Amy Tector

Contract Instructor

Degrees:B.A. (Acadia University), M.A. (University of Western Ontario), Ph.D. (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Phone:613-520-2828

Background:
Amy Tector has worked as an archivist at Library and Archives Canada and for the United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, Netherlands. She holds a PhD in Canadian Literature from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Research Interests:

  • Archival Metadata
  • Open Government
  • Photography as archival record
  • Disability studies in literature
  • Canadian literature of the First World War

Recent Publications:

“Mothers, Lovers, Nurses: Representations of Women in Novels of the First World War.” In Canadian and Newfoundland Women and the First World War. Eds. Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw. UBC Press. 2012.

“Healing Landscapes and Evolving Nationalism in Interwar Canadian Middlebrow Fiction of First World War.” In The Masculine Middlebrow 1880-1950: What Mr Miniver Read. Ed. Kate MacDonald, Palgrave-Macmillan. 2012.

Exhibition Review of “Painting the Rocks: The Loss of Old Sydney.” Mounted at the Museum Sydney, 7 August- 28 November, 2010. Archivaria 71, 153-155.