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| Residence | Canada |
| Citizenship | Canadian and German |
| Fields | Modern Literature and Culture |
| Institutions | University of Prince Edward Island Ryerson University |
| Known for | - Modernism - Avantgarde - Dada - Canadian Women’s Heritage |
Irene Gammel is a literary historian, biographer, and curator. She has published numerous books including Baroness Elsa, a groundbreaking cultural biography of New York Dada artist and poet Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, and Looking for Anne of Green Gables, revealing the hidden life of Canadian author L.M. Montgomery during the writing of her classic novel Anne of Green Gables.[1] Together with Suzanne Zelazo, Gammel published Crystal Flowers: Poems and a Libretto by Florine Stettheimer, and Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, the first major English collection of the Baroness's poems.[2] Both books were selected for the New York Times’ notable art books for 2011.[3]
Gammel teaches at Ryerson University[1] in Toronto. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Modern Literature and Culture and is the Director of the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre.
Gammel holds a PhD (1992) and MA (1987) in English from McMaster University, and a Staatsexamen’s degree from the Universität des Saarlandes in Germany. She taught at the University of Prince Edward Island and held Visiting Professorships at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and Erfurt Universität in Germany. She also served as the President of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association. In 2009, she was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada.
Gammel held Visiting Professorships at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and Universität Erfurt.
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Exhibitions [link]
Irene Gammel curated Anne of Green Gables: A Literary Icon at 100, a cross-Canada centennial exhibition in 2008. With June Creelman, she curated Reflecting on Anne of Green Gables, Souvenirs d’Anne… La maison aux pignons verts at the Library and Archives Canada.
Publications [link]
Biography / Non-Fiction
Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic. Toronto: Key Porter Books and New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008.
Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity—A Cultural Biography. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.
Die Dada Baroness: Das wilde Leben der Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Berlin: Ebersbach, 2003.
Criticism
Sexualizing Power in Naturalism: Theodore Dreiser and Frederick Philip Grove. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1994.
Edited Books
Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011 (with S. Zelazo).
Crystal Flowers: Poetry and a Libretto by Florine Stettheimer. Toronto: BookThug, 2010. (with S. Zelazo)
Anne’s World: A New Century of Anne of Green Gables. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. (with B. Lefebvre)
I Got Lusting Palate: Dada Verse by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Berlin: edition ebersbach, 2005.
The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
Making Avonlea: L. M. Montgomery and Popular Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
Confessional Politics: Women's Sexual Self-Representations in Lifewriting and Popular Media. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.
L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999 (with E. Epperly).
Honors and awards [link]
2009, elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
External links [link]
- Anne of Green Gables Centenary This site includes information about the centenary anniversary of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables
- Modern Literature and Culture This site includes information about the Canada Research Chair program in Modern Literature and Culture
- Canada Research Chairs
- Looking for Anne Trailer
- Key Porter Books
- St. Martin’s Press
- Ryerson University
