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lsteven@laurentian.ca
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My primary area of research and teaching is 20th century literature and the intersections of literature, rhetoric, ethics, and philosophical hermeneutics. My special interests include representations of cultural encounter, the work of D. H. Lawrence in a variety of genres, and the literary culture of northeastern Ontario. I am publisher and editor of Your Scrivener Press, a regional small press with a mandate to serve the writers and readers of northeastern Ontario (www.yourscrivenerpress.com). In addition to teaching in the Interdisciplinary Humanities M.A. in Interpretation and Values, I teach in the English Department and in Laurentian’s Human Studies PhD program.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Books (Authored and Edited)
L. Steven, ed. Bluffs: Northeastern Ontario Stories from the Edge (Sudbury: Your Scrivener P, 2006), 231 pp.
L. Steven, ed. Outcrops: Northeastern Ontario Short Stories. (Sudbury: Your Scrivener P, 2005), 224 pp.
L. Steven, D.H. Parker. From Reading to Writing: a Reader and Rhetoric 2nd ed. (Scarborough: Prentice-Hall, 1999), 239pp.
C. Schryer, L. Steven, eds. Contextual Literacy: Writing Across the Curriculum. Winnipeg: Inkshed, 1994. 177pp.
Dissociation and Wholeness in Patrick White's Fiction (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 1989), 163pp.
Articles and Chapters
“The Intervening Memory in Alistair MacLeod’s ‘As Birds Bring Forth the Sun’” WindsorReview 43. 1 (Spring, 2010): 107-119.
"The Third Realm: Kairos. Revision, and the Ethics of Literary Study,” in Ian Cooper, Ekkehard Knörer and Bernhard Malkmus, eds. Third Agents: Secret Protagonists of the Modern Imagination. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2008. pp. 20-40
"Revising 'The Spirit of Place."' Études Lawrenciennes 38 (Fall 2008): 231-255.
“Transculturation in George Elliott Clarke’s Whylah Falls: or, When is it Appropriate to Appropriate?” in Norman Cheadle and Lucien Pelletier, eds. Canadian Cultural Exchange. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2007. pp. 99-119.
“Deskilling English: Theory, Cynicism, and Ethics,” in Philip W. Martin ed. English: The Condition of the Subject. London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006. pp.108-117.
“‘Coming Through’ into the ‘Thick of the Scrimmage’: Lawrence, Revision, and the Boundaries of Genre,” in Simonetta de Filippis and Nick Ceramella eds., D. H. Lawrence and Literary Genres. Naples: Loffredo Editore, 2004, pp. 81-92.
“Welwyn Wilton Katz and Charles de Lint: New Fantasy as a Canadian Post-colonial Genre.” Worlds of Wonder: Readings in Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. Ed. Jean-François Leroux and Camille R. La Bossiére. Ottawa: U of Ottawa P., 2004. 57-73.
“Narrative Ethics as Relational Experience: Why Nussbaum Needs Lawrence,” Journal of Contemporary Thought 14 (Winter 2001): 13-39.
"Beyond the Cure-all/Scapegoat Axis: The English Department and WAC," in C. Schryer and L. Steven, eds. Contextual Literacy: Writing Across the Curriculum. Winnipeg: Inkshed, 1994, pp. 117-127.
"The Grain of Sand in the Oyster: Competency Testing as a Catalyst for Attitude Change at the University" Textual Studies in Canada 1 (1991), 115-144.