About
Gail’s teaching and research interests include Canadian social and cultural history, the histories of Indigenous peoples in Canada and settler colonialism, the history of childhood, the history of education, and histories of print culture.
Education and credentials
- PhD, British Columbia
- MLS, British Columbia
- MA, Dominican
- BA, British Columbia
Research summary
Her current research explores the intersection of children’s print culture and media with the history of storytelling and children’s programming in public libraries, focusing on complex and conflicted ideas about the relationship between Indigeneity, nature, modernity and national identity
Publications and other research outputs
She is the co-author with Judith Saltman of Picturing Canada: A History of Canadian Children's Illustrated Books and Publishing (University of Toronto Press, 2010). Publications include “Reading Canadian: Children and National Literature in the 1920s,” in Children and Cultural Memory in the Texts of Childhood (Routledge, 2014), and “‘The Picturesqueness of His Accent and Speech’: Methodist Missionary Narratives and William Henry Pierce’s Autobiography,” in Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples: Representing Religion at Home and Abroad (University of Toronto Press, 2005).