John Van Rys
Professor
Department of English
Redeemer University College
Canada
Biography
Van Rys works in two scholarly areas that relate well to his teaching: Modern Canadian Literature (especially historical fiction) and writing pedagogy. In the past decade, he has presented more than a dozen papers on topics ranging from trauma in Yann Martel’s Beatrice & Virgil to the evaluation of research resources in a Wikipedia world. Van Rys has published peer-reviewed articles on narrative truth in historical fiction, as well as on authors Margaret Avison, Alice Munro, and Carol Shields. This work has led to a special emphasis in Van Rys’s teaching on historical fiction and Canadian women’s writing.
Research Interest
Modern and Contemporary Canadian Writers: Alice Munro, Margaret Avison, Al Purdy, Joy Kogawa, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Carol Shields, Yann Martel.
