Gwendolyn Davies has taught at the Université de Bordeaux 111, Mount Allison University, and Acadia University and is now Emerita Professor of English & Emerita Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of New Brunswick. Her research and publications include six authored/edited/co-edited books and over sixty book chapters and articles focusing primarily on 18th and 19th-century Maritime Provinces Literature. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she is currently working on projects on literary women in the Maritimes in the late 18thc and 19thc centuries and on an edition of Walter Bates’ 1817 The Mysterious Stranger.