En263: Canada Then

**Date**:May 23, 2025

**Location**: Waterloo, CA

**Company**:Wilfrid Laurier University

**Faculty/Academic Area**: Faculty of Arts

**Department**: English and Film Studies

**Campus**: Waterloo

**Employee Group**: WLUFA

**Requisition ID**:9562

**Position Title**: EN263: Canada Then - Exploring Canadian Literature

**Term**: Winter 2026

**Days/Times**: Tues./Thurs. 8:30 - 9:50am

**Hours per week/Hours Total**: 3 / 36

**Type of Course**:In-Person

**Anticipated Class Size**: 55

**Additional Course Requirements**: n/a

**Posted on**: May 23, 2025

**Posting ends**: June 7, 2025

**Position Summary**:
This course offers a survey of the contexts and development of Canadian literature starting from early texts of encounter between Indigenous peoples and Europeans, to works produced through the end of the Second World War. Texts may include exploration writing, Indigenous oral culture, poetry, performance works, journalism, and fiction. Students explore how and where Canadian literature emerged, the challenges of defining Canadian Literature in the period before Confederation, and the development of modernism in Canada.

**Qualifications - Required**: MA

**Qualifications - Discipline**: English

**Qualifications - Areas of Specialization**:
**Qualifications - Other**: Experience teaching at the University level

**Application Deadline**: June 7, 2025

**Submit with Application**:
**Required for All Applicants
- CV (required)

Required for External Applicants
- Names and Contact Information for Referees
- Evidence of Good Teaching
- Verification of highest degree

Optional
- Cover Letter
- Teaching Dossier
- Sample Course Outline (2-pages maximum)

**Applications may be addressed to**:
Dr. Markus Poetzsch

Chair, English and Film Studies

**To Apply**:
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