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Ella Ophir is an Associate Professor in the College of Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from Simon Fraser University, as well as a Master's degree and a Ph.D. from Queen's University. Her research interests center on British and American modernist literature, encompassing modernist fiction, poetry, documentary, life writing, and women's writing. Ophir has published essays in reputable journals such as Modern Language Review, Twentieth-Century Literature, and Modern Fiction Studies. Her recent scholarly work on life writing has appeared in Woolf Studies Annual and Biography. She is involved in a critical edition of the diary 'Notes from a Woman Alone', which documents the life of a London employment agency clerk during 1914-1934 and has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada as part of the Modernist Networks digital projects consortium. Ophir is currently engaged in exploring the contemporary writing of Rachel Cusk, notably her innovative approaches to memoir and the novel, and has co-edited a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies entitled 'Modernist Legacies / Contemporary Women', scheduled for publication in July 2025.
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