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Donna Coates
Associate Professor Emerita - English
+1 (403) 220-4684
Social Sciences 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
Not currently teaching any courses.
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
.
Writing Alberta: Building a Literary Identity.
Calgary:
University of Calgary Press
, 2017. Print.
Coates, Donna
.
Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre
Calgary:
University of Calgary Press
, 2015. Print.
Coates, Donna
and Grace, Sherrill, ed.
.
Canada and the Theatre of War. Volume II.
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.
Playwrights Canada Press, 2008. Print.
Book Chapter
Coates, Donna
.
"
Fin de Siècle Lunacy in Fred Stenson's
The Great Karoo
"
Writing Alberta: Building a Literary Identity.
Ed.
Coates, Donna
Calgary:
University of Calgary Press
, 2017. 223-47. Print.
Coates, Donna
.
"
Realist Fiction since 1950: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific.
"
The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific since 1950
Ed.
Coral Ann Howells and Paul Sharrad
Oxford University Press, 2017. 159-74. Print.
Coates, Donna
.
"
Les Romancieres Canadiennes de la Grande Guerre et Leurs Heroines Meconnues
"
Le Canada et la France dans La Grande Guerre 1914-1918
Ed.
Serge Joyal and Serge Berier, eds.
Ottawa: Art Global, 2017. 321-41. Print.
Coates, Donna
.
"
'How War Changes Everything' in Timothy Findley's "Stones" and Alistair MacLeod's
Remembrance
"
Canada in Short: Contemporary Canada in Short Fiction
Ed.
Vesna Lopicic, Eds
Belgrade: University of Belgrade and the Serbian Association for Canadian Studies, 2017. 49-64. Print.
Coates, Donna
.
"
No Peace in Silence: The Return of the Traumatized Great War Soldier in Francis Itani's 'Tell' (Forthcoming 2016)
"
Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War: That Better Whiles May Follow Worse
Ed.
Coates, Donna
, Cris Pividori and David Owen
Amsterdam: Rodopi/Brill, 2016. 49-64. Print.
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., 2011. 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
Ed.
MacKay, Marina
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 149-162. Print.
Coates, Donna
.
"
"Lost in Translation: Deepa Mehta's Earth"
"
Violence and Transgression in World Minority Literature
Ed.
Herrera-Sobek, R. Ahrens M., Ikas, K. and Lomeli, F.
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
Ed.
Monnickendam, Andrew
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
Ed.
Uricchio, William and Kinebrock, Susanne
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
Ed.
Quinn, Patrick J. and Trout, Steven
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)
Ed.
Tylee, C. and Athfield, R.
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
.
"
Happy is the Land that Needs No Heroes
"
.
Anglica: An International Journal of English Studies
27.3 (2018): 111-142. Print.
Coates, Donna
, Jelena Novakovce, Slobodan Pajovic and Vladimir Gvozden
.
"
"Killer Canucks: The Role of Aboriginal Epistemology in Joseph Boyden's Great War Novel
Three Day Road
."
"
. (Re)Connecting Through Diversity: Canadian Perspectives
, (2011): 23-41. 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".
"
. Journal of the European Association of Studies on Australia
2.1 (2011): 123-141. Print.
Coates, Donna
.
"
"'Disturbers of the Peace': Lynda Van Devanter's
Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam
and W.D.Ehrart's
Passing Time
: Memoirs of a Vietnam Veteran Against the War."
"
. Brno Studies in English
36.2 (2010): 21-38. 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.
Courses
Degrees
PhD
University of Calgary
MA
University of Calgary
BA
University of Saskatchewan
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