Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been featuring our four keynote speakers who will be speaking at our L.M. Montgomery and Gender conference starting tomorrow, June 24th at the University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown. Today the LMMI features one of the conferences coordinators and our Visiting Scholar, Laura Robinson.
Last week, the LMMI blog featured two of our four Keynote speakers, Elizabeth Epperly and Jane Urquhart. This week features scholar and author, Mavis Reimer.
Earlier this week, we featured the first of our four Keynote Speakers series, Elizabeth Epperly. Today, we're thrilled to introduce, Jane Urquhart. Next week the LMMI presents: Mavis Reimer and Laura Robinson.
The LMMI's upcoming biennial conference, L.M. Montgomery and Gender June 23rd to 26th, is only a few short weeks away. We are excited to have four keynote speakers: Elizabeth Epperly, Mavis Reimer, Laura Robinson, and Jane Urquhart. In anticipation of the conference, over the next two weeks, the LMMI blog will feature one of our four speakers.
It is with deep sadness that we share the news that longtime supporter of the L.M. Montgomery Institue and Friends of the L.M. Montgomery Institute, Christy Woster, passed away suddenly on April 29, 2016.
Christy's passion for the life and work of Montgomery was so infectious that her two daughters, Emily and Anne, and her mother, Penny--plus her faithful service dog, Rusty--would join her at the conference.
Three Questions for LMMI’s New Chair, Philip Smith with Melanie J. Fishbane
Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 13:41
The L.M. Montgomery Institute has a new Chair, Dr. Philip Smith, Professor of Psychology at the University of Prince Edward Island. I asked him a few questions about what he hopes to achieve and what connects him to Montgomery and her work. What becomes clear is a person who adores the popular Charlottetown productions and has great plans for the LMMI.
From Anne’s initial iconic and heartrending cry in Anne of Green Gables—“You don’t want me because I’m not a boy”—to the pressure on young men to join the war effort in Rilla of Ingleside, and from the houseful of supportive co-eds in Anne of the Island to the tyrannical grandmother in Jane of Lantern Hill, Lucy Maud Montgomery’s work highlights gender roles: how formative and deterministic they seem, and yet
The L.M. Montgomery Institute has a new Chair, Dr. Philip Smith, Professor of Psychology at the University of Prince Edward Island. I asked him a few questions about what he hopes to achieve and what connects him to Montgomery and her work. What becomes clear is a person who adores the popular Charlottetown productions and has great plans for the LMMI.
