Barbara Belyea

I worked at the University of Calgary 1976-2006, teaching in the Comparative Literature and Humanities programmes as well as in the English department. During this time my research segued from medieval literature to documents of the fur trade and eighteenth-century exploration: the continuous theme was an interest in manuscript edition. Since resigning from my full-time position I have pursued several other interests. But I still read and write.

BOOKS
Belyea, Barbara and Estelle Dansereau, eds. Driving Home: a dialogue between writers and readers. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1984.

David Thompson. Columbia Journals, ed. Barbara Belyea. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1993.
joint publication. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994.
second printing 1998.
second edition 2007.

Belyea, Barbara, ed. A Year Inland. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000.
winner, Manitoba Historical Society award for best scholarly book 2001.

Belyea, Barbara. The Reader’s Toolbox: a guide for students of literature. Victoria: Marin Press, 2001.
out of print (run exhausted)

Belyea, Barbara. Dark Storm Moving West. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007.
finalist, Alberta Book Publishing Awards
finalist, Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize

SELECTED ARTICLES
“Mackenzie meets Moodie at the Great Divide.” Journal of Canadian Studies 23 no. 3 (Autumn 1988): 118-29.

 “Captain Franklin in Search of the Picturesque.” Essays on Canadian Writing 40 (Spring 1990): 1-24.

 “The ‘Columbian Enterprise’ and A. S. Morton: a historical exemplum.” BC Studies 86 (Summer 1990): 3-27.

 “Amerindian Maps: the Explorer as Translator.” Journal of Historical Geography 18, no. 3 (1992): 267-77.

“Images of Power: Derrida, Foucault, Harley.” Cartographica 29 no. 2 (Summer 1992): 1-9.
republication, Geomatica 49 no. 1 (1995): 21-30
distribution at the 17th international cartographic conference /10th General Assembly of the International Cartographic Association, Barcelona, September 1995.

“Sea of Dreams: La Vérendrye and the mapping of desire.” Australian-Canadian Studies 12 no. 2 (1994): 15-27.

 “Inland Journals, Native Maps.” Cartographica 33 no. 2 (Summer 1996): 1-16.
republication in Cartographic Encounters, ed. G. Malcolm Lewis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998

“Mapping the Marias.” Great Plains Quarterly 17 (Summer-Fall 1997): 165-84.
republication in Barbara Belyea, Dark Storm Moving West (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007): 31-49.

 
BOOK CHAPTERS:
“Anthony Henday.” Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, ed. David Wishart. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

 “David Thompson.” Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, ed. David Wishart. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

 “North American Native Maps.” Oxford Companion to World Exploration, ed. David Buisseret. 2 vols. New York: Oxford, 2007.

 “North American Native Guides.” Oxford Companion to World Exploration, ed. David Buisseret. 2 vols. New York: Oxford, 2007.

“Native Societies and French Colonization.” Cambridge History of Canadian Literature, ed. Eva-Marie Kröller and Coral-Ann Howells. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2009.

“Butterfly in the Bush Garden.” Northrop Frye’s Canadian Literary Criticism and its Influence, ed. Brank Gorjup. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
republication of an article in Dalhousie Review 56 no.2 (Summer 1976): 336-45.

“Hudson’s Bay Company Cartographers, 1700-1820.” Cartography in the Age of Enlightenment, ed. Matthew Edney and Mary Pedley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

TRANSLATIONS FOR ELLIPSE
Michèle Lalonde, Ellipse 3 (spring 1970): 16-17.

Jacques Brault, Ellipse 6 (winter 1971): 54-58.

Gilbert Langevin, Ellipse 13 (1973): 16-17.

Gilles Hénault, Ellipse 18 (1976): 16-21.

Michel Garneau, Ellipse 27/28 (1981): 20-25.

Medjé Vézina, Ellipse 35 (1986): 32-33.

Michel Beaulieu, Ellipse 36 (1986): 94-95.

Saint-Denys Garneau, Ellipse 37 (1987): 22-23, 36-37.

Albert Lozeau, Ellipse 38 (1987): 16-17, 42-43.

Louise Cotnoir, Ellipse 39 (1988): 26-27.

Anne Hébert, Ellipse 40 (1988): 56-57.

Denise Desautels, Ellipse 43 (1990): 42-43.

Carole Massé, Ellipse 44 (1990): 56-59.

Alexis Lefrançois, Ellipse 46 (1991): 24-25

Anne Hébert, Ellipse 50 (1993): 10-13.

Yves Préfontaine, Ellipse 52 (1994): 38-39, 50-51.

Nicole Brossard, Ellipse 53 (1995): 46-47.

Fulvio Caccia, Ellipse 54 (1995): 22-25, 28-29.

RECENT REVIEWS

Mapping in Michigan and the Great Lakes Region. ed. David Macleod (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2007) in Canadian Historical Review 90 no. 1 (March 2009): 168-70.

Podruchny, Carolyn. Making the Voyageur World: travelers and traders in the North American fur trade (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006) in University of Toronto Quarterly 78 no. 1 (Winter 2009): 280-281.

Short, John Rennie. Cartographic Encounters: indigenous peoples and the exploration of the New World (London: Reaktion Books, 2009) in Imago Mundi, 62 no. 2 (2010): 147-8.

Nicandri, David L. River of Promise: Lewis and Clark on the Columbia (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010) in Pacific Historical Review 80 no. 3 (August 2011): 471-72.

Moreau, William, ed. The Writings of David Thompson (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008) in University of Toronto Quarterly 80 no. 2 (Spring 2012), forthcoming.

BOOKS IN PREPARATION

The Shore Book: the Journal of Eléanor de Lapérouse, translation by Marie-Claude Evreux, annotation by Barbara Belyea. 

From York Factory to the Rocky Mountains: Peter Fidler’s Saskatchewan River Journals, 1792-1796, ed. Barbara Belyea.