Roderick McGillis

Roderick McGillis grew up in a small town in the Ottawa Valley. He is now a retired Professor of English, having taught at the University of Calgary for thirty-eight years. He is the author of five books: the novel, Les Pieds Devant (2007), the award winning The Nimble Reader: Literary Theory and Children's Literature (1996), A Little Princess: Gender and Empire (1996), He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western (2009), and Around the Block; or the Tricks of Memory (2021). He has...See more

Roderick McGillis grew up in a small town in the Ottawa Valley. He is now a retired Professor of English, having taught at the University of Calgary for thirty-eight years. He is the author of five books: the novel, Les Pieds Devant (2007), the award winning The Nimble Reader: Literary Theory and Children's Literature (1996), A Little Princess: Gender and Empire (1996), He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western (2009), and Around the Block; or the Tricks of Memory (2021). He has edited or co-edited another ten books. In 1997, he received the Anne Devereaux Jordan Award for distinguished service to Children's Literature, and in 2002 he received the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. That same year, 2002, he received President's Circle Award for Excellence in Research and Creativity, the University of Calgary. He has been President of the Children's Literature Association, and he served as editor of that Association's journal (ChLA Quarterly) for four years. See less