The Editors : Gunilla Florby is Professor of English Literature at Gothenburg University, Göteborg, Sweden. Her research interests are Renaissance drama and poetry, postmodernist and postcolonial theory, and contemporary North American writers. Her publications on Canadian fiction include a study of Margaret Laurence and Robert Kroetsch. Mark Shackleton is currently University Lecturer and Docent at the Department of English, University of Helsinki, and is Director of the University of Helsinki project "Cross-Cultural Contacts : Diaspora Writing in English".
He has published widely on postcolonial writing, particularly on Native North American writers. Katri Suhonen is currently Lecturer at the Département d'études françaises, Concordia University (Montreal). She works on French Canadian contemporary literature and has recently published an essay on masculine identity in Quebec women's writing. Her current research projects analyse the symbolism of winter in the Quebec novel and the mechanisms of coherence in the prose of Marie-Claire Blais.