Alison Conway

Alison Conway PhD is a Professor in the English and Cultural Studies and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies departments at the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of British Columbia Okanagan. She also serves as Associate Dean, Research, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and is a graduate student supervisor.

Degrees: PhD (University of California, Berkeley, 1994), MA (York University, 1988), BA (UBC, 1987).

Her research focuses on the literary and cultural history of the long eighteenth century in Britain, narrative studies, and gender and sexuality theory. She has contributed to interdisciplinary fields through co-edited works like Mind, Body, Motion, Matter: Eighteenth-Century French and Literary Perspectives and Imagining Religious Toleration: A Literary History of an Idea, 1660-1830, and her blog Fit is a Feminist Issue explores intersections of sport, feminism, and politics.

Scientific and Institutional Recognition:

• SSHRC Insight Grant (2015-19)
• SSHRC Connections Grant (2016-17)
• Western’s Faculty Scholar Award (2015)
• Graham and Gale Wright Distinguished Scholar Award (2012)
• Huntington Library Fellowships (1999, 2012)
• Multiple teaching and research awards (1999-2019)

She has held leadership roles such as Past President of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and currently serves as a Trustee for the Women’s Caucus of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Her work is editorially supported by journals like Eighteenth-Century Fiction and Eighteenth-Century Studies.