Eleanor Ty Explained

Occupation:Professor
Nationality:Canadian
Birth Place:Manila, Philippines
Notablework: Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority

Eleanor Rose Ty, FRSC, is a Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.[1] She holds a PhD and MA in English from McMaster University, and a BA Hons from the University of Toronto.

Career

Eleanor Ty works on Asian American and Asian Canadian literature and film, life writing, graphic novel, Canadian literature and Eighteenth Century British novels. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Canada Research Chair, 2018–2019, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[2] She was awarded University Research Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2015.[3]

She has published twelve books: two edited collections on memory studies, six books on Asian American and Asian Canadian Studies, and four on Eighteenth-Century British literature. Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives was awarded the 2022 Prize for Edited Book Collection by the Comics Studies Society.[4] Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority won the APALA: Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association award for Adult Non-Fiction book in Literature for 2017.[5] Her co-edited book, Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography, received an honorable mention in the literature category in 2008 from The Association for Asian American Studies.[6] [7] Her research on 18th Century revolutionary novelists, on Filipino American literature, and on women writers has often been cited by other scholars and resources.[8] [9] [10] [11]

In 2017, Eleanor Ty served as the program co-chair with Angie Chung for the annual conference of the Association for Asian American Studies held in Portland, Oregon.[12] With James Skidmore, Eleanor Ty served as Academic Co-Convenor of Congress for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2012 held in Waterloo.[13]

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Notes and References

  1. https://wlu.ca/academics/faculties/faculty-of-arts/faculty-profiles/eleanor-ty/index.html Wilfrid Laurier University
  2. http://www.fulbright.ca/programs/canadian-scholars/recent-grantees.html Eleanor Ty is the recipient of a Fulbright Canada Research Chair, Field Open, to the United States
  3. Web site: Eleanor Ty was awarded as 2015-2016 University Research Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University . 2017-08-14 . 2019-06-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190622060550/https://www.wlu.ca/academics/research/news/2016/eleanor-ty-named-laurier-2015-16-university-research-professor.html . dead .
  4. https://comicsstudies.org/prizes/past-winners/
  5. http://www.apalaweb.org/2017-2018-awards-winners/ APALA Literature Award Winners 2017-2018
  6. Web site: Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography received literature award in 2008 from The Association for Asian American Studies . 2017-08-14 . 2017-03-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170314170826/http://aaastudies.org/awards-winners/ . dead .
  7. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/400932/summary Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography received honorable mention in 2010
  8. [Hermsprong|''Unsex'd Revolutionaries'' has been listed as a reference for Robert Bage's Hermsprong.]
  9. [Cecilia Manguerra Brainard|''The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives'' has been listed as a reference for Cecilia Manguerra Brainard.]
  10. [The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor|Her article, "A Filipino Prufrock in an Alien Land: Bienvenido Santos's The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor" has been listed as a reference for Bienvenido Santos' Robert Taylor.]
  11. [The Victim of Prejudice'|'The Victim of Prejudice'' ''Her edition of Mary Hays is the first modern edition of the novel.]
  12. http://aaastudies.org/ AAAS conferences
  13. https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/canadas-largest-academic-conference-infuse-7-million Canada's largest academic conference in Waterloo
  14. Web site: Fellows | the Royal Society of Canada.
  15. Web site: Fulbright Canada.
  16. Web site: University of California Santa Barbara.
  17. Web site: APALA. APALA.
  18. News: A/B: Auto/Biography Studies. Taylor & Francis.