THOMAS B. FRIEDMAN
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B.A. (English)—British Columbia

M.A. (English)—British Columbia

Ph.D. (English)—Toronto

Assistant Professor

Department of English & Modern Languages

Thompson Rivers University

Kamloops, British Columbia CANADA

Office: AE 197

Phone: 250-371-5976

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Courses

Fall 2008/Winter 2009 Course Information

Canadian Literature Information

Atwood Society's Margaret Atwood Site Updated: 20 June 2008

Michael Ondaatje Information Updated: 12 February 1999 (Under Construction)

Michael Ondaatje Bibliography Updated: 1 March 1999
(Under Construction)

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Research Interests

I have been teaching literature and composition at the University College of the Cariboo / Thompson Rivers University since 1993.

My area of specialization is 19^th, 20^th and 21^st Century Canadian poetry and fiction.

I am married to Dr. Cynthia M. Friedman, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Thompson Rivers University.

Please visit her website at faculty.tru.ca/cross.

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The University of British Columbia

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The University of Toronto

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Research

My current research interests:

• Geography and national identity as expressed in Canadian literary works
• Authenticity and the status of fictional worlds
• Historical representation in Canadian literature
• The myth of United Empire Loyalism and William Kirby's The Golden Dog
• The trickster in Canadian literature
• 19^th Century occasional poetry and its relation to the Canadian canon
• Canadian Art
• Margaret Atwood and Charles Pachter’s livres d’artiste.
• Michael Ondaatje
• Robert Kroetsch
• Timothy Findley—particularly his 1999 novel Pilgrim

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