- Associate Professor
University of Calgary
Department of English
Donna Coates
Research Interests
Currently Teaching
| F2012 - ENGL 237 - Fundamentals Of Literary Studies: Drama | |||||||||||||||||
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| F2012 - ENGL 603.18 - Studies in Genre | |||||||||||||||||
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| W2013 - ENGL 384.4 - Topic in Women's Literature | |||||||||||||||||
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| W2013 - ENGL 473 - Canadian Literature since 1950 | |||||||||||||||||
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Professional Description
Canadian, Australian, New Zealand war writing, especially women's;
contemporary Canadian drama; Canadian and Australian literature;
post-colonial literatures.
Publications
Book
- Coates, Donna and Grace, Sherrill, ed.. Canada and the Theatre of War. Volume II. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2010. Print.
- Coates, Donna and Melnyk, George, ed.. Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature Athabasca, 2009. Print.
- Coates, Donna and Grace, Sherrill ed.. Canada and the Theatre of War. Volume I. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2008. Print.
Book Chapter
- Coates, Donna. ""`When the World Is Free': Traumatized Soldiers in Patricia Grace's Second World War Novel Tu."" The Splintered Glass: Facets of Trauma in the Post-Colony and Beyond. London: Editions Rodopi B. V. (to appear), Print.
- Coates, Donna. "'(Not) For God, King, and Country': Australian, Canadian and New Zealand Fictional Responses to the Second World War'" The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 149-162. Print.
- Coates, Donna. ""Lost in Translation: Deepa Mehta's Earth" " Violence and Transgression in World Minority Literature Heidelberg: Anglistische Forschungen, 2005. 363-380. Print.
- Coates, Donna. ""Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye: Representations of War Brides in Canadian Fiction and Drama by Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Norah Harding, Margaret Hollingsworth, Joyce Marshall, Suzette Mayr, Aritha van Herk and Rachel Wyatt" " Back to Peace, Recrimination and Reconciliation in the Afterwar Period Barcelona: Notre Dame Press, 2005. 299-327. Print.
- Coates, Donna. ""The Role of the Media in the Construction and Deconstruction of War Heroes in Canada" " Media Cultures Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2005. 221-236. Print.
- Coates, Donna. ""Myrmidons to Insubordinates: Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian Women's Great War Fictions" " Beyond Modern Memory: The Literature of the Great War Reconsidered London: Palgrave, 2001. 150-194. Print.
- Coates, Donna. ""Pot Shots to Parting Shots: Wendy Lill's The Fighting Days" " Women, the First World War and the Dramatic Imagination: International Essays (1914-1999) Lampeter, Wales: Edward Mellen Press, 2000. 171-90. Print.
Encyclopaedia Entry
Journal Article
- Coates, Donna. ""Killer Canucks: The Role of Aboriginal Espistemology in Joseph Boyden's Great War Novel Three Day Road."". Serbian Association for Canadian Studies (to appear), Print.
- Coates, Donna. ""`All We Are Saying Is Give Peace a Chance': The Vietnam War Protest Movement in Australian Women's Fictions by Janine Burke, Patricial Cornelius, Nuri Maas, and Wendy Scarfe".". The Journal of the European Association of Studies on Australia 2.1 (2011): 123-141. Print.
- Coates, Donna. "Reality Bites: the Impact of the Second World War on the Australian Home Front in Maria Gardner's Blood Stained Wattle and Robin Sheiner's Smile, the War is Over.". Antipodes June 2009. (2009): 49-55. Print.
- Coates, Donna. "Country Matters in The Little (Southern Steel) Company.". LiNQ (Literature in Northern Queensland) 35. (2008). Print.
- Coates, Donna. "Coming Home: The Return of the (Australian Vietnam War) Soldier in Fictions by Marian Eldridge, Georgia Savage, Gabrielle Lord, Dymphna Cusack, and Finola Moorhead. ". Southerly 65.2 (2005). Print.
- Coates, Donna. "(Not) Talking Back: Australian Women Novelists Lose the Great (Linguistic) War ". Australian Studies 18.2 (2003): 179-206. Print.
- Coates, Donna. "Sleeping With the Enemy: Patriot Games in Fictions by Lesbia Harford, Gwen Kelly, and Joan Dugdale ". Journal of Commonwealth Literature 37.2 (2002): 157-73. Print.
- Coates, Donna. "Damn(ed) Yankees: The Pacific's Not Pacific Anymore ". Antipodes, (2001): 123-29. Print.
- Coates, Donna. "Guns 'n' Roses: Mollie Skinner's Intrepid Great War Fictions ". Southerly, (1999): 105-122. Print.
- Coates, Donna. "The Best Soldiers of All: Unsung Heroines in Canadian Women's Great War Fictions ". Canadian Literature 151. (1996): 66-99. Print.
- Coates, Donna. "Harford's Homefront Warrior and Women's World War One Fictions.". Australian Literary Studies May 1995.17 (1995): 17-26. Print.
- Coates, Donna. "The Digger on the Lofty Pedestal: Australian Women's Fictions of the Great War ". Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada 10. (1993): 1-22. Print.
Degrees
- B.A. - University of Saskatchewan
- M.A. - University of Calgary
- Ph.D. - University of Calgary
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