Patricia Smart

Chancellor’s Professor Emerita

Degrees:B.A. (Toronto), M.A. (Laval), Ph.D. (Queen’s)
Phone:(613) 232-3063
Email:pat.smart@carleton.ca

Research Interests

  • Quebec women’s autobiography
  • Quebec women’s writing and feminist criticism
  • Quebec cultural history

Books

Claire Martin, Dans un gant de fer (critical edition by Patricia Smart), Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal (Collection «Bibliothèque du Nouveau Monde»), 2005.

Les Femmes du Refus global, Éditions du Boréal, 1998 (finalist, Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction in French).

Refus global: genèse et métamorphoses d’un mythe fondateur, Les Grandes Conférences Desjardins, McGill University, 1998.

Seven Women Who Dared To Be Different: The Women Artists of Quebec’s Automatist Movement, Florence Bird Annual Lecture in Women’s Studies, Carleton University, 1997.

Writing in the Father’s House: the Emergence of the Feminine in the Quebec Literary Tradition (translation by the author),University of Toronto Press, 1991 (Gabrielle Roy Award).

Ecrire dans la maison du Père:  l’émergence du féminin dans la tradition littéraire du Québec. Montréal, Editions Québec/Amérique (Collection “Littérature d’Amérique”), 1988 (Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction in French).

Hubert Aquin, agent double:  La dialectique de l’art et du pays dans “Prochain Episode” et “Trou de mémoire”, Montreal, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal (Collection “Lignes québécoises”), 1973.

Language, Culture and Values in Canada at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century (A. Lapierre, P. Smart & P. Savard, eds.), International Council of Canadian Studies and Carleton University Press, 1996.

The Diary of André Laurendeau (edited, translated and with an introduction by P. Smart).  James Lorimer & Co., 1991 (Finalist, Governor General’s Award for translation)