Alice Ridout

Biography

Alice Ridout teaches courses in Contemporary, Canadian, Children’s and Popular Literature. Her upper year seminars have included “Contemporary Women’s Historical Fiction,” “Re-reading the Canadian Postmodern: In Memoriam, Robert Kroetsch,” “Dear Diary: Fictional Diaries,” and “Twice Upon a Time: Contemporary Retellings of Folk and Fairy Tales.” Alice was born and brought up in Japan and is a dual British and Canadian citizen. These transnational life experiences have resulted in her interest in working across national borders in her research and teaching. She is the author of Contemporary Women Writers Look Back: From Irony to Nostalgia (Continuum, 2011), and co-editor of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook After Fifty (Palgrave, 2015) and Doris Lessing: Border Crossings (Continuum, 2009). Her work has appeared in the journalsAdaptation, Margaret Atwood Studies, Doris Lessing Studies, and the University of Toronto Quarterly. She is Website Editor for the Doris Lessing Society and was President from 2012-2015. She also serves on the Editorial Board for Doris Lessing Studies and was Book Reviews Co-editor for Contemporary Women’s Writing from 2009-2011.

Research Interest

Dear Diary: Fictional Diaries,” and “Twice Upon a Time: Contemporary Retellings of Folk and Fairy Tales.”