Credits

Yoshiko Akamatsu, Notre Dame Seishin University, Okayama, Japan, publishes articles on Montgomery’s works in English and Japanese, most recently in L.M. Montgomery in Conversation about Children and Childhood(s) (2022).

Lisa Bennett, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and English at Flinders University, specializes in the Viking Age, genre fiction, and creative practice, and she is the author of Writing Bestsellers: Love, Money and Creative Practice (with Kim Wilkins, 2021).

Claire E. Campbell is an environmental historian writing about the shore from away, as with “‘A window looking seaward’: Finding Environmental History in the Writing of L.M. Montgomery,” in The Greater Gulf: Essays on the Environmental History of the Gulf of St. Lawrence (2020).

Kylie Cardell teaches English and Creative Writing at Flinders University; her research focuses on autobiography studies, and she is the editor (with Kate Douglas) of Telling Tales: Autobiography of Childhood and Youth (2015).

Mary Beth Cavert, an independent scholar specializing in the kinship and friendship ties of L.M. Montgomery, is publisher of The Shining Scroll.

Doreley Coll is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Prince Edward Island.

Carolyn Strom Collins is an author and independent researcher. She is the editor of Anne of Green Gables: The Original Manuscript (Nimbus, 2019) and founder of the L.M. Montgomery Literary Society and the Friends of the L.M. Montgomery Institute.

Elizabeth R. Epperly, Professor Emerita of English, U.P.E.I., is founder of the L.M. Montgomery Institute and was the first woman President of U.P.E.I.

Susan Lynn Erdmann is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway.

Sarah Freeburn is an undergraduate student in Diversity and Social Justice at the University of Prince Edward Island. She serves as a Student Assistant at the Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies.

Ásta Gísladóttir, University of Iceland, Reykjavik.

Vappu Kannas is a Finnish independent scholar and author who has published two novels and a poetry book as well as several articles on L. M. Montgomery.. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Helsinki and her dissertation examines Montgomery's life-writing.

Laura Leden has a Ph.D. in translation studies and children's literature and recently published an article on the Swedish Emily translations in the Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies.

Irina Levchenko is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Vienna and a literary translator.

Jennifer H. Litster is an independent Montgomery scholar in Scotland.

Edward MacDonald, Department of History and Classics, University of Prince Edward Island, specializes in the social and cultural history of his native province, where his tenth book, The Summer Trade: A History of Tourism on Prince Edward Island (co-authored with Alan MacEachern) was released in March 2022.

Josh MacFadyen is a Canada Research Chair in Geospatial Humanities and an Associate Professor in the Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture program at the University of Prince Edward Island.

Kate Macdonald Butler is the President of the Heirs of L.M. Montgomery, Inc.

Alan MacEachern is a Professor of History at the University of Western Ontario. He is the co-author of the recently published The Summer Trade: A History of Tourism on Prince Edward Island, and he is currently writing a history based on the diary of Myrtle Webb, who lived in Green Gables for four decades—even after it was expropriated to become part of P.E.I. National Park.

Fraser McCallum, M.P.R., is a Charlottetown-based writer, musician, and communications professional. His work centres on local and national arts, heritage, cultural organizations, including Parks Canada and for many years, he was publicist for the Confederation Centre Art Gallery/The Charlottetown Festival, home to the long-running Anne of Green Gables—The Musical^TM.

Eri Muraoka, grand-daughter of Hanako Muraoka and author of Anne's Cradle: The Life & Works of Hanako Muraoka, Japanese Translator of Anne of Green Gables, translated by Cathy Hirano, Nimbus Publishing, 2021.

Kateryna Nikolenko is a Ph.D. candidate at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine.

Olga Nikolenko, Professor, Chair of World Literatures Department at Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, Ukraine.

Idette Noomé lectures in English language, literature (including Montgomery), and editing in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria (South Africa), and her essay "The Nature of the Beast: Pets and People in L.M. Montgomery’s Fiction" was included in L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s) (2018).

Barbara Gawronska Pettersson is Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway.

Dorota Pielorz is Faculty of Polish Studies at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.

Laura Robinson is the Dean of Arts and Professor of English and Theatre/Women’s and Gender Studies at Acadia University. With E. Holly Pike, she edited the volume of essays L.M. Montgomery and Gender (McGill-Queen's University Press 2021).

Sam Roodi is a Professor of Communications at Fanshawe College.

Catherine Sheldrick Ross, R.S.C., Professor Emerita at Western University was a renowned scholar of library science and reading, whose research explored pleasure reading, re-reading, and libraries.

Sigríður Lára Sigurjónsdóttir is a Professor of Icelandic Linguistics, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, in the School of Humanities, University of Iceland, Reykjavík.

Bonnie Tulloch, Ph.D. candidate, School of Information, University of British Columbia, has written several research papers related to Anne of Green Gables, one of which was recently published in the Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies. 

Åsa Warnqvist is Research Manager and Director of the Swedish Institute for Children’s Books. Her research focuses on L.M. Montgomery’s success in Sweden, the Swedish children’s book market, gender studies, and normativity studies.

Betsy Watkins is an independent fashion historian whose work is displayed in the Kenosha Civil War Museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin and the Cincinnati History Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Emily Woster is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, past Visiting Scholar at the L.M. Montgomery Institute, and researcher of Montgomery’s reading and life writing.