Thomas Gerry

Full Professor


705.675.1151 ext. 6708
110
Barrie Campus

Tom Gerry is teaching in the Laurentian University program in Barrie, Ontario. He teaches courses in Canadian literature, Canadian thought and culture, literary and critical theory, as well as a survey course in British literature.

Gerry received his Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of Western Ontario; supervised by James Reaney, his thesis is entitled David Willson (1778-1866): Canadian Visionary Writer and Hymnodist. After five years of temporary appointments at universities in Edmonton, Peterborough and Wolfville, Gerry began his career at Laurentian University in 1988. He was appointed Full Professor in 1999.

Gerry has been awarded various grants for research work in China, England and Spain.

In 1993 Gerry published Contemporary Canadian and U.S. Women of Letters with New York's Garland Press. From 1996 to 2000 he edited Arachne, a bilingual interdisciplinary journal of language and literature, published at Laurentian University. In 2001, his poem "In the Fu Chiang River Valley" won first prize in the Sudbury Writers Guild's annual contest. He has published numerous poems, articles and book reviews. His article "I Sing My Sorrow and I Paint My Joy': Joni Mitchell's Songs and Images" was published in Queen's Quarterly (Summer 2011). In March 2013, Scrivener Press published Mercedes Luanco's book, The Story of an Encounter:Painting My New Way. Along with Laurentian colleague Jorge Virchez, Gerry translated and edited this exciting text. And most recently, in May 2013, his book The Emblems of James Reaney was published by Porcupine's Quill.