Suzanne Bailey
B.A. (Queen's), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Department Chair and Associated Professor
Email: sjbailey@trentu.ca
Teaching
I teach a range of courses from Victorian literature and culture to contemporary travel writing and women's writing. I have interests in Victorian and contemporary science (including photography and the work of quirky scientists like Francis Galton), aging and the life course, and the travel writing of the amazing Canadian poet, P.K. Page. What links my work is an interest in how we come to know what we know and how we can learn to see and understand the value of other stories and other perspectives. How do we balance an awareness of knowledge and its limitations with the need to act ethically and responsibly in the world?
Recent Publications
Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning's Poetry (Routledge 2010), SSHRC-funded: an examination of perceptual and cognitive differences and their relationship to artistic production, especially poetry.
Suzanne Bailey and Christopher Doody, eds. P. K. Page, Brazilian Journal. Erin Mills, Ontario: Porcupine’s Quill, 2011. Vol. 2 of The Collected Works of P.K. Page, eds. Zailig Pollock, Sandra Djwa, Dean Irvine.
Gold medalist, 2011 ForeWord Reviews (US Independent book publishers) Book of the Year Awards for Autobiography/ memoir.
“The Year’s Work in Browning.” “The Year’s Work in Victorian Poetry,” ed. Andrew Stauffer. Victorian Poetry 49.3 (2011): 30-37.
“Francis Galton’s Face Project: Morphing the Victorian Human.” Photography and Culture. 5.2 (2012): 189-214.