Glenwood Irons

Department of Applied Language Studies

Office: MC A231
Tel.: (905) 688-5550 ext.3371
Internet: girons@spartan.ac.brocku.ca

• ($500.00) Research on Women Detectives, (Fall 1993).

• ($500.00) Paper presentation at Jagellonian University (April, 1993).

• ($3,800.00) Brock Leave/Non-Leave: Research on French/English Phonetics (Fall, 1993).
• ($4,350.00) Brock University Leave/Non-Leave Grant: Comparative Phonetics, January 1994.
• ($800.00) Office of the Dean of Humanities/Associate Vice-President, Academic: Meeting in Morocco, April 1994.

• (ed.) Gender, Language, and Myth: Essays on Popular Narrative, University of Toronto Press, May 1992, 318 pages.
• with S. Paribakht, (eds.) Make Changes Make a Difference: Selected papers from TESL '91, Edition Soleil Press, Fall 1992, 210 pages.

"New Women Detectives: G is for Gender Bending," Gender, Language and Myth: Essays on Popular Narrative, G. Irons (ed.), University of Toronto Press, May 1992.

• Reader for essay submitted to Post Modern Culture. Title of essay: "Surveillance Frontier: Voyaging West with Mark Twain and the Crew of the Starship Enterprise."
• Reader for essay submitted to Mosaic. Title of essay: "A Psychoanalytic Approach to Mystery and Suspense: Freud's Theory of Jokes."
• External evaluator for sabbatical application of Kathleen Klein, Chair of English and Women's Studies, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven.

• "Popular Narrative: Opening up a Canon of Worms," The Canon and Marginality Conference, SUNY/Binghamton, May 2-3, 1991.
• "Sara Paretsky's New Boiled Fantasies for Women," 20th Century Literature Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, February 27-28, 1992.
• "On the Periphery of the Dominant Culture," Old World Regionalism versus New World Domination, SUNY/Binghamton, April 24-25, 1992.
• "Popular Fiction and the Woman Detective," Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland, 1992.