Irene Gammel
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| Citizenship | Canadian and German[citation needed] |
| Known for | - Modernism - Avantgarde - Dada - Canadian Women’s Heritage |
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| Fields | Modern Literature and Culture |
| Institutions | University of Prince Edward Island Toronto Metropolitan University |
Irene Gammel is a Canadian literary historian, biographer, and curator. She has published numerous books including Baroness Elsa, a groundbreaking cultural biography of New York Dada artist and poet Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, and Looking for Anne of Green Gables, revealing the hidden life of Canadian author L.M. Montgomery during the writing of her classic novel Anne of Green Gables.[1] Together with Suzanne Zelazo, Gammel published Crystal Flowers: Poems and a Libretto by Florine Stettheimer, and Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, the first major English collection of the Baroness's poems. Both books were selected for the New York Times’ notable art books for 2011.[2]
Gammel teaches at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Modern Literature and Culture[3] and is the Director of the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre.
Gammel holds a PhD (1992) and MA (1987) in English from McMaster University, and a Staatsexamen's degree from the Universität des Saarlandes in Germany. She taught at the University of Prince Edward Island and held Visiting Professorships at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and Erfurt Universität in Germany. She also served as the President of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association. In 2009, she was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada.
Exhibitions[edit]
- Irene Gammel curated Anne of Green Gables: A Literary Icon at 100, a cross-Canada centennial exhibition in 2008. With June Creelman, she curated Reflecting on Anne of Green Gables, Souvenirs d’Anne… La maison aux pignons verts at the Library and Archives Canada.
Publications[edit]
Biography / Non-fiction[edit]
- Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic. Toronto: Key Porter Books and New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008.
- Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity—A Cultural Biography. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.
- Die Dada Baroness: Das wilde Leben der Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Berlin: Ebersbach, 2003.
Criticism[edit]
- Sexualizing Power in Naturalism: Theodore Dreiser and Frederick Philip Grove. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1994.
Edited books[edit]
- Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011 (jointly with Suzanne Zelazo).[2]
- Crystal Flowers: Poetry and a Libretto by Florine Stettheimer. Toronto: BookThug, 2010 (jointly with Suzanne Zelazo).[4]
- Anne’s World: A New Century of Anne of Green Gables. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010 (jointly with Benjamin Lefebvre).
- I Got Lusting Palate: Dada Verse by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Berlin: edition ebersbach, 2005.
- The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.
- Making Avonlea: L.M. Montgomery and Popular Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
- Confessional Politics: Women's Sexual Self-Representations in Lifewriting and Popular Media. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.
- L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999 (jointly with Elizabeth Epperly).
Honors and awards[edit]
- 2009, elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Bolick, Kate (2008-08-14). "Irene Gammel's 'Looking For Anne of Green Gables'". New York Times. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ a b Smith, Roberta (2011-11-21). "For Art Lovers, Volumes Meant to Awe and Inspire". New York Times. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "Canada Research Chair in Modern Literature and Culture". Canada Research Chairs. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ Bloemink, Barbara (2017-07-06). "Imagine the Fun Florine Stettheimer Would Have with Donald Trump: The Artist as Feminist, Democrat, and Chronicler of Her Time". ARTnews. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "Dr. Irene Gammel". MLC Research Centre & Gallery. Ryerson University. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
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