Dr. Pam Perkins

Biography

Pam Perkins is a distinguished professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Manitoba. She completed her doctorate in English at Dalhousie University and subsequently secured a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Cambridge University, focusing on radical fiction from the 1790s. At the University of Manitoba, she has developed a strong interest in scholarly editing and has published editions of five novels, novellas, and four travel journals. Her teaching interests encompass general surveys of literature from the long eighteenth century and include focused courses on individual authors such as Jane Austen and Robert Louis Stevenson, along with special topics related to ghost stories, the Arctic, and media cultures of the 18th and 19th centuries. Her current research revolves around the landscapes of travel writing in the North Atlantic Rim, which includes places like Orkney, Shetland, Iceland, and Newfoundland from the 18th to 19th centuries. Her work has led to the publication of articles, including a selection from the late 1820s journals of Newfoundland’s governor, Sir Thomas Cochrane, as well as a co-edited collection of travelogues and numerous conference papers. She also serves as a board member for the Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society, venturing into the realms of 18th-century and Romantic-era women's writing, Scottish writing, and women's book history.

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