Gail Edwards
About
Gail鈥檚 teaching and research interests include Canadian social and cultural history, the histories of Indigenous peoples in Canada and settler colonialism, the history of childhood, the history of education, and histories of print culture.
Education and credentials
- PhD, British Columbia
- MLS, British Columbia
- MA, Dominican
- BA, British Columbia
Research summary
Her current research explores the intersection of children鈥檚 print culture and media with the history of storytelling and children鈥檚 programming in public libraries, focusing on complex and conflicted ideas about the relationship between Indigeneity, nature, modernity and national identity
Publications and other research outputs
She is the co-author with Judith Saltman of Picturing Canada: A History of Canadian Children's Illustrated Books and Publishing (University of Toronto Press, 2010). Publications include 鈥淩eading Canadian: Children and National Literature in the 1920s,鈥 in Children and Cultural Memory in the Texts of Childhood (Routledge, 2014), and 鈥溾楾he Picturesqueness of His Accent and Speech鈥: Methodist Missionary Narratives and William Henry Pierce鈥檚 Autobiography,鈥 in Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples: Representing Religion at Home and Abroad (University of Toronto Press, 2005).