Janice Kulyk Keefer
Birth nameJanice Kulyk
Birth date2 June 1952 (age 74)
Birth placeToronto, Ontario
OccupationNovelist, poet
NationalityCanadian
EducationUniversity of Toronto (BA)
University of Sussex (MPhil, D.Phil)
AwardsMarian Engel Award
Kobzar Literary Award

Janice Kulyk Keefer (born 2 June 1952) is a Canadian novelist and poet. Of Ukrainian heritage, Kulyk Keefer often writes about the experiences of first-generation Canadian children of immigrants.

Biography

She was born as Janice Kulyk on 2 June 1952 in Toronto, Ontario.[1] She studied English literature at the University of Toronto, graduating with a BA.[1] She then studied at the University of Sussex, where she received an MPhil and D.Phil.[1] Following this, Keefer became an assistant professor of English studies at Université Sainte-Anne in Pointe-de-l'Église, Nova Scotia.[1] She is a specialist in Modernist literature.[1] In her literary work on Ukrainian-Canadian identity, she "rejects simplified notions of multiculturalism"[1] in preference to a Ukrainian transnational identity.[1] As of 2013, she is a professor of literature and theatre in the graduate studies department at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario.[1]

Her sister is the Canadian artist, Karen Kulyk and her son is the Decouple Podcast host Dr. Chris Keefer.

Awards and honours

Bibliography

  • White of the Lesser Angels (1986)
  • The Paris-Napoli Express (1986)
  • Transfigurations (1987)
  • Under Eastern Eyes: A Critical Reading of Maritime Fiction
  • Constellations
  • Reading Mavis Gallant (1989)
  • Travelling Ladies (1992)
  • Rest Harrow (1992)
  • The Green Library
  • Marrying the Sea (1998)
  • Kyiv, of Two Lands: New Visions (1998, anthology co-edited with Solemea Pavlychko)
  • Honey and Ashes: A Story of Family (1998)
  • The Waste Zone (2002)
  • Thieves (2004)
  • The Ladies' Lending Library (2007)
  • Foreign Relations (2010)

References

  1. ^ Ledohowski, Lindy (28 February 2012). "Janice Kulyk Keefer". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Retrieved 26 April 2021.

Further reading