Eleanor Ty

Eleanor Ty works on Asian American and Asian Canadian literature and film, life writing, graphic novel, Canadian literature and Eighteenth Century British novels. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Canada Research Chair, 2018–2019, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[2] She was awarded University Research Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2015.[3]

She has published eleven books: two edited collections on memory studies, five books on Asian American and Asian Canadian Studies, and four on Eighteenth-Century British literature. Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority won the APALA: Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association award for Adult Non-Fiction book in Literature for 2017.[4] Her co-edited book, Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography, received an honorable mention in the literature category in 2008 from The Association for Asian American Studies.[5][6] Her research on 18th Century revolutionary novelists, on Filipino American literature, and on women writers has often been cited by other scholars and resources.[7][8][9][10]

In 2017, Eleanor Ty served as the program co-chair with Angie Chung for the annual conference of the Association for Asian American Studies held in Portland, Oregon.[11] With James Skidmore, Eleanor Ty served as Academic Co-Convenor of Congress for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2012 held in Waterloo.[12]

• 2019 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada [13]
• 2018-2019 Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair,[14] University of California Santa Barbara[15]
• 2017-2018 Asianfail was the Winner of the 2017/18 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Adult Non-Fiction Category. Awarded by the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association[16]
• 2015-2016 University Research Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
• 2010 Honorable Mention: The Association for Asian American Studies Literature Book Award for 2008
• 2008 Aid to Scholarly Publications Grant
• 1994 Unsex’d Revolutionaries Short-listed for the 1994 Raymond Klibansky Book Prize in English
• 1993 Aid to Scholarly Publications Grant

Books authored :

• Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2017
• Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010
• The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives.Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004
• Empowering the Feminine: The Narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796-1812. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998
• Unsex’d Revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists of the 1790s. Theory and Culture Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993

Books/Journals edited:

• Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022.
• Migration, Exile and Diaspora in Graphic Life Narratives. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies[17] (Co-edited with Candida Rifkind and Nima Naghibi). Spring 2020.
• Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory (Co-edited with Cynthia Sugars.) Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2014
• The Memory Effect: The Remediation of Memory in Literature and Film (Co-edited with Russell J.A. Kilbourn). Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013
• Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography (Co-edited with Christl Verduyn). Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008
• Asian North American Identities Beyond the Hyphen (Co-edited with Donald Goellnicht). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004
• Memoirs of Emma Courtney by Mary Hays (1796)(Ed.). Oxford: Oxford World's Classics, 1996. xlv + 220 pp. 2nd ed., 2000
• The Victim of Prejudice by Mary Hays (1799)(Ed.). Peterborough and Lewiston, N.Y.: Broadview Press, 1994. xxxviii + 198pp. 2nd ed., 1998

Chapters in books : (Selected)

• Social Issues in Three 21st Century Texts About Growing up Canadian, in "Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien" ZKS, 68, Wißner, Augsburg 2018 ISSN 0944-7008 pp 103 – 113
• "(East and Southeast) Asian Canadian Literature: The Strange and the Familiar." The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. Ed. Cynthia Sugars. 564–582. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016
• "Contemporary Filipino American Writers and the Legacy of Imperialism." Chapter 21 of Cambridge History of Asian American Literature. Eds. Rajini Srikanth and Min Song. 371–386. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015
• "Revising the Romance of the Land: Place in Settler Narratives by Contemporary Asian Canadian Writers." The Canadian Mosaic in the Age of Transnationalism. Ed. Brigitte Glaser and Jutta Ernst. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2010. 163-178
• "A Filipino Prufrock in an Alien Land: Bienvenido Santos’ The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor." Lit: Literature, Interpretation, Theory. Special Issue on Asian American Literature and Culture. Ed. Karen Chow. 12.3 (Summer 2001): 267-283