Andrea Beverley
Biography
Andrea Beverley teaches in the English department and in the Canadian Studies program. She is currently the Head of the Canadian Studies academic program. Dr. Beverley publishes on Canadian women's literature, often drawing on archival research and feminist theory. She has been at °®¶¹´«Ã½app since 2013.
Publications
Publications:
Dr. Beverley is the co-author, with Dr. Kait Pinder, of The Routledge Introduction to Feminisms in Canadian Literature (2026). Her work on Canadian women writers is published in edited collections such as Bronwen Wallace: Essays on Her Works (Guernica 2022) and CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (McGill-Queens, 2019) and academic journals including University of Toronto Quarterly and Canadian Literature. She has written about authors Suzette Mayr, Daphne Marlatt, Donna Smyth, Bronwen Wallace, and Elizabeth Brewster, among others. Her archival research led to publications on feminist literary collaborations of the 1980s, such as the Women and Words conference, the founding of the Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets, and the Women’s Peace Write Campaign.
Education
PhD, Université de Montréal
MA, Université Laval
Hon BA, University of Toronto
Teaching
Dr. Beverley teaches courses in both the Canadian Studies program and the English department. She is often part of the teaching-team for Representing Canada, an innovative first year course on Canadian culture. Her English classes focus on the diversity of the Canadian literary corpus, including reading Canadian literature in relation to regionalism, gender and sexuality, and feminist movements. She has supervised Independent Study courses on French-English literary translation in the Maritimes, queer archives in Canadian literature, and Indigenous literatures.
Research
Connections between Canadian literature and feminism
Literary archives in Canada
Prose and poetry of Elizabeth Brewster
Canadian women’s writing communities of the 1970s and 1980s
Collaboration in pedagogy and in feminist literary history
Grants, awards & honours
Dr. Beverley has received research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the °®¶¹´«Ã½app President's Research and Creative Activities Fund, and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec, Société et Culture.