Research Projects
'Only a Rough-Neck Woman': The Lives and Times of Agnes C. Laut. A literary biography based on the life and works of Agnes C. Laut (1871-1936). This 550 page manuscript was submitted to the University of Alberta Press . Revisions are now in process. Funded by SSHRC Research Grant for New Faculty (1999)
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Portrait of Agnes C. Laut and the cover of Through our Unknown Southwest by Agnes C. Laut
Wayfaring Woman: Agnes C. Laut's Selected Letters. From more than 50 archives throughout Canada , the United States and Britain , I have collected hundreds of professional and personal letters that Laut wrote between 1898 and 1936. Most of the correspondence documents her extensive involvement with the publishing industry in the United States, her activities in the American conservation and National Parks movement, her international travels and her social work activities involving child labour in the United States and Mexico. To be published by the University of Alberta Press.
Photograph of Agnes C. Laut in the Olympic Mountains
My Marie Project A creative response (mix of poetry and prose) to the letters of Marie of the Incarnation (1599-1672).