Researcher
Jennifer Koopman
Department of Humanities
Faculty
Expertise
Jennifer Koopman continues her research on the Scottish Romantic writer George MacDonald. In August 2014, she presented, at Oxford University’s conference “Informing the Inklings: George MacDonald and the Victorian Roots of Modern Fantasy,” her paper “Romanticism’s ‘Darker and More Evil Forms’: How Phantastes Reworks Shelley’s ‘Alastor.'”
She also continues her work as an editor for the George MacDonald Society, producing, this year, volume 75 (2015) of Orts: The Newsletter of the George MacDonald Society.
Publications
- 鈥淕othic Degeneration and Romantic聽Rebirth in Donal Grant.鈥 Rethinking George MacDonald: Contexts and聽Contemporaries. Eds. Chris MacLaughlin, John Pazdziora, and Ginger Stelle. Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2013.
Education
- PhD, 2007, McGill University
- MA, 1999, Queen’s University
- BA, 1998, Simon Fraser University