Coral Ann Howells Editor & Author

Coral Ann Howells is Professor Emerita at the University of Reading and is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Her books include Private and Fictional Words, Margaret Atwood (winner of the Margaret Atwood Society Best Book Award in 1997), Alice Munro (1998), and Contemporary Canadian Women's Fiction: Refiguring Identities (2003). She is co-editor of Margaret Atwood: The Shape-Shifter (2000) and editor of Where are the Voices Coming From? Canadian Culture and the Legacies of History (2004). She is former President of the British Association of Canadian Studies and has been associate editor of the International Journal of Canadian Studies. She has lectured extensively on Margaret Atwood and Canadian women's fiction in the UK, Europe, Australia, Canada, USA, and India.