Eleanor Ty | |
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 Eleanor Rose Ty | |
| Born | Manila, Philippines |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Notable work | Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority |
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Eleanor Rose Ty, FRSC, is a Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. [1] She holds a PhD and MA in English from McMaster University, and a BA Hons from the University of Toronto.
Eleanor Ty works on Asian American and Asian Canadian literature and film, life writing, graphic novel, Canadian literature and Eighteenth Century British novels. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Canada Research Chair, 2018–2019, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. [2] She was awarded University Research Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2015. [3]
She has published twelve books: two edited collections on memory studies, six books on Asian American and Asian Canadian Studies, and four on Eighteenth-Century British literature. Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives was awarded the 2022 Prize for Edited Book Collection by the Comics Studies Society. [4] Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority won the APALA: Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association award for Adult Non-Fiction book in Literature for 2017. [5] Her co-edited book, Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography, received an honorable mention in the literature category in 2008 from The Association for Asian American Studies. [6] [7] Her research on 18th Century revolutionary novelists, on Filipino American literature, and on women writers has often been cited by other scholars and resources. [8] [ circular reference ] [9] [ circular reference ] [10] [ circular reference ] [11]
In 2017, Eleanor Ty served as the program co-chair with Angie Chung for the annual conference of the Association for Asian American Studies held in Portland, Oregon. [12] With James Skidmore, Eleanor Ty served as Academic Co-Convenor of Congress for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2012 held in Waterloo. [13]
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