Robert Thacker

ProfessorRobert Thacker, who teaches in the Canadian Studies program as well as theEnglish department, specializes in Canadian literature in English withparticular interest in Canada-U.S. literary comparisons, western writing, WillaCather, and Alice Munro. His books include TheGreat Prairie Fact and Literary Imagination, Alice Munro: Writing HerLives, and several editedvolumes on Willa Cather, the West, and Alice Munro. Recent publications includean essay on Atwood, Munro, and other women writers for The Cambridge Historyof Canadian Literature and essays on Cather and Munro in variouscollections. From 1994-2002 Thacker edited The American Review of CanadianStudies.