Rutherdale and P. Whitney Lackenbauer (under consideration by University of Toronto Press).
“A War of Wor(l)ds: Aboriginal Canadian writing in the early twentieth-century.” Forthcoming proceedings of the Third International Unconventional Meeting of Young Canadianists, held at North University, Baia Mare, Romania, April 2008.
Black Hawk and Other Stories by Edward Ahenakew. Edited collection of early twentieth century writings by Edward Ahenakew (Plains Cree). Compiled and edited by myself and Heather Hodgson (First Nations University).
Revision of doctoral dissertation
for future monograph publication.
Conference Presentations and Public Lectures:
“Oral literacy, Western literate tradition and libraries: (mis)representations of First Nations’ knowledge, cultures and literacies,” 5th Annual Wanapitei Colloquium, Temagami, Ontario, August, 2000.
“Opportunities and challenges of electronic information: Canadian government documents and online journal publishing,” a talk given (by invite) at the Research and the Information Age roundtable (with Professors Heather Menzies and Jean Manore), Trent University, February, 2001.
“CAHI 101 Library Research Workshop,” Trent University, 16-17 January, 2002.
"An Aboriginal intermediary and print culture: Charles A. Cooke (Thawennensere) and Indian Affairs in Canada, 1893-1926," a paper given (by invite) at the Symposium on Book & Print Culture, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Manitoba, 2 June, 2004.
"An Aboriginal intermediary and the written word: Charles A. Cooke (Thawennensere) and Indian Affairs in Canada, 1893-1926," Twelfth annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), Lyon, France, Ecole Normale Supérieure – Lettres et Sciences Humaines, 22 July, 2004.
“’With interests of philology and ethnology’: Charles A. Cooke (Thawennensere) and Indian Affairs in Canada, 1893-1926,” 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 30 October, 2004.
Comments delivered on the occasion of the McNally-Robinson Booksellers' book launch for Paper Talk: a history of libraries, print culture, and Aboriginal peoples in Canada before 1960, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 10 February, 2005.
“A Short history of Aboriginal libraries in Canada,” Part Two of Perspectives on the Past, Present, and Future of Aboriginal Resources (with David Smith), (by invite) at the Annual Conference of the Saskatchewan Library Association, Saskatoon, 23 April, 2005.
“Aboriginal peoples, print culture, and libraries: the Canadian situation within a Commonwealth context,” a paper given (by invite) at the Second conference of the Association for Commonwealth Studies on ‘The Literatures of the Commonwealth,’ Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, England, 16 May, 2005.
“Aboriginal Library History in Canada,” a talk given (by invite) to the Aboriginal Portal Team, University of Saskatchewan Library, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 27 June, 2005.
"Putting the Talk on Paper: Aboriginal peoples and the History of the Book in Canada," a talk given (by invite) to the Native-Newcomer Discussion Group, University of Saskatchewan, 20 October, 2005.
“’I Have Lots of Books to Convince You’: Andrew Paull, Aboriginal political performance, and the politics of literacy,” a paper delivered (by invite) at ‘Canada on Display: celebrating the teaching of History at Trent,’ Catherine Parr Traill College, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, 14 April, 2007.
“’Chief Teller of Tales’: John Buchan, a.k.a Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada (1935-1940): views on the Commonwealth and the place of Aboriginal peoples,” a paper delivered (by invite) at the Third Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Studies, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, England, 21 May, 2007.
“Writing and Speaking: Aboriginal Canadians performing on the page in the early twentieth century,” a paper delivered at ‘Open the Book, Open the Mind,’ SHARP Annual Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, 11 July, 2007.
“Playing Canadian: the birth,
near-death, and renaissance of popular Canadian music, 1950-present,” a
lecture given (by invite)
to CT 325-Canadian Pop Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University (Brantford Campus),
14 November, 2007.
“A War of Wor(l)ds: Aboriginal
Canadian writing in the early twentieth century,” a paper delivered at
the Third International Unconventional Meeting of Young Canadianists, North
University of Baia Mare, Romania, 18 April, 2008.
Teaching Experience:
Reference Librarian, Government Documents Department, McLennan Library, McGill University; 1998-2000;
Teaching Assistant in Canadian Studies - History 101, “Canada: Nation and Citizenship,” Trent University, 2000-2002;
English as a Foreign Language Teacher, Canadian Summer School, Slovakia, July/August, 2003/2004/2005/2007/2008;
Teaching Assistant in History 152.3, "Post-Confederation Canada," University of Saskatchewan, 2004;
Interim Special Collections Librarian, Research Services Division, Main Library, University of Saskatchewan, 2004-2005;
English Teacher, Obchodna Akademia, Trnava, Slovakia, 2005-2006;
Lecturer, Language Department, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Trnava, Slovakia, 2006;
Library Trainer and Consultant,
Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge, Correctional Service Canada, Nekaneet Reserve,
Saskatchewan, 2004/2008.