Montréal, Québec Nov 8 - 11, 2007Plenary Our new keynote speaker is Priscilla L. Walton, Professor of English at Carleton University, and editor of the Canadian Review of American Studies. She is the author of Our Cannibals, Ourselves: The Body Politic (Illinois, 2004), Patriarchal Desire and Victorian Discourse: A Lacanian Reading of Anthony Trollope's Palliser Novels (Toronto, 1995), and The Disruption of the Feminine in Henry James (Toronto, 1992). She is the co-author, along with Manina Jones, of Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hardboiled Tradition (California, 1999), and, along with Jennifer Andrews and Arnold E. Davidson, of Border Crossings: Thomas King’s Cultural Inversions (Toronto, 2003). She co-edited Pop Can: Popular Culture in Canada (Prentice-Hall, 1999), and edited the Everyman Paperback edition of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady. She has also published numerous articles. Her multi-authored book Biotechnological Imaginings: From Science Fiction to Social Fact is currently under review, and she is presently at work on a new study, with co-author Bruce Tucker, on Post 9/11 America.
Professor Walton's talk is entitled "Drawing the lines from 9/11: Postmodern Finance and Figures."
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