AustLit

'Donna Coates is an associate professor at the University of Calgary, is a long-term member of the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies, and has served on the editorial board of Antipodes. She has published many articles on the topic of war, especially women in war, a field that she pioneered in the national literatures of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. She has taught and lectured frequently world-wide and has visited Australia many times. Donna also serves as the primary editor of the seven-volume Women and War (History of Feminism) series published by Routledge in 2020 and edited Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre, published in 2015 with the University of Calgary Press. She coedited Canada and the Theatre of War, volume 1 (2008) and volume 2 (2010), with Sherrill Grace. Her publications also include two books coauthored with George Melnyk: Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature (2009) and Writing Alberta: Building on a Literature Identity (2017). Donna is currently completing a book on Australian women's war fictions.' (Introduction)