Daniela Janes

Areas of Specialization
Canadian literature, with particular interest in late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century writers; Indigenous literatures; modernism; the First World War; the short story and short story cycle; the literature of social reform

Courses Taught
ENG100H Effective Writing
ENG102H How to Research Literature
ENG110Y Narrative
ENG140Y Literature for Our Time
ENG213H The Short Story 
ENG214H The Short Story Collection
ENG215H The Canadian Short Story
ENG234H Children's Literature
ENG236H Detective Fiction
ENG252Y Canadian Literature
ENG255H Introduction to Canadian Literature
ENG274H Indigenous Literatures
ENG316H Virginia Woolf and Illness
ENG352H Canadian Drama
ENG353Y Canadian Fiction
ENG358H Canadian Literature and the Great War
ENG358H Representations of Writers and Readers in Canadian Literature
ENG390Y Individual Studies
ENG414H Seminar: Literary Theory / Methods (Critical Animal Studies)

Publications
Refereed Journal Articles 

"'The Clock is Dead': Temporality and Trauma in Rilla of Ingleside," forthcoming in Canadian Literature. 

"Liminality and the Epiphanic Spectrum in Joyce's Dubliners and Mistry's Tales from Firozsha Baag." Journal of the Short Story in English/Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle, vol. 66, 2016, pp. 237-56. 

"The Limits of the Story: Reading the Castaway Narrative in James De Mille's A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder and Yann Martel's Life of Pi." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, vol. 46, no. 4, 2013, pp. 109-25.

"Brainworkers: The Middle-Class Labour Reformer and the Late-Victorian Canadian Industrial Novel." Canadian Literature, vol. 191, 2006, pp. 70-84.

"Truth and History: Representing the Aura in The Englishman's Boy." Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 27, no. 1, 2002, pp. 88-104.

Review Articles  

"The Great War, Modernism, and the Poets of 'The Harsher Manners.'" Review of Joel Baetz, Battle Lines: Canadian Poetry in English and the First World War. Canadian Poetry, vol. 84 & 85, 2019, pp. 99-103. 

Review of Reingard M. Nischik, The English Short Story in Canada: From the Dawn of Modernism to the 2013 Nobel Prize. University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 88, no. 3, Summer 2019, pp. 147-49.