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Donna Coates
Associate Professor
+1 (403) 220-4684
SS 1130
dcoates@ucalgary.ca
Research Interests
Australian, Canadian, New Zealand war writing, especially women's
Canadian and Australian literature
contemporary Canadian Drama
post-colonial literatures
Currently Teaching
F2012 - ENGL 237 - Fundamentals Of Literary Studies: Drama
Details
LEC 1
MW 15:30 - 16:45
ST 126
Notes: RESTRICTED TO FIRST YEAR STUDENTS UNTIL JULY 21/11.
F2012 - ENGL 603.18 - Studies in Genre
Details
LEC 2
W 12:00 - 14:45
SS 1015
W2013 - ENGL 384.4 - Topic in Women's Literature
Details
LEC 1
TR 15:30 - 16:45
ST 128
W2013 - ENGL 473 - Canadian Literature since 1950
Details
LEC 1
TR 12:30 - 13:45
SS 010
view past courses
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.
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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.
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Canada and the Theatre of War. Volume I.
Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2008. Print.
Book Chapter
Coates, Donna
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"`When the World Is Free': Traumatized Soldiers in Patricia Grace's Second World War Novel Tu."
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The Splintered Glass: Facets of Trauma in the Post-Colony and Beyond.
London: Editions Rodopi B. V. (to appear), Print.
Coates, Donna
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'(Not) For God, King, and Country': Australian, Canadian and New Zealand Fictional Responses to the Second World War'
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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 149-162. Print.
Coates, Donna
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"Lost in Translation: Deepa Mehta's Earth"
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Violence and Transgression in World Minority Literature
Heidelberg: Anglistische Forschungen, 2005. 363-380. Print.
Coates, Donna
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"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"
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Back to Peace, Recrimination and Reconciliation in the Afterwar Period
Barcelona: Notre Dame Press, 2005. 299-327. Print.
Coates, Donna
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"The Role of the Media in the Construction and Deconstruction of War Heroes in Canada"
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Media Cultures
Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2005. 221-236. Print.
Coates, Donna
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"Myrmidons to Insubordinates: Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian Women's Great War Fictions"
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Beyond Modern Memory: The Literature of the Great War Reconsidered
London: Palgrave, 2001. 150-194. Print.
Coates, Donna
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"Pot Shots to Parting Shots: Wendy Lill's The Fighting Days"
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Women, the First World War and the Dramatic Imagination: International Essays (1914-1999)
Lampeter, Wales: Edward Mellen Press, 2000. 171-90. Print.
Encyclopaedia Entry
Coates, Donna
.
"War Literature" in Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada.
2002.
Coates, Donna
.
Biographical entry on Emily Murphy
1990.
Journal Article
Coates, Donna
.
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"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
.
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"`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
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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
.
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. Antipodes
June 2009. (2009): 49-55. Print.
Coates, Donna
.
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Country Matters in The Little (Southern Steel) Company.
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. LiNQ (Literature in Northern Queensland)
35. (2008). Print.
Coates, Donna
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Coming Home: The Return of the (Australian Vietnam War) Soldier in Fictions by Marian Eldridge, Georgia Savage, Gabrielle Lord, Dymphna Cusack, and Finola Moorhead.
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. Southerly
65.2 (2005). Print.
Coates, Donna
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(Not) Talking Back: Australian Women Novelists Lose the Great (Linguistic) War
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. Australian Studies
18.2 (2003): 179-206. Print.
Coates, Donna
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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
.
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Damn(ed) Yankees: The Pacific's Not Pacific Anymore
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. Antipodes
, (2001): 123-29. Print.
Coates, Donna
.
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Guns 'n' Roses: Mollie Skinner's Intrepid Great War Fictions
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. Southerly
, (1999): 105-122. Print.
Coates, Donna
.
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The Best Soldiers of All: Unsung Heroines in Canadian Women's Great War Fictions
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. Canadian Literature
151. (1996): 66-99. Print.
Coates, Donna
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Harford's Homefront Warrior and Women's World War One Fictions.
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. Australian Literary Studies
May 1995.17 (1995): 17-26. Print.
Coates, Donna
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The Digger on the Lofty Pedestal: Australian Women's Fictions of the Great War
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. Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada
10. (1993): 1-22. Print.
Courses
Degrees
B.A. - University of Saskatchewan
M.A. - University of Calgary
Ph.D. - University of Calgary
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