{"id":112,"date":"2021-02-22T17:19:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T00:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/whnew\/?page_id=112"},"modified":"2021-05-17T18:40:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T01:40:56","slug":"biographical-note","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/whnew\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Biographical Note<\/h3>\n<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-222 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/whnew\/files\/2021\/05\/WHNew-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/whnew\/files\/2021\/05\/WHNew-2021.jpg 238w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/whnew\/files\/2021\/05\/WHNew-2021-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:wnew@mail.ubc.ca\"><em><strong>William H. New<\/strong><\/em><\/a><strong>, OC, FRSC<\/strong>, is a literary critic, editor, anthologist, poet, and children\u2019s writer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Born:<\/strong> Vancouver, British Columbia, 1938.\u00a0 Married, two children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education:<\/strong> B.Ed., Geography and English (1961), University of British Columbia; M.A., English (1963), University of British Columbia; Ph.D., English (1966) University of Leeds, dissertation on the twentieth-century <em>Bildungsroman.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching career:<\/strong> English Department, University of British Columbia (1965-2003), with specialization in Canadian and Commonwealth\/Postcolonial Literatures; named University Killam Professor in 2001; Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies, UBC (1995-97); current position: University Killam Professor Emeritus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:wnew@mail.ubc.ca\"><strong>wnew@mail.ubc.ca<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Invited lectureships include:<\/strong> MacDonald-Currie Lecturer (McGill University, 1990); Brooks Lecturer (University of Queensland, 1990); Visiting Professor (Nankai University, 1998); U Ottawa visiting professor (graduate seminars, 1993); France-Canada cultural exchange program (<em>Agr\u00e9gation <\/em>lectures, 1982); Canadian lectures in India, sponsored by Dept of External Affairs (1977).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Editorial posts:<\/strong> Editor, <em>Canadian Literature <\/em>(1977-95; Asst\/Assoc Editor 1966-77) [ see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canlit.ca\/\">http:\/\/www.canlit.ca\/<\/a> ]; Advisory Board, New Canadian Library (1988-date); member of advisory or editorial boards of the Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts project (1980 ff.), <em>Canadian Encyclopedia<\/em> (1980-83), <em>Ariel<\/em> (1981-88), <em>Commonwealth<\/em> (1983-2006), Klein Project (1989ff.), Smithsonian Institute Studies in Native American texts series, <em>Twentieth Century Literature<\/em>(l971ff.); \u00a0Assoc. Ed. for Canada, <em>World Literature Written in English<\/em> (MLA) (1971\u201190); <em>Australia and N.Z. Studies in Canada<\/em> (1988ff), <em>Short Story<\/em> (1988-date), <em>Journal of Caribbean Literatures<\/em>(1995-date), <em>Jianada Dipingxian<\/em> (1995-date), <em>Canadaria <\/em>[Tenerife] (2007ff); History of the Book Project (2001-07).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Other (Academic):<\/strong> Assistant Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies, UBC (1975-77); Associate, Clare Hall, Cambridge (1971)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Other (Community) activities include:<\/strong> jury, Governor General\u2019s Prize (1976-78, 1987-89 [chair, 1988]); jury, Commonwealth Writers\u2019 Prizes (1984-5 [chair], 1989, 1996); jury, Macdonald Prize (1995-97); Giller Prize jury (2002); Ethel Wilson Prize jury (2003); Charles Taylor Prize jury (2004-06); Council member, Vancouver Institute.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Published critical works include:<\/strong> studies of the modern postcolonial novel (<em>Articulating West; Among Worlds<\/em>), books about\u00a0 space and place in literature (<em>Land Sliding<\/em>; <em>Borderlands<\/em>), books about the history, structure, and social contexts of short fiction (<em>Dreams of Speech and Violence; Reading Mansfield and Metaphors of Form; Tropes and Territories<\/em>), literary history (<em>A History of Canadian Literature<\/em>); reference works (<em>Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada<\/em>); studies of irony (<em>Grandchild of Empire<\/em>); and over 400 <a href=\"file:\/\/\/Users\/english\/Downloads\/whnew\/essays.htm\">essays and reviews<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Creative works include:<\/strong> several volumes of poetry, among them <em>Science Lessons<\/em>;<em> Stone\/Rain<\/em>;<em>Riverbook &amp; Ocean<\/em>;<em> Underwood Log <\/em>(shortlisted for a Governor General\u2019s Award); <em>YVR <\/em>(City of Vancouver Book Award, 2012) and <em>Touching Ecuador<\/em>; and five books for children, among them <em>Vanilla Gorilla <\/em>and <em>Dream Helmet <\/em>(both illustrated by Vivian Bevis); and <em>The Year I Was Grounded.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Anthologies include:<\/strong> <em>Modern Stories in English <\/em>(with H.J. Rosengarten); <em>Active Voice <\/em>and <em>Literature in English <\/em>(both with W.E. Messenger); <em>Currents <\/em>(with Kevin McNeilly, Noel Currie, and W.E. Messenger); <em>Canadian Short Fiction<\/em>; <em>Inside the Poem<\/em>; and <em>Native Writers and Canadian Writing.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Awards and Prizes:<\/strong> Doctor of Science, <em>honoris causa<\/em>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/graduation.ubc.ca\/event\/honorary-degrees\/2019-honorary-degree-recipients\/william-h-new-o-c-citation\/\">2019<\/a>); Mayor&#8217;s Arts Award for the Literary Arts (2012); City of Vancouver Book Award (2012); Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Medal (2012); Officer of the Order of Canada (2006), Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1986); Governor General\u2019s Award for International Canadian Studies (2004); Lorne Pierce Medal of the Royal Society of Canada (2004); CUFA (BC) Career Achievement Award (2001); Jacob Biely Research Prize (1994); Association of Canadian Studies Award of Merit (2000); Gabrielle Roy Prize (1989); Killam Teaching Prize (1996); Maxwell Cameron Medal (1961).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biographical Note William H. New, OC, FRSC, is a literary critic, editor, anthologist, poet, and children\u2019s writer. Born: Vancouver, British Columbia, 1938.\u00a0 Married, two children. Education: B.Ed., Geography and English (1961), University of British Columbia; M.A., English (1963), University of British Columbia; Ph.D., English (1966) University of Leeds, dissertation on the twentieth-century Bildungsroman. 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